Since a sliver of our coverage area includes easternmost portions of the City of Marietta, here’s a public notice about upcoming hearings on new city council and school board boundaries, with the first coming on Wednesday:
“The City of Marietta has proposed a new ward political boundary map that will determine which ward the citizens of Marietta will cast their vote in future elections. The proposed map is titled “Proposed Wards School and Parks Draft Option 2”. All concerned citizens are invited to attend the two public hearings on this redistricting map which will be held at Marietta City Hall, 205 Lawrence Street in the Council Chamber on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, at 7:00 P.M. and Wednesday, October 11, 2023, at 7:00 P.M. According to Federal law, the City of Marietta is required to redraw the ward boundaries to accommodate for the shifting change in population every ten years as determined by the U.S. Decennial Census.”
Those two hearings will take place during regularly scheduled city council meetings.
A couple of notes: We’ve been reporting on redistricting feuds over Cobb county commission and school board seats. The former involves a home rule claim over maps reapportioned by the county, and the latter is in federal court over voting-rights issues.
In Georgia, municipalities draw their own electoral maps after a new Census is released. A special committee of city council and school board members has been meeting to propose the map boundaries (see larger version of above map here).
Below is the current map (larger version).
As of July 2022 (Census overview here), Marietta has an estimated population of around 62,000, with each of the seven wards on the city council and school board including around 8,700 people.
The eastern part of the city includes all of wards 6 and 7 and a portion of ward 3.
Marietta’s next elections are scheduled for 2025. All of Cobb’s other six cities, including newly incorporated Mableton, will have non-partisan city council elections on Nov. 7.
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- East Cobb News Politics & Elections page
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