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LOYALTON - The Upper Dauphin Area School Board may vote at its Tuesday, May 13 meeting on a proposed re-alignment of the school district's existing voting regions.

At its May 1 committee meeting, most of the board, by a straw poll, favored the following of four options for the proposed re-alignment.

• Region One: Washington and Mifflin townships.

• Region Two: Elizabethville Borough and Jefferson and Lykens townships.

• Region Three: Berrysburg, Gratz, Pillow and Lykens boroughs.

The proposed realignment still would need to be approved by the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas before it would go into effect.

Background. UDA's existing voting regions are:

• Region One: Berrysburg, Gratz and Pillow boroughs and Lykens and Mifflin townships.

• Region Two: Elizabethville Borough and Jefferson and Washington townships.

• Region Three: Lykens Borough.

A subcommittee of the board recommended a realignment of the regions due to the disparity in population among the three separate regions that has occurred in the past several years.

State law requires each region to be roughly equal in population, so retaining the regions in their current form is not an option, according to committee members. They also said district residents are aware that a disparity exists and that a citizen could petition the court for a change.

The proposed realignment would give Region One 3,000 people; Region Two 3,284 and Region Three 3,439, according to figures provided to the board members. Six of the seven board members present May 1 favored this option.

Jack Laudenslager proposed moving Pillow into Region One, giving that region 3,328 people instead of 3,000. John Blyler was absent from the meeting. (The UDA board has eight members at this time instead of nine.)

Committee members had said Washington Twp. probably of any municipality,  will have the largest population influx; therefore, it  was placed with Mifflin Twp. where the same percentage of growth isn't expected.

The May 13 meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. in the district office in Loyalton.