Lawmakers passed a bill March 24 that authorizes district elections for the metropolitan utilities district (MUD) board of directors.<\/p>\n
LB1014, introduced by Omaha Sen. John Murante, authorizes the MUD board of directors to divide the district\u2019s territory into seven election subdivisions.<\/p>\n
The board has until Feb. 1, 2016, to establish districts composed of substantially equal population and compact and contiguous territory and will assign each member a numbered subdivision for the remainder of their current term of office.<\/p>\n
Assignments will be made so as to stagger elections to the new districts until 2023. The board must redistrict following each federal decennial census.<\/p>\n
The bill passed on a 47-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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