It has been well over ten years since the United Suffolk Sheep Association has reviewed the four USSA districts for balance of membership, as noted in the USSA bylaws:
“To provide equal representation for all members, each district shall have approximately the same average number of voting members represented by each Director. The Directors shall periodically and not less than every 5 years, review and revise each district by moving one or more states to contiguous districts in order to equalize membership representation in each district.”
The transition over the next couple years will not look like our normal elections in effort to rebalance director representation by district. Bylaws language was passed by membership vote (2021) on how to move through this transition.
“Not more than two Directors residing in any one state may serve on the Board at any one time. All Directors must reside in the district in which they represent unless there has been a realignment of the district, as set out in this Section 3, during the Director’s term of office. In the event of realignment, a Director, whose state is realigned into a different district, shall continue to serve the district fromwhich he or she was originally elected until the expiration of that Director’s term of office. Any resulting conflict with these bylaws caused by realignment, such as the number of Directors required per district, shall be waived and accepted until the entire realignment process is complete.”
Membership numbers for the most recent four years were reviewed and it was determined that district 1 and district 2 were well out of alignment and redistrict- ing needed to occur. The table below shows the member by district balance for the last 4 years. USSAMEMBERNUMBERSBYDISTRICT PRIORTOREDISTRICTING MEMBERS % MEMBERS % MEMBERS % MEMBERS % D1 TOTAL 85 19.0% 87 19.2% 91 18.2% 103 19.8% D2 TOTAL 87 18.8% 86 19% 106 21.2% 108 20.7% D3 TOTAL 131 29.3% 134 29.6% 147 29.6% 141 27.1% D4 TOTAL 154 31.9% 146 32.2% 157 32.2% 169 32.4% GRAND TOTAL 457 99% 453 100% 501 100% 521 100% 2021 2020 2019 2018 After lengthy committee and Board discussions the new USSA districts will be as stated below (district map is updated). States underlined have been moved into the district in which they are listed in now. A breakdown of the membership by district after redistricting is shown below. This redistricting plan was evaluated for all four previous years to ensure that the plan corrected the unbalanced distribution.
USSAMEMBERNUMBERSBYDISTRICT AFTERREDISTRICTING
MEMBERS
% MEMBERS
% MEMBERS
% MEMBERS
%
D1 TOTAL D2 TOTAL D3 TOTAL D4 TOTAL
104 121 110 122 453
24.06% 24.94% 24.72% 26.27%
109 117 112 115 453
24.1% 25.8% 24.7% 25.4% 100%
116 135 123 127 501
23.2% 26.9% 24.6% 25.3% 100%
126 139 116 140 521
24.2% 26.7% 22.3% 26.9% 100%
GRAND TOTAL
100%
2021
2020
2019
2018
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