Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, August 06, 2019
Special Orders of the Day
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PUBLIC HEARING NO. 4 RELATED TO CHANGING FROM AN AT-LARGE TO A BY-DISTRICT SYSTEM FOR ELECTION OF CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, PURSUANT TO THE CALIFORNIA VOTING RIGHTS ACT (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
Preliminary Map Discussion
To move from at-large elections to by-district voting the City needs to establish both the data necessary to complete the process as well as a timetable for meeting state and federal requirements for the transition. The City's demographer, David Ely of Compass Demographics, will lead tonight's presentation of the preliminary Council district maps. Preliminary maps will be presented this evening by the demographer, who considered the elements of the CVRA and any community input on communities of interest and other points. The three draft maps are attached as Exhibit Nos. 1-3. The City also received four separate submissions from community members who used the Participation Toolkit posted on the City's website, and those maps are attached as Exhibit No. 4-7. All documents pertaining to districting are available on the city website.
Public Hearing Date Change
Public hearings for August 6, 2019, August 10, 2019 and September 17, 2019 were officially scheduled by the City Council during the June 18, 2019 City Council meeting. Tonight will be the fourth public hearing on district voting and all have been noticed in the newspaper.
Since the official scheduling of future public hearing dates by the City Council, it has been determined that there is a significant scheduling conflict with the August 10 public hearing date. Another important city event is occurring on the same day, and therefore staff recommends the Council take the action to change the August 10 date to August 17 at 9:30a.m, and for notification purposes, staff recommends that tonight's hearing be continued to August 17, 2019.
II. RECOMMENDATION
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