City of Vallejo - Redistricting
Ken Chawkins, National Demographics Corporation
Jen Nentwig, Tripepi Smith
February 8, 2022
2 Outreach Overview
Outreach and public engagement efforts to date include:
Created a dedicated website for the redistricting process: https://mapvallejo.org/ Map Vallejo was listed on City’s homepage both via a banner & button Virtual presentations to community groups:
Glen Cove Community Association
Vallejo Rotary Club
Vallejo Soroptomist
Leadership Vallejo
Social media, phone and email outreach promoting educational material on redistricting, including press releases and videos
Distributed flyers to encourage public participation at various meetings and tonight’s public hearing Animated video was posted to City’s Instagram
MapVallejo was featured in Trivia Tuesday on City’s Instagram Contacted community-based organizations via phone to inform them of the redistricting process and how to get involved
Redistricting content and animated was included in Vallejo Weekly Jan. 11 & Feb. 8 public hearings will be livestreamed on Facebook MapVallejo ads ran on the SF Bay Ferry/WETA ferries, SolTrans buses February 8, 2022
3 Redistricting Process
Step Description
Two Initial Hearings
June 22 & July 27
Held prior to release of draft maps.
Education and to solicit input on communities and neighborhoods.
Community Workshops
August/September
Workshops held in each district for public input on the composition of districts.
Census Data Release
Mid/Late August
Census Bureau releases official 2020 Census population data.
California Data Release
Early October 2021
California Statewide Database releases California’s official ‘prisoner- adjusted’ 2020 redistricting data.
Deadline / Public map
December 23, 2021
Maps received by December 23, 2021, will be processed and reviewed at the January 11, 2022, Public Hearing
Two Draft Map Hearings
January 11 & February 8
- Two Public Hearings to discuss and revise the draft maps and to discuss the election sequence.
- Deadline to submit maps for 2/8 Hearing is January 25, 2022 Map Adoption
By April 17, 2022
Final map must be posted at least 7 days prior to adoption.
Map adopted via ordinance.
February 8, 2022
4 Equal Population
Federal Voting Rights Act
No Racial Gerrymandering
Minimize voters shifted to
different election years
Respect voters’ choices /
continuity in office
Future population growth
Preserving the core of existing
districts
1. Federal Laws 2. California Criteria for
Cities
Geographically contiguous
Undivided neighborhoods and
“communities of interest”
(Socio-economic geographic areas that
should be kept together)
Easily identifiable boundaries
Compact
(Do not bypass one group of people to
get to a more distant group of people)
Prohibited:
“Shall not favor or discriminate against
a political party.”
3. Other Traditional
Redistricting Principles
Redistricting Rules and Goals
January 11, 2022
5 Demographic Summary of Existing Districts
- Using 2020 Census total population counts
- Total plan deviation at 7.98%;
- Inside the 10% maximum considered presumptively constitutional - Existing districts remain population balanced
- Each of the six districts must contain about 21,082 people February 8, 2022
City of V allejo - Existing Districts
Category Field 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
2020 Census
Total Population 20,592 20,880 20,180 21,569 21,863 21,410 126,494 Population Deviation -490 -202 -902 487 781 328 1,683
Pct. Deviation -2.32% -0.96% -4.28% 2.31% 3.70% 1.56% 7.98% Total Pop.
Hispanic/Latino 16% 39% 17% 27% 34% 37% 28%
NH White 18% 9% 25% 21% 29% 24% 21%
NH Black 17% 20% 20% 27% 19% 21% 21%