In 1968, the board adopted a county charter and a reapportionment plan that created the county legislature and executive.
Negotiations over important bills are further complicated by the need to agree on a reapportionment plan ordered by the Justice Department.
Due to the state's reapportionment plan, his seat was eliminated later that same year.
The Legislature is still far from devising its reapportionment plans.
The upcoming negotiations over reapportionment plans could produce a breakthrough.
He also drew a reapportionment plan that provided for 25% (two of eight) majority black districts on the State Board of Education.
Mr. Cuomo has threatened to veto the legislature's reapportionment plans unless they are accompanied by election reforms.
The reapportionment plan that resulted from Georgia's political process merited this Court's approbation, not its condemnation.
He cited that due to the city's districts not being contiguous and compact, the reapportionment plan will be subject to court challenges.
The reapportionment plan is all but assured of passage in the Legislature next week since it is the legislative leadership's own plan.