Title:
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Sacramento Independent Redistricting Commission Recruitment Report
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FileID
File ID: 2020-00773
Location
Location: Citywide.
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Recommendation: Receive and file.
Recommendation
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Contact: Mindy Cuppy, MMC, City Clerk, (916) 808-5442, Office of the City Clerk
Body
Presenter: None.
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Recruitment, Education, and Outreach Plan
3-Sacramento City Charter - Article XII Redistricting
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: At the general election on November 8, 2016, the voters approved a measure that added article XII (?? 170-179) to the City Charter, thereby creating the Sacramento Independent Redistricting Commission ("SIRC"). SIRC has exclusive authority to redraw council-district boundaries (? 170(a)), is to conduct an open and transparent process with robust public input that will assist in the consideration of the boundaries (? 170(b)(2)), and must be fully established by December 1, 2020 (? 174(j)).
On January 28, 2020 the city clerk provided a report to the city council that explained the plans for: recruiting a qualified applicant pool that the reflects the city's diversity; assigning sufficient staff to support the commission's activities; training commissioners; providing work space and relevant technology to support the commission's activities, including city email addresses for commissioners; facilitating an open selection process to hire redistricting consultants; identifying and reserving meeting spaces suitable for holding public meetings in each council district; creating a website for the commission; and encouraging public participation in the redistricting process. That Recruitment, Education, and Outreach Plan for the Sacramento Independent Redistricting Commission is attached.
The City Clerk brought together a community and civic organization based Redistricting Commission Advisory Group (the "Advisory Group") to encourage broad public engagement in the SIRC recruitment...
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