Clovis prepares for Prop 50's three-way district split

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Community members and officials from the City of Clovis were precise vocal successful their absorption to Proposition 50 starring up to the election, but present their absorption is connected preparing for the redistricting.

With Proposition 50 acceptable to alteration Central California's legislature landscape, Clovis remains 1 of the astir talked-about cities successful the state, arsenic it volition present spell from a metropolis with 1 legislature typical to being divided betwixt 3 abstracted districts.

"If you instrumentality a look astatine however those lines are drawn it truly is eliminating agrarian voices and successful speech putting leaders successful spot from metropolitan areas and they conscionable don't recognize the issues that we look successful the agrarian parts of this state," said Former Clovis Mayor and Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig.

The redistricting present puts Clovis successful a voting country mostly made up of Fresno residents.

The country of Sunnyside and Gettysburg avenues volition go the cross-section betwixt Districts 5, 20, and 21.

Mayor Pro Tem Diane Pearce worries that Clovis, and the Central Valley arsenic a whole, could endure blows to cardinal areas of economical interest, saying, "We provender the satellite here, and truthful to not person practice that genuinely understands and has lived that and understands that successful a idiosyncratic way, that truly is the challenge."

Despite disappointment successful the result of the election, Clovis Veterans Memorial District CEO and District 21 legislature campaigner Lorenzo Rios is motivated by the result, hoping it tin kickstart adjacent stronger elector turnout successful the future.

"If anything, it doubles down my tendency to serve, and service my assemblage well, and I promote each idiosyncratic not to beryllium disheartened, but to beryllium encouraged arsenic to wherefore elections matter," Rios said.

Mayor Pro Tem Pearce emphasized Clovis is already looking ahead, saying, "We are gonna support putting guardant incredibly talented and talented candidates, we're gonna combat hard for them,those of america astatine little levels of authorities are gonna redouble our efforts to beryllium the dependable of the communities we serve."

Despite the disappointment with the result of the election, nary of the officials we spoke with mentioned immoderate concerns with however the predetermination was run.

They're present anxious to spot however the 3 districts volition work.