Greenwood County Commissioners held a special meeting last Friday, December 7, to further discuss redistricting. Last Monday, commissioners were presented with three map options, generated by R&S Digital Services, Inc. Those maps were divided into five districts comprised of fairly equal populations. In each of those options, the city of Eureka was split into two districts, with the northern Eureka district limited to city territory-only. Because county roads and bridges are a large part of the commissioners’ roles, the current commissioners wanted to look at an option that added more county territory into the Eureka districts.
On Friday, they were presented with a new map, and invited a representative of each major political party for input. Carol Ann Flock, the republican representative, and Cindy Pelky, the democratic representative, agreed that area was more important than equal population distribution, for the commission districts.
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