HomeMy WebLinkAbout04 - Councilmanic District BoundariesAgenda Item No. 4
January 11, 2000
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
FROM: LaVonne M. Harkless, City Clerk
SUBJECT: COUNCILMANIC DISTRICT BOUNDARIES
RECOMMENDATION
1) Adopt Resolution No. 2000 -_ establishing a Councilmanic Redistricting
Committee; and
2) Confirm Mayor Noyes' appointment of Mayor Pro Tern Adams, Council Member
Thomson and Council Member O'Neil to the Councilmanic Redistricting
Committee.
BACKGROUND
At the City Council meeting of December 13, 1999 Mayor Noyes requested that the
City Council meeting of January 11, 2000, include the appointment of the City
Council Redistricting Committee.
The City Council Redistricting Committee will review and make recommendations
to the City Council on any proposed councilmanic district realignments. Section
1005 of the City Charter requires the City to review the councilmanic district
alignments every fourth year. The last time this was done was 1995.
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LaVonne M. Harkless, CMC /AAE
City Clerk
Attachment: Resolution
RESOLUTION NO. 2000 -_
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING
A COUNCILMANIC REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE
WHEREAS, Section 1005 of the Newport Beach City Charter requires the City
Council, every four years, to appoint a committee to study the advisability of redistricting
the City of Newport Beach; and
WHEREAS, the redistricting was last considered by the City Council in 1995; and
WHEREAS, the Charter requires the City Council to appoint a committee to again
consider redistricting.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Newport
Beach hereby establishes the Councilmanic Redistricting Committee.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said Committee is charged with the following
duties and responsibilities:
1. Preparation of a reapportionment plan with alternatives on establishing
district boundaries which, as nearly as practicable, constitute natural areas of contiguous
and compact territory; and
2. Preparation of a reapportionment plan which will create districts, containing
substantially equal numbers of people, in order to provide fair representation on the City
Council; and
3. Report back to the City Council for redistricting the City, consistent with this
Resolution.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said Committee shall automatically cease to
exist at such time as the City Council adopts an ordinance changing and redefining the
boundaries of any or all of the seven Councilmanic districts.
ADOPTED this day of 2000.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
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