Patricia R. Doxsey is reporting for the Daily Freeman Ulster County lawmakers are preparing to call on the county’s Commission on Reapportionment to reconvene and create a district map that would meet legal requirements. Legislator Brian Cahill has introduced a resolution for consideration this month asking that the commission meet “as soon as practicable” to redraw a legislative district map to meet the criteria under state and federal law. The measure is cosponsored by seven other legislators. The resolution will be considered by the Legislature’s Ways and Means Committee when it meets on November 10. If approved, it will go to the full Legislature for consideration on November 15. But even if the resolution is approved, it will likely have no effect, since the Legislature lacks the ability to compel the commission to meet. And commission members have already decided that short of a court order they will not meet to create a new map, even though the one they submitted to the Board of Elections does not comport with state law. The commission created the map and submitted a final plan to the county Board of Elections in July. However, in September, County Attorney Clinton Johnson notified the commission that the map was illegal because it did not conform with the size parameters required by law. Johnson directed the commission to reconvene and redo the map to correct the error, but commission members are of the opinion that they cannot redraw the map without a court order directing them to do so. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.