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LAS CRUCES - City councilors reviewed four proposals during a Monday work session for redrawing council districts and agreed on two finalists to be voted on ...

As a result, District 5 and District 6 must shrink and the other districts must grow to even out representation citywide and ensure a similar number of people reside in each district. "I'm one of the newest people up here ... - Radically changes districts 1 and 4. District 2 Councilor Tessa Abeyta also supported Concept J because "it keeps a lot of those core areas." As a result, the ideal population for each of the six city council districts is 18,564, though Poss said a deviation of 5 percent above or below that number was permissible by state law. [Interior Department renames southern New Mexico peak which previously bore Indigenous slur](https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/new-mexico/2022/09/12/new-mexico-geographic-features-with-indigenous-slur-get-new-names/66913967007/) [Game and Fish Department continues search for tiger missing in New Mexico](https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/new-mexico/2022/09/10/new-mexico-game-and-fish-department-continues-search-for-missing-tiger/69437405007/) [A new mosquito is stalking New Mexico. Bencomo said she opposed Concept K because it would give her district "an entirely new identity" and shape. In the last decade, districts 5 and 6 exploded in population when compared with the other four districts. Hispanics make up 55.6 percent of the city's adult population. Each of the six councilors present asked questions and gave their preferred picks. Concept K was the favorite of the ad hoc committee, though it radically changes the shapes of districts 1 and 4. When discussion concluded, the council had agreed to decide between two finalists at a future meeting, map concepts named J and K.