The need to redistrict: BG City Council advocates for voices

The need to redistrict: BG City Council advocates for voices

Bowling Green (BG) is in the process of redistricting to account for large population influxes in various wards.  BG currently has four wards, each represented by its own BG City Council member. Because the wards don’t have an equal population, this leads to some community members being more represented than others. Due to college students being in town for around nine months of the year, BG has a deviation of 29% in the population, which is wel…