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Czarny said “One of the things I couldn’t believe he said today was that the commissioners didn’t have to be at the public hearings. So what, we’re just going to put up a microphone and let people talk and hope somebody listens to them later.”

“What I’m not happy with is the refusal to even consider moving this process just two weeks past the election day,” he said…“That 90 days, that three months, we are trying to do this in 21 days,” Czarny said. https://cnycentral.com/news/local/debate-over-onondaga-county-legislative-districts-continues-between-two-commissioners

But Czarny says he should be, and will be engaged in all hearings. “I think all of the commissioners should be engaged. I couldn’t believe he [Hulslander] said that the commissioners shouldn’t be at the public hearings. So, we’re just going to put up a microphone, tell people to talk, and hope that somebody listensContinue reading “Onondaga County Commission To Begin Using New Census Data To Redraw Legislative District Maps – WAER”

“Public comment should come from Onondaga County residents, shouldn’t come outside of the county. I have no problem making sure the comments that make public record only have the correct information,” said Czarny. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2021/10/19/onondaga-county-redistricting-commission-meets

“I’m going to let them answer why they’re doing this. I’m going to tell you what we should do, and what we should do is take time and hear from the public about what they want in the next 10 years,… change this map so that it’s better for the public,” https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2021/10/18/redistricting-off-to-a-rocky-start-in-onondaga-county-

“(At the first meeting)… Czarny pushed to move the public hearings. He said there is no time for elections commissioners, who are active members of the commission, to attend hearings, analyze data and draw maps in the middle of busy local elections.” https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2021/10/in-surprising-turn-gop-leader-calls-current-onondaga-county-district-boundaries-a-mistake.html

Czarny raised a number of concerns at the meeting. He wants the population shifts of each town, district and ward from the 2020 Census. He wants to know who is going to draw the maps and if all the members will have access to the software. He said meeting now is taking time away fromContinue reading “Democrats outraged at Onondaga County redistricting, Republicans say they’re overreacting – WRVO”

“Mr. Knapp said none of this would happen before the election,” Czarny said.”Most of the work will be done after election day,” Knapp told WAER News on Oct 5.”I envision this going well into November, past the November 2nd election.”But with committee meetings and public hearings packed into less than three weeks, Czarny is callingContinue reading “First Public Hearings Set As Onondaga County’s Redistricting Commission Rushes To Redraw District Maps Before Election Day – WAER”

“The public should be involved in the drawing of these maps. And the fact that they’re putting these meetings, all of them, before the election — taking time and energy from the two elections commissioners — in a hope to push this map through, before the election, is tantamount to election interference,” Czarny argued https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2021/10/13/democrats-argue-onondaga-county-redistricting-process-is-being-rushed