Board of Commissioners

AGENDA ITEM REPORT

Subject: Hubbard County Redistricting 2022

Meeting: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting - 05 Apr 2022
Department: Administration
Staff Contact: Jeff Cadwell, County Administrator

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Congressional, legislative and local districts have been determined. The county now has until April
26 to approve and certify now commissioner districts for Hubbard County. Notice has been posted in
the official newspaper and on the county website that the deadline for the public to submit proposals
was March 30, 2022. Commissioners will be reviewing proposals at both the April 5, 2022 board
meeting and at the April 12, board worksession before finally voting to approve a redistricting plan on
April 19, 2022.

POLICY IMPLICATIONS:
6.3 Is county commissioner redistricting required?
It is sometimes required that county commissioner districts go through the redistricting process.
Even if it is not required, the county board may also choose to redistrict. Either way, the redistricting
of commissioner districts cannot be completed until after all precincts are reestablished. Below is
information about evaluating whether redistricting is required. The County Commissioner
Redistricting section has more details about the process of redistricting county commissioner
districts.

After the certification of the decennial census, M.S. 375.025, subd.1 specifies that each county must
redistrict county commissioner districts in any of these cases:
1. Any county commissioner district boundaries are no longer on precinct or ward boundaries; or
2. Any county commissioner district is no longer contiguous; or
3. Any county commissioner district varies in population more than ten percent (10%) from the
average of all districts in the county, unless the result forces a voting precinct to be split, or
4. A majority of the least populous districts contain less than a majority of the population of the
county; or
5. Commissioner districts are not as equal in population as possible (considering that they must be
compact and as regular in form as practicable while bounded by town, municipal, ward, or precinct
boundaries)

FINDINGS OF FACT:
1.4.1 County
County governments must redistrict county commissioner districts after every federal census to meet
the requirements in M.S. 204B.135. This redistricting may take the form of:
1. reestablishing existing county commissioner districts, if they currently meet all statutory
requirements, or
2. drawing new county commissioner districts, to make them conform to the statutes.

County commissioner district redistricting must occur no later than 80 days after state legislative and
congressional redistricting and after precincts are redistricted or reestablished by cities and
townships. Counties responsible for unorganized territories must also redistrict or reestablish
precinct boundaries in those areas.

A voter may apply to a district court for a court order to require county redistricting or to revise the
county’s redistricting plan. One option for the court is to appoint a redistricting commission, removing
redistricting authority from the county board. (M.S. 375.025)

ATTACHED DOCUMENTS:
Current
Plan 1
Plan 2
Plan 3
Plan 4
Redistricting_Blank

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2020 Farden P-2
107
(▲107)

Census
Fern Rockwood Helga Farden P-1
285 (▲15) 390 (▼-40) 1648 1038 (▼-99)
(▲247)

Lake Hattie Schoolcraft

180 (▼-22) Guthrie
136 (▲33) Hart Lake P-1 Hart Lake P-2
603 (▲48)
397 (▼-112) 146 (▲146)

Laporte
134 (▲23)
Lake Alice Lake George Lakeport P-2
Hendrickson
114 (▲21) 389 (▲11) 65 (▲65)
307 (▼-7) Lakeport P-1
775 (▼-70)

Steamboat
River P-2
4 (▲4)

Clover Clay Thorpe Steamboat

125 (▼-29) 76 (▲7) 39 (▼-10) River P-1
136 (▲10)

¯ Arago
606 (▼-1)
Lake Emma
965 (▼-20)
Mantrap
522 (▲3)
Akeley
559 (▲8)

Akeley City
404 (▼-28)

Current Disticts Nevis City

Todd P-1 377 (▼-13)
D1 1313 (▼-13) Henrietta
1514 (▼-128) Nevis White Oak
D2 PRC P-2
1143 (▲134) 486 (▲11)
PRC P-1 2259 (▲321)
D3 1883 (▲112)
Todd P-2
151 (▲84)
D4
D5 Straight
River Hubbard Crow
Wing Lake Badoura
788 (▲62) 770 (▼-14) 152 (▲24)
358 (▲26)

0 1.5 3 6 9 12
Miles

Current Districts
District # of Precincts Population Population Deviation Deviation % 5% Rule
Total: 21,344 Target: 4269 Under 10% Threshold: 213
D1 5 4,150 -119 -2.79% N/A
D2 3 3,802 -467 -10.94% N/A
D3 6 4,813 544 12.74% N/A
D4 13 4,091 -178 -4.17% N/A
D5 11 4,488 219 5.13% N/A
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2020 Farden P-2
107
(▲107)

