Title:
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Review and Discuss Qualifications of Applicants to the Sacramento Independent Redistricting Commission
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FileID
File ID: 2020-01056
Location
Location: Citywide
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Recommendation:
Recommendation
1) Review and discuss qualifications of applicants to serve on the Sacramento Independent Redistricting Commission from District 2, District 3, and District 6; and 2) continue the item to the October 26 meeting for discussion and creation of the candidate subpool.
FileName
Contact: Mindy Cuppy, MMC, City Clerk, (916) 808-5442, Office of the City Clerk
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Presenter: Mindy Cuppy, MMC, City Clerk, (916) 808-5442, Office of the City Clerk
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Sacramento City Charter article XII (?? 170-179)
3-Sacramento Redistricting Commission Applications
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"). The 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)).
The Sacramento Ethics Commission is responsible for creating a subpool of 25 to 30 of the most-qualified applicants (at least two from each existing council district), and its chairperson is responsible for randomly selecting eight applicants from the subpool (one from each existing council district) to serve as SIRC commissioners. Those eight SIRC commissioners will then select five additional commissioners and two alternates from the remaining applicants in the subpool. We received 201 applications to serve on the inaugural SIRC.
Below is the tentative schedule for the SIRC creation process:
* August 24, 2020 - Interviews for candidates fro...
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