Voters roundly reject controversial Deschutes County district map

| Jakob Salao | Central Oregon Daily |

BEND, Ore. — Deschutes County voters were roundly rejecting a proposed map that would have split the county into five commissioner districts. The result means the voters will choose commissioners on the new five-person board the same way they do now: At large.

Supporters say it provides better representation to the rural areas of the county.

“You have one commissioner that only has to really concentrate on 40,000 people instead of five commissioners, each concentrating on the whole county of 200,000 people,” Sisters City Councilor Michael Preehim said.