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OXNARD CITY COUNCIL
Council Chambers, 305 West Third Street
January 6, 2022
Special Council Meeting
6:00 PM
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In the event of a disruption which prevents a legislative body of the City of Oxnard from broadcasting a meeting using a call-in option or internet-based service option, or in the event of a disruption within the City’s control which prevents members of the public from offering public comment using the call-in option or internet-based service option, the legislative body shall take no further action on items appearing 1 AMENDED AGENDA
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on a meeting agenda until public access to the meeting via the call-in option or internet-based service option is restored. However, if any of the broadcast options are disrupted, but any of the other broadcast options is still available to the public, the legislative body may take further action on items appearing on a meeting agenda without waiting for the disrupted broadcast option(s) to be restored. * The City has filed pre-election and post-election lawsuits regarding the validity of Measure M.
A. ROLL CALL, POSTING OF AGENDA
THE FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE BODIES ARE MEETING: City Council
B. OPENING CEREMONIES (6:00 PM)
Pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States.
C. PUBLIC HEARINGS
1. City Attorney Department
SUBJECT: Public Hearing Regarding Redistricting of City Council Districts (15/30/30)
RECOMMENDATION: That the City Council conduct a public hearing regarding the redistricting process for City Council districts and receive a presentation from the City’s redistricting consultant regarding the maps that have been submitted. (This item did not originate in Committee.)
Because the presentation will be made by a consultant, the presentation was not prerecorded pursuant to Measure M.
Legislative Body: City Council
Contact: Stephen Fischer, (805) 385-7483
D. ADJOURNMENT
2 CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
PUBLIC HEARINGS
AGENDA ITEM NO. C.1
DATE: January 6, 2022
TO: City Council
FROM: Stephen Fischer, City Attorney, (805) 385-7483, [email protected]
SUBJECT: Public Hearing Regarding Redistricting of City Council Districts (15/30/30)
RECOMMENDATION
That the City Council conduct a public hearing regarding the redistricting process for City Council districts and receive a presentation from the City’s redistricting consultant regarding the maps that have been submitted. (This item did not originate in Committee.)
Because the presentation will be made by a consultant, the presentation was not prerecorded pursuant to Measure M.
BACKGROUND
Every ten years, cities with by-district elections are required to use new census data to review and redraw district lines to reflect population changes. This process, called redistricting, ensures that all districts within a city have nearly an equal number of people residing within each district.
Although the City recently went through the districting process in 2018, the Council districts that were created reflected the population totals from the 2010 census. Under state law, public entities with elections in November 2022 have until April 17, 2022 in which to adopt district maps that reflect the changes in population indicated in the 2020 census (as modified by the State of California to reflect the original residency of persons incarcerated in California’s prisons).
The City’s redistricting process is a standalone process that is not connected to the redistricting that occurred at a state level (including for the Congressional, Assembly, and state Senate districts) or at the County level (for the Supervisorial districts). The City’s process will only address any necessary rebalancing of the Council district boundaries that will now occur once a decade after the U.S. Census is released.
Under recently adopted state laws (AB 849 and AB 1276), when the City Council goes through the redistricting process, the Council is required to draw and adopt boundaries using the following criteria in the listed order of priority:
1. Substantially equal in population for each of the districts.
2. Complies with the U.S. Constitution, the California Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act.
3. Geographically contiguous.
4. Minimize the division of local neighborhoods and local communities of interest. (The law defines a “community of interest” as a population that shares common social or economic interests.)
5. Create district boundaries that residents can easily identify and understand. (These would include natural or artificial 3 barriers, streets or the boundaries of the city.)
6. Districts that are compact in size.
7. District boundaries that are not adopted to favor or discriminate against a political party. (Elections Code Section 21601.)
Once the prioritized criteria are met, other traditional districting principles can be considered, such as:
1. Minimize the number of voters delayed from voting from 2022 to 2024;
2. Respect voters’ choices/continuity in office; and
3. Future population growth.
As part of the redistricting process, the City is required to hold at least four public hearings or workshops, with at least one of these public hearings or workshops held before any of the new district maps are drawn. At least one hearing must occur on a Saturday, Sunday, or after 6 p.m. on a weekday. If a redistricting hearing is held as part of a regular City Council meeting, the redistricting hearing portion must begin at a designated time. In addition, local public redistricting hearings are required to be made accessible to people with disabilities.
The City Council previously held public hearings on redistricting on July 29, 2021, September 30, 2021 and December 6, 2021. After tonight’s public hearing, three additional redistricting public hearings have been scheduled. The dates of these public hearings are as follows:
Public Hearing #5: Saturday, January 22, 2022
Public Hearing #6: Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Public Hearing #7: Wednesday, February 16, 2022.
The City has publicized the redistricting process and public hearings in a variety of ways, including ongoing social media outreach starting July 20, 2021 that continues to date; placing online ads that have directly connected with nearly 20,000 Oxnard residents; broadcasting mapping information on local public access channels; publishing the upcoming public hearings in the Tri-County Sentry on December 24, 2021, Vida on December 30, 2021 and the Ventura County Star on January 2, 2022; and continuing advertising and outreach for upcoming public hearings.
ANALYSIS
Tonight’s public hearing will address the City’s redistricting process and will include a presentation from the City’s redistricting consultant regarding the maps that have been submitted to the City.
As of the date that this agenda report was prepared (December 29, 2021), a total of three maps have been submitted to the City. These three maps are included as attachments at the end of this agenda report. In addition, you may review these maps at the following online links:
Map 1 -- https://www.oxnard.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Map-1-Daniel-Chavez.pdf and https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::842ad238-1be2-4586-b400-9ca2f70bf2c8.
Map 2 -- https://www.oxnard.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Map-2-Ronald-Arruejo-Map-and-Statistics.pdf and https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::de8027b2-377c-4f6a-804c-d7fa4deeac78.
Map 3 -- https://www.oxnard.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Teran-map.pdf and https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::0bf6023a-c828-4bfb-9788-ec756a2c3b3c.
If additional maps are submitted prior to the January 6, 2022 public hearing, then these maps will be uploaded to the City’s website at: https://www.oxnard.org/maps-submitted/. If adequate time is available for the redistricting consultant to review the additional maps, the consultant will also provide an analysis of these maps at the January 6, 2022 public 4 hearing.
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
This agenda item does not relate to the five strategic priorities adopted by City Council on March 16, 2021.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
There is no financial impact.
COMMITTEE OUTCOME
This item did not originate in Committee.
Prepared by: Kenneth Rozell, Chief Assistant City Attorney, Jason Zaragoza, Deputy City Attorney
ATTACHMENTS
1. Attachment 1 -- Map 1
2. Attachment 2 -- Map 2
3. Attachment 3 -- Map 3
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SUBMITTED ON DECEMBER 19, 2021
BY RONALD J. ARRUEJO
LINK TO MAP: https://davesredistricting.org/join/de8027b2-377c-4f6a-804c-d7fa4deeac78 8 ID Total Pop Devation Dem Rep Oth Total VAP White Minority Hispanic Black Asian Native Pacific Un 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 32255 -0.0448 0.6825 0.2949 0.0227 19706 0.2857 0.7143 0.5406 0.0482 0.0995 0.0112 0.0063 2 35330 0.0462 0.645 0.3338 0.0212 23945 0.4377 0.5623 0.4459 0.0312 0.0734 0.0106 0.0013 3 33175 -0.0176 0.763 0.2147 0.0223 18429 0.1392 0.8608 0.6742 0.0332 0.134 0.0092 0.0054 4 34356 0.0174 0.8043 0.1738 0.0219 14587 0.0845 0.9155 0.7864 0.0459 0.0814 0.0007 0.0007 5 34254 0.0144 0.7412 0.2368 0.022 17661 0.1289 0.8711 0.6527 0.0452 0.1601 0.0019 0.0105 6 33244 -0.0155 0.7499 0.2256 0.0245 17017 0.205 0.795 0.6615 0.0555 0.0625 0.0041 0.0024 Summary 33769 0.0911 0.7203 0.2573 0.0223 18558 0.2306 0.7694 0.6108 0.0424 0.1012 0.0068 0.0044 MAP 2 STATISTICS
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SUBMITED ON DECEMBER 27, 2021
BY GABE TERAN
LINK TO MAP: https://davesredistricting.org/join/0bf6023a-c828-4bfb-9788-ec756a2c3b3c 10 ID Total Pop Devation Dem Rep Oth Total VAP White Minority Hispanic Black Asian Native Pacific Un 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 33142 -0.0186 0.6209 0.357 0.0221 25581 0.4462 0.5538 0.384 0.0492 0.0998 0.0105 0.0027 2 33594 -0.0052 0.7159 0.2629 0.0211 19258 0.2677 0.7323 0.6044 0.0348 0.0718 0.0104 0.0056 3 34267 0.0147 0.763 0.2145 0.0225 18939 0.1446 0.8554 0.672 0.0326 0.1314 0.009 0.0056 4 33765 -0.0001 0.7896 0.1872 0.0232 14023 0.1238 0.8762 0.7764 0.0375 0.0592 0.0021 0.0007 5 33891 0.0036 0.7453 0.2337 0.021 17807 0.1169 0.8831 0.669 0.0402 0.1606 0.0019 0.0104 6 33955 0.0055 0.7828 0.1925 0.0247 15737 0.1618 0.8382 0.7004 0.0592 0.0733 0.0035 0.0006 Summary 33769 0.0333 0.7203 0.2573 0.0223 18558 0.2306 0.7694 0.6108 0.0424 0.1012 0.0068 0.0044 MAP 3 STATISTICS
11 Redistricting Public Hearing
January 6, 2022
City of Oxnard
Kristen Parks, Consultant
National Demographics Corporation
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Current District Map
Although the
current districts
were adopted in
2018, they were
drawn using
2010 Census
data
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Redistricting Timeline
Date Event
July 29, 2021 Public Hearing #1 to introduce redistricting process September 27, 2021 Release of California official redistricting data September 30, 2021 Public Hearing #2 on “communities of interest” December 6, 2021 Public Hearing #3 to demo mapping tools Time for the public to draw & submit maps
January 6, 2022 Public Hearing #4 to discuss draft maps January 22, 2022 Public Hearing #5 to discuss draft maps February 1, 2022 Public Hearing #6 to discuss draft maps February 16, 2022 Public Hearing #7 to consider the selection of a map and potentially the introduction of an ordinance to
adopt
April 17, 2022 Legal deadline to adopt new map
November 8, 2022 First election with new map
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Legal Criteria for Redistricting
1. Ensure
geographic
contiguity
2. Minimize
division of
neighborhoods
&
“communities
of interest”
3. Create easily
identifiable
boundaries
4. Maintain
compactness
ü Do not “favor or
discriminate
against a political
party”
üEnsure equal
population*
üComply with
federal Voting
Rights Act
üAvoid racial
gerrymanderin
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Traditional CriteriaCalifornia Law
May include:
• Minimize
changes to
election cycles
• Respect voters’
choices
• Preserve core
of existing
districts
Federal Law
Do not bypass a
nearby
population to
take in a more
distant
population
* Total
population
deviation < 10%
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Oxnard 2020 Demographic Summary
District 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
2020 Census Total Population 33,143 39,136 32,470 32,626 32,846 32,393 202,614
Deviation from ideal -626 5,367 -1,299 -1,143 -923 -1,376 6,743 % Deviation -1.85% 15.89% -3.85% -3.38% -2.73% -4.07% 19.97% 2020 Total
Population
% Hisp 49% 72% 77% 86% 77% 89% 75%
% NH White 35% 16% 8% 7% 6% 5% 13%
% NH Black 3% 3% 2% 2% 2% 1% 2%
% Asian-American 10% 7% 12% 3% 13% 4% 8%
Citizen Voting
Age Population
Total 25,549 22,212 17,645 14,569 17,531 14,036 111,541 % Hisp 39% 61% 68% 75% 63% 77% 61%
% NH White 44% 27% 14% 13% 13% 12% 23%
% NH Black 5% 3% 3% 5% 5% 4% 4%
% Asian/Pac.Isl. 10% 7% 14% 6% 19% 6% 11%
Language
spoken at
home
english 61% 43% 31% 22% 22% 22% 34%
spanish 31% 52% 58% 73% 65% 72% 58%
asian-lang 6% 4% 6% 4% 10% 3% 5%
other lang 2% 1% 4% 1% 3% 4% 3%
Housing
single family 78% 57% 78% 70% 79% 72% 72%
multi-family 22% 43% 22% 30% 21% 28% 28%
rented 37% 59% 42% 54% 40% 48% 47%
owned 63% 41% 58% 46% 60% 52% 53%
Total population data from the California adjustment to the 2020 Decennial Census. Citizen Voting Age Pop., Age, Immigration, and other demographics from the 2015- 2019 American Community Survey and Special Tabulation 5-year data. 5 16 January 6, 2022
Draft Maps
PUBLIC MAPS (3) CONSULTANT MAPS (3)
Public Map 1
Public Map 2
Public Map 3
NDC Map 201
NDC Map 202
NDC Map 203
6 Draft maps available online at
oxnard.org/redistricting
17 Public Map 1
18 Public Map 2
19 Public Map 3
20 NDC Map 201
21 NDC Map 202
22 NDC Map 203
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For More Information
Website:
http://oxnard.org/redistricting
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