Vidalia — The prospect of one day redistricting Concordia Parish into seven single-member districts remains a possibility, though one parish police juror said he doubts it will happen.

Two weeks after former jury Secretary-treasurer Kevin Friloux suggested the board reduce its amount of jurors, current secretary-treasurer Sandi Burley gave a report at Monday’s meeting on the feasibility of redistricting.

Cutting the board down to seven jurors would save the parish approximately $50,000 annually, Friloux said in March.

The jury currently has five districts, but four of those districts have two jurors sharing oversight.

After speaking with the jury’s consultant Oliver Schultz, Burley said the parish could not possibly cut the number of districts down to five, which would eliminate five of the current nine juror positions.

Instead, seven districts would be the absolute minimum recommended by Schultz, Burley said.

A few main justifications Burley provided for that thinking are the lack of considerable population change since the last census in 2010, as well as a statute that requires the parish to maintain at least two minority districts.

“(Schultz) said doing anything less than seven districts is not going to be feasible,” Burley said. “He said it’s almost impossible because you have such large areas and things like that for our parish’s needs.”

Carrying out the redistricting would cost the parish approximately $12,000, Burley said.

Though feasible, District 1B Juror Joe Parker said he does not see redistricting in the near future, but he added that the jury could discuss the possibility following the next census in 2020.

“We’ll take a look at the (population) count,” Parker said. “I don’t foresee any changes in the future, but we’ll take a look at it.”

Redistricting of the parish is open to consideration at any time, according to documents supplied by Burley following Monday’s meeting.