Census
Fern Rockwood Helga Farden P-1
285 (▲15) 390 (▼-40) 1648 1038 (▼-99)
(▲247)

Lake Hattie Schoolcraft

180 (▼-22) Guthrie
136 (▲33) Hart Lake P-1 Hart Lake P-2
603 (▲48)
397 (▼-112) 146 (▲146)

Laporte
134 (▲23)
Lake Alice Lake George Lakeport P-2
Hendrickson
114 (▲21) 389 (▲11) 65 (▲65)
307 (▼-7) Lakeport P-1
775 (▼-70)

Steamboat
River P-2
4 (▲4)

Clover Clay Thorpe Steamboat

125 (▼-29) 76 (▲7) 39 (▼-10) River P-1
136 (▲10)

¯ Arago
606 (▼-1)
Lake Emma
965 (▼-20)
Mantrap
522 (▲3)
Akeley
559 (▲8)

Akeley City
404 (▼-28)

Plan 1 Nevis City

Todd P-1 377 (▼-13)
D1 1313 (▼-13) Henrietta
1514 (▼-128) Nevis White Oak
D2 PRC P-2
1143 (▲134) 486 (▲11)
PRC P-1 2259 (▲321)
D3 1883 (▲112)
Todd P-2
151 (▲84)
D4
D5 Straight
River Hubbard Crow
Wing Lake Badoura
788 (▲62) 770 (▼-14) 152 (▲24)
358 (▲26)

0 1.5 3 6 9 12
Miles

Plan 1
District # of Precincts Population Population Deviation Deviation % 5% Rule
Total: 21,344 Target: 4269 Under 5% Threshold: 213
D1 5 4,150 -119 -2.79% 0
D2 3 4,178 -91 -2.13% 4,142
D3 6 4,437 168 3.94% 4,142
D4 14 4,167 -102 -2.39% 76
D5 10 4,412 143 3.35% 76
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2020 Farden P-2
107
(▲107)

Census
Fern Rockwood Helga Farden P-1
285 (▲15) 390 (▼-40) 1648 1038 (▼-99)
(▲247)

Lake Hattie Schoolcraft

180 (▼-22) Guthrie
136 (▲33) Hart Lake P-1 Hart Lake P-2
603 (▲48)
397 (▼-112) 146 (▲146)

Laporte
134 (▲23)
Lake Alice Lake George Lakeport P-2
Hendrickson
114 (▲21) 389 (▲11) 65 (▲65)
307 (▼-7) Lakeport P-1
775 (▼-70)

Steamboat
River P-2
4 (▲4)

Clover Clay Thorpe Steamboat

125 (▼-29) 76 (▲7) 39 (▼-10) River P-1
136 (▲10)

¯ Arago
606 (▼-1)
Lake Emma
965 (▼-20)
Mantrap
522 (▲3)
Akeley
559 (▲8)

Akeley City
404 (▼-28)

Plan 2 Nevis City

Todd P-1 377 (▼-13)
D1 1313 (▼-13) Henrietta
1514 (▼-128) Nevis White Oak
D2 PRC P-2
1143 (▲134) 486 (▲11)
PRC P-1 2259 (▲321)
D3 1883 (▲112)
Todd P-2
151 (▲84)
D4
D5 Straight
River Hubbard Crow
Wing Lake Badoura
788 (▲62) 770 (▼-14) 152 (▲24)
358 (▲26)

0 1.5 3 6 9 12
Miles

Plan 2
District # of Precincts Population Population Deviation Deviation % 5% Rule
Total: 21,344 Target: 4269 Under 5% Threshold: 213
D1 5 4,485 216 5.06% 637
D2 5 4,003 -266 -6.23% 201
D3 6 4,478 209 4.90% 637
D4 13 4,091 -178 -4.17% 0
D5 9 4,287 18 0.42% 201
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2020 Farden P-2
107
(▲107)

Census
Fern Rockwood Helga Farden P-1
285 (▲15) 390 (▼-40) 1648 1038 (▼-99)
(▲247)

Lake Hattie Schoolcraft

180 (▼-22) Guthrie
136 (▲33) Hart Lake P-1 Hart Lake P-2
603 (▲48)
397 (▼-112) 146 (▲146)

Laporte
134 (▲23)
Lake Alice Lake George Lakeport P-2
Hendrickson
114 (▲21) 389 (▲11) 65 (▲65)
307 (▼-7) Lakeport P-1
775 (▼-70)

Steamboat
River P-2
4 (▲4)

Clover Clay Thorpe Steamboat

125 (▼-29) 76 (▲7) 39 (▼-10) River P-1
136 (▲10)

¯ Arago
606 (▼-1)
Lake Emma
965 (▼-20)
Mantrap
522 (▲3)
Akeley
559 (▲8)

Akeley City
404 (▼-28)

Plan 3 Nevis City

Todd P-1 377 (▼-13)
D1 1313 (▼-13) Henrietta
1514 (▼-128) Nevis White Oak
D2 PRC P-2
1143 (▲134) 486 (▲11)
PRC P-1 2259 (▲321)
D3 1883 (▲112)
Todd P-2
151 (▲84)
D4
D5 Straight
River Hubbard Crow
Wing Lake Badoura
788 (▲62) 770 (▼-14) 152 (▲24)
358 (▲26)

0 1.5 3 6 9 12
Miles

Plan 3
District # of Precincts Population Population Deviation Deviation % 5% Rule
Total: 21,344 Target: 4269 Under 5% Threshold: 213
D1 3 3,924 -345 -8.08% 4,744
D2 4 4,590 321 7.52% 788
D3 7 4,287 18 0.42% 6,540
D4 13 4,055 -214 -5.01% 1,008
D5 11 4,488 219 5.13% 0
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2020 Farden P-2
107
(▲107)

Census
Fern Rockwood Helga Farden P-1
285 (▲15) 390 (▼-40) 1648 1038 (▼-99)
(▲247)

Lake Hattie Schoolcraft

180 (▼-22) Guthrie
136 (▲33) Hart Lake P-1 Hart Lake P-2
603 (▲48)
397 (▼-112) 146 (▲146)

Laporte
134 (▲23)
Lake Alice Lake George Lakeport P-2
Hendrickson
114 (▲21) 389 (▲11) 65 (▲65)
307 (▼-7) Lakeport P-1
775 (▼-70)

Steamboat
River P-2
4 (▲4)

Clover Clay Thorpe Steamboat

125 (▼-29) 76 (▲7) 39 (▼-10) River P-1
136 (▲10)

¯ Arago
606 (▼-1)
Lake Emma
965 (▼-20)
Mantrap
522 (▲3)
Akeley
559 (▲8)

Akeley City
404 (▼-28)

Plan 4 Nevis City

Todd P-1 377 (▼-13)
D1 1313 (▼-13) Henrietta
1514 (▼-128) Nevis White Oak
D2 PRC P-2
1143 (▲134) 486 (▲11)
PRC P-1 2259 (▲321)
D3 1883 (▲112)
Todd P-2
151 (▲84)
D4
D5 Straight
River Hubbard Crow
Wing Lake Badoura
788 (▲62) 770 (▼-14) 152 (▲24)
358 (▲26)

0 1.5 3 6 9 12
Miles

Plan 4
District # of Precincts Population Population Deviation Deviation % 5% Rule
Total: 21,344 Target: 4269 Under 5% Threshold: 213
D1 3 3,924 -345 -8.08% 4,744
D2 4 4,590 321 7.52% 788
D3 6 4,135 -134 -3.14% 6,692
D4 14 4,207 -62 -1.45% 1,160
D5 11 4,488 219 5.13% 0
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 2020
Census Fern
285
Rockwood
390
Helga
1648
Farden P-1
1038
Farden
P-2
107

Redistricting

Lake Hart Lake

Schoolcraft Guthrie Hart Lake
Hattie P-1
136 603 P-2
180 397 146

Laporte
134 Lakeport
Lake
Lake Alice Hendrickson P-2
George
114 307 65
389 Lakeport
P-1
775
Steamboat
River P-2
4

Clover Clay Thorpe Steamboat

125 76 39 River P-1
136

Akeley
559
Arago Lake Emma Mantrap
606 965 522
Akeley
City
404
Nevis
City
Todd P-1 377
1313 PRC Henrietta White Oak
P-2 1514 486
2259 Nevis
PRC 1143
P-1 Todd
1883 P-2
151

Crow Wing
Straight Hubbard Lake Badoura
River 770 358 152
788

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