CITY OF PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY
COUNCIL/PETALUMA COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENTSUCCESSOR AGENCY (PCDSA)
City Hall Council Chambers
11 English Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
MINUTES
Monday, February 14, 2022
WORKSHOP PUBLIC HEARING #4 FOR DISTRICT BASED ELECTIONS PURSUANT TO ELECTIONS CODE SECTION 10010
CALL TO ORDER - 6:00 P.M.
Mayor Barrett called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m.
ROLL CALL
PRESENT: Teresa Barrett, Brian Barnacle, D'Lynda Fischer, Mike Healy, Dave King, Kevin McDonnell, and Dennis Pocekay
ABSENT: None
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
1. WORKSHOP
A. Public Hearing #4 for District-Based Elections Pursuant to Elections Code 10010
Mayor Barrett announced the item and introduced City Attorney Eric Danly to give the report.
City Attorney Danly announced that this was the 4
th public hearing to receive
community input to establish city council elections and voting districts per the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA). He summarized high points of interest in the staff report and agenda materials that were posted on the website and announced future publication deadlines for preferred maps to be considered and future city council meeting dates to introduce and adopt the ordinance for district elections.
Mayor Barrett facilitated council questions and input relating to laws on redistricting and forming districts , consideration of racial demographics , the California Fair Maps Act and on maps that were submitted by the community for review.
Attorney Danly introduced Chris Chaffee of Redistricting Partners and Tom Willis of Olson Remcho.
Chris Chaffee of Redistricting Partners provided a PowerPoint presentation that covered traditional districting/redistricting principles; consideration of racial demographics in creating districts; community of Interest to Maps that included written testimony and community map submissions by Theme; draft Map A2 and next steps.
Mr. Chaffee indicated that the craft to create draft maps focus on letting the community speak thr ough forms, worksheets and emails and include all drawn maps to incorporate which is the starting point for the council and the public to come forward and indicate which map they prefer.
Mr. Chaffee indicated the city received twenty -two community maps, f our physical maps and two additional community maps and reviewed each of the maps in the PowerPoint presentation.
Mayor Barrett facilitated discussion, council questions and input.
Mayor Barrett open the public hearing.
Janice Cader-Thompson Susan Kirks Rick Duste
Ali Gaylord John Shribbs Eric Fiato
Teresa Payne-Lyons
Mayor Barrett closed the public hearing and returned the item to council for discussion and facilitation of a straw poll on six maps under consideration.
Director Alverde concluded the discussion and announced next steps of meeting on March 7 to review second round draft maps and clarified March 21 for the Introduction (first reading) of Ordinance to adopt district -based elections and April 4 for the Adoption (second reading of Ordinance to adopt district-based elections.
PUBLIC COMMENT
During Public Comment, the public is invited to address the legislative bodies concerning the item described in the notice for this meeting. Public comments are limited up to three minutes per person. Depending on the number of persons wishing to address the Council, time will be allocated in equal shares totaling no more than twenty minutes, subject to the Council’s discretion (Cal. Gov’t. Code §54954.3(a), Petaluma City Council Rules, Policies and Procedures, III). WORKSHOP
Mayor Barrett opened public comment.
Susan Kirks
Teresa Payne-Lyons
Mayor Barrett closed public comment.
ADJOURN
Mayor Barrett adjourned the meeting at 9:15 p.m.