County Board considers addition of two seats tonight A Green Bay alderman questions part of the plan By Jeff Decker News-Chronicle The Brown County Board will consider tonight whether to expand from 24 to 26 members to accommodate changes in the area's population. If the board approves the plan with few changes, the concept will be sent to municipal leaders who must draw new wards that respect the supervisory boundaries set by the County Board. However, if the panel wants major changes - such as adding or eliminating districts - it will have to schedule a new meeting and public hearing on the issue by June 1, according to state statutes. Redistricting occurs every 10 years to accommodate population shifts and growth, as measured by the U.S. Census. Just one boundary change has been examined for population balance since Monday, county planner Mike Parmentier said. Sup. Guy Zima questioned new district lines that would place nearly 1,000 of his constituents in Sup. Harold Kaye's district and moved about the same number from Kaye's district to Zima's. Under the plan, the western border of Zima's district, which runs mostly along 12th Avenue, would instead push west to 15th Avenue, while Kaye's district would expand to pick up houses between Mason and Dousman streets west of 12th Avenue, in addition to several other small changes. "They took about 950 people of my district and put them in his district, and took the same number from his district and put them into mine," Zima said. "Why have 1,800 people go to new polling places unnecessarily?" Kaye, who said the switch might give him 19 more constituents, said he needs to look at the maps this morning before he would commit to the plan. He added that he wants to represent the same neighborhoods he grew up in, and in which he built his home in 1957. "These are people I was raised with, these are friends," he said. FYI: A public hearing concerning redistricting in Brown County begins at 7 p.m. today in the legislative room, Green Bay City Hall, 100 N. Jefferson St. The Brown County Board will vote on the plan as part of its regularly scheduled 7:30 p.m. meeting.