No Changes Planned for Westfield's Wards
Ward commission to meet on Sept. 1 in Elizabeth.
The redistricting of Westfield’s four Town Council wards will likely be completed on Sept. 1. Union County Board of Elections Administrator Dennis Kobitz said that the population numbers for the town’s four wards fall into the 10-percent deviation that is set under state law. He said he will be recommending to the town’s ward commission that the lines remain the same for the next 10 years. “I am recommending not touching Westfield,” Kobitz said. “But I do not speak for the commissioners. They can override me and still re-ward.” State law requires the redrawing of Town Council district lines every 10 years following the Census. The drawing of the ward lines comes after the redrawing of state legislative districts and before the redrawing of…
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