A proposed map of newly redrawn districts for the Nash County Board of Commissioners will go on review at the board’s monthly meeting Monday.

Nash County residents will have the opportunity to weigh in on a proposed redistricting plan for the commissioners districts during a public hearing at 10 a.m at the Nash County Administration Building in Nashville. The map is one of three drawn by elections law attorney Adam Mitchell of Raleigh-based law firm Tharrington Smith.

Smith submitted a final version of the commissioners district map last month to the county’s redistricting committee — Democrats Gwen Wilkins and Randy Stewart, the committee chairman, and Bill Buchanan, a Republican. The map was approved by the committee and introduced to the board at their June meeting.

2010 U.S. Census data shows that Nash County’s total population grew from 87,420 to 95,840 in the past decade. The ideal population for each of the seven commissioners districts is 13,691.

Upon the board’s passage of the redistricting plan, it would go to the U.S. Justice Department or the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., for preclearance. Nash County is one of 40 counties in North Carolina that fall under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which requires federal preclearance before redistricting plans can be put into effect.

If Nash County’s redistricting plan is overturned, then a new one has to be formed.