EWEB’s five commissioners earlier this month voted to elect John Brown as president of the Board and Sonya Carlson as vice president.
President Brown, first elected to the Board in 2007, represents Wards 4 and 5.
Vice President Carlson joined the Board in 2017, and represents Wards 6 and 7.
The Board also made a series of liaison appointments for the New Year to help coordinate EWEB policy work with other public agencies. Below are the commissioner liaison appointments for 2022:
Commissioners were also appointed to internal EWEB liaison assignments:
Taking effect this year are new ward boundaries that impact all elected city officials, including EWEB commissioners. The city’s charter requires officials to evaluate and update council wards at least once every 10 years, coinciding with the decennial U.S. Census, to make sure population between the eight regions is roughly even.
City staff drew the new boundaries to make population between wards as even as possible, grouping wards that had gained more and less population and moving areas between them.
Evenly dividing the city population after the Census among the eight wards would result in wards of 22,083 residents. As part of the new boundaries, all wards are within 1% of that target.
The map makes small shifts between wards, moving:
There's a detailed map of the changes available at bit.ly/Eugene-ward-boundary-changes.
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