URBANA — In a surprisingly swift vote Thursday night, Champaign County Board members approved a new county board district map that had been submitted last week by the local chapter of the NAACP.

The board also approved a pay raise for board members elected after November 2012. It will be the first pay raise for county board members since 1988.

The vote on the map, also effective in 2012 and expected to be in place for 10 years, came with virtually no discussion and by a show of hands. County board Chairman C. Pius Weibel said the vote was 15-11. All Democrats voted for the map except Urbana Democrat Brendan McGinty.

Republicans made no effort to oppose the map, which was among three that had been forwarded to the board by the county's independent redistricting commission.

The president of the county Farm Bureau on Thursday spoke out against the NAACP map, contending that it gave rural interests only three fully rural districts and that it did not contain a majority minority district.

"Farm Bureau wants a map that will show a fair and equal opportunity of representing all citizens," said Farm Bureau President Jerry Watson. "Without four majority rural districts, that simply is not going to be achieved."

But the Rev. Jerome Chambers, former head of the local NAACP, suggested that the Farm Bureau's concerns about a majority minority district were insincere.

"As far as the Farm Bureau is concerned, the Farm Bureau is really concerned about the Farm Bureau and not the underrepresented or the underserved community," Chambers said.

Following the vote on the map, Champaign Republican Alan Nudo apologized to Farm Bureau officials for the GOP's meek response.

"I'm sorry, I blew it," Nudo said. "I thought we'd have the chance to review all three maps and vote on them, but we just considered one and that was it. It was a 'fait accompli' anyway."

Neither Republicans nor Democrats claimed to know what the partisan breakdown of the approved map would be.

"I honestly don't know," Nudo said.

"We'll see after the 2012 elections," said Urbana Democrat Tom Betz. "There is no such thing as a guarantee. I don't care how you draw the map. You cannot guarantee anyone anything. If you have lousy candidates, they're going to lose. You have to put up good, quality candidates."

Democrats now have a 15-12 advantage on the board, but effective with the 2012 election the board will be divided into 11 districts instead of nine, and there will be 22 board members instead of 27.

Also Thursday, the board approved a pay raise for board members — but not the pay raise package that had been proposed.

In two separate votes, the board voted to reduce a proposed $80 per diem to $60, and scrubbed an extra $45 per diem payment for committee chairs and vice chairs attending agenda preparation meetings.

Since 1988, board members have been paid $45 a meeting. Beginning in December 2012, the per diem rate will increase to $60, and board members will get an additional $45 for all special meetings, including special committee and subcommittee meetings and labor negotiation sessions.

All Republican board members present voted to reduce the per diem to $60 and were joined by Urbana Democrats Christopher Alix, James Quisenberry and McGinty.

Also Thursday night, the board approved a new three-year contract with Management Performance Associates of St. Louis for the management of the Champaign County Nursing Home and gave final approval to an intergovernmental agreement for the Lincoln Avenue portion of the Olympian Drive project.