City of Topeka leaders are meeting tonight to discuss drawing new city council districts. Each district in the city needs to have around 14,000 people in it. Two city districts don’t have enough to meet that number at the moment and three of them have too many. Districts 1 and 2 in Topeka each need an additional 600 people to balance out the map. District 1 Councilwoman Karen Hiller says redistricting is about more than the numbers. “That redistricting commission looks at the numbers but they also look at what are the natural boundaries,” Hiller said. “Whether it’s the river or the interstate or neighborhood areas that are contiguous that we want to keep together if we can.”
Source: KSNT News
