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Originally Posted by Explicit
I'm in Section 99 and there's talk of splitting us up soon, as we've got 10 chapters and 3 current extension efforts with another possibly on the way.
I actually liked the fact that our section was our state, and I'll be a little sad when it splits, but you have to do what you have to do.
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True, but it appears that the concept of what the appropriate size for a section (in terms of number of chapters and the area that they are in) has gone down over the last 10-15 years...
I think NJ/99 is the only one of the remaining state/sections to be likely to split soon. Iowa/21 is the only other one with more than 5 chapters, and I think they are down one chapter from their max over the last decade.
I think one likely way to split NJ is simply to move the chapters in the northern part of the state into 97. 97 is undersize in terms of active chapters (though I believe largest in the country in terms of charters) and also keeps people from having to figure out what number other than 93 would be given to the two new sections. (Section 78 is the highest number that hasn't been used in the last 20 years).
Randy