Hearings scheduled on new electoral maps

The New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment on Thursday announced the legislative hearing schedule seen below.

ALBANY

10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 30

Legislative Office Building

2nd Floor, Hearing Room A

BRONX

3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31

Bronx Museum of the Arts, Lower Gallery

1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street

BROOKLYN

10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1

St. Francis College

Founders Hall Auditorium

180 Remsen St.

Brooklyn Heights

MANHATTAN

10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 2

250 Broadway

Assembly Hearing Room

QUEENS

3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7

Queens Borough Hall

120-55 Queens Boulevard

Kew Gardens

LONG ISLAND

11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 9

Suffolk County Legislature

William H. Rogers Legislative Building

725 Veterans Memorial Highway

Hauppauge

SYRACUSE

3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14

Henninger High School

600 Robinson Street

ROCHESTER

10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15

Monroe County Chambers

39 West Main Street, Room 406

BUFFALO

10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 16

Buffalo City Hall

65 Niagara St.

Common Council Chambers, 13th Floor

Each hearing will be video recorded, and available for viewing at on the task force website at latfor.state.ny.us. The new Senate and Assembly district lines are also available at the same website.

Any person or organization wishing to provide written input can contact the task force by email at info@latfor.state.ny.us or by mailing to LATFOR, 250 Broadway, Suite 2100, New York, NY 10007.

The new district boundaries were drafted after the task force conducted 14 public hearings around the state, taking 55 hours of testimony from more than 375 witnesses.

"The new district lines are the result of the most open and transparent reapportionment process in decades. It is now critically important that the public throughout New York State has a variety of opportunities to voice their input on the Task Force's plan," Sen. Michael F. Nozzolio, task force co-chairman, said in a statement. "Public hearings will be held in every region across the State, and interested individuals and groups are encouraged to provide the Task Force with written email and direct mail comments."

"Our proposal is responsive to the many individuals across the State who offered oral or written testimony to the Task Force. In addition, we took into consideration and incorporated many elements of proposals submitted in map form by numerous voting rights and good government groups, private citizens and public officials," said Assemb. John McEneny. "We are grateful to them all for helping us with this Constitutionally-mandated task and look forward to further interaction and suggestions as we make our way across the state a second time to receive more input still."