9 & 10 News May 10, 2021 In 2018, voters in Michigan agreed to give an independent redistricting commission the ability to redraw Michigan’s districts, based off new Census data. The full data set will not be available until later this summer but the commission begins public hearings this week. For decades, the legislature were the ones that drew the districts for Congress and the State House and Senate, but now it’s going to the people. “This opportunity to do this is historic truly,” said Jim Schwantes, Supervisor of Centerville Township in Leelanau Township. Starting Tuesday, the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission will begin holding public comment hearings, twice weekly, to hear from Michiganders before they begin the district drawing process.