Panel Calls for Waiving of $250 Fee to Submit Maps of Redistricting Plans
A Los Angeles County panel on Thursday recommended that the Board of Supervisors eliminate a $250 fee for residents to submit maps of proposed supervisorial districts during the county’s redistricting process.
The Supervisorial District Boundary Review Committee took the action after a lawyer monitoring the redistricting process said it would limit Latino participation. “Two-hundred and fifty dollars is a lot of money,” said Richard Fajardo of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. “It may not be to you and to the county, with an $11-billion budget, but it will be to people without resources.”
The panel voted to ask the supervisors to eliminate the fee and to suspend collecting the fee until the matter is resolved.
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