ORDINANCE NO. 2022-03
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HESPERIA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 1.09 OF THE HESPERIA MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADOPTING REVISED DISTRICT VOTING BOUNDARIES WHEREAS, On May 16, 2017, the City Council of Hesperia (“City”) adopted Ordinance No. 2017-09 changing the City from an at large to a by-district voting system, adopting boundaries for the City’s five voting districts and establishing an implementation schedule for conversion to by-district voting during the 2018 and 2020 election cycles; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Elections Code section 21601(a), the City is required to review its voting district boundaries following each decennial federal census; and WHEREAS, in 2019, the Fair and Inclusive Redistricting for Municipalities and Political Subdivisions (“FAIR MAPS”) Act (AB 849) amended the process and criteria by which the City must evaluate and adjust its voting district boundaries; and WHEREAS at the regular City Council meeting of September 21, 2021, the City Council received a presentation from National Demographic Corporation (NDC), the City’s redistricting consultant, for the purpose of explaining the redistricting process under the FAIR MAPS Act and held a public hearing to receive public input regarding communities of interest and the composition of one or more districts; and WHEREAS, at the regular City Council meeting of October 19, 2021the City Council held a public hearing to receive public input regarding communities of interest and the composition of one or more districts; and WHEREAS, on January 11, 2022 accompanied by information on the total population, citizen voting age population, and racial and ethnic characteristics of the citizen voting age population of each council district depicted, draft maps NDC 101, NDC 102, and NDC 103 were posted on the City’s redistricting website; and WHEREAS, at the regular City Council meeting of January 18, 2022 the City Council held a public hearing to receive public input regarding communities of interest and the composition of one or more districts; and WHEREAS, on February 15, 2022 accompanied by information on the total population, citizen voting age population, and racial and ethnic characteristics of the citizen voting age population of each council district depicted, an additional four (4) draft maps, NDC 101b, NDC 101c, NDC 101d, and NDC 101e were posted on the City’s redistricting website; and WHEREAS, at the regular City Council meeting of March 1, 2022 the City Council held a public hearing to receive public input regarding communities of interest and the composition of one or more districts; and WHEREAS, on March 2, 2022 accompanied by information on the total population, citizen voting age population, and racial and ethnic characteristics of the citizen voting age population of each council district depicted, an additional two (2) draft maps, Public Map 201, and Public Map 201 (Renumbered) were posted on the City’s redistricting website; and WHEREAS, at the regular City Council meeting held on March 15, 2022, the City Council held a fifth public hearing to receive public input regarding the composition of one or more council districts and, as described in this Ordinance, select Draft Map Staff Map 201b to be the “City Council District Map”, as that term is used in the Hesperia Municipal Code section 1.09.030, which Ordinance was thereafter introduced for a first reading at the same regular meeting of the City Council; NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HESPERIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. All of the facts set forth in this Ordinance are true, correct and are adopted as findings.
Section 2. The map described in this Ordinance and attached hereto as Exhibit A is hereby adopted as the “City Council District Map” as codified in section 1.09.030 of the Hesperia Municipal Code and incorporated therein by this reference.
Section 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 4. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days from the date of adoption.
Section 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of the Ordinance and shall cause the same to be posted in three (3) public places within the City of Hesperia pursuant to the provisions of Resolution No. 2007-101.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 15th day of March 2022.
Brigit Bennington, Mayor
ATTEST:
Erin Baum, Assistant City Clerk
Ordinance No. 2022-03