What You Need to Know About................The Redistricting Commission

Currently the MLSD is split roughly into between the 7th LD district, which includes Fairchild AFB and most everything north of Highway 2, and the 9th LD, which contains the town of Medical Lake proper and stretches all the way south to Pullman. We've been well represented by those legislators on our big issues like levy equalization, and it's been great to have them representing us.

Over the Christmas break the lines were re-drawn, and now Medical Lake will be in the 6th LD. You can see all the maps on the Redistricting Commission's website here and the new 6th LD specifically here; the upshot is that we'll now Cheney, Medical Lake, Nine Mile Falls, Airway Heights, Fairchild, and parts of the northern and southern portions of Spokane will all be in the same legislative district together.

We'll be working with the District to invite the current 6th LD legislators out to Medical Lake this spring; this includes Rep. John Ahern, who is on the House Education Committee, Rep. Kevin Parker, who serves on the important Ways and Means Committee, and Senator Michael Baumgartner, who is running against Maria Cantwell for US Senate. I have every hope that they'll be just as passionate about school funding as our previous legislators were, and we look forward to working with them in the future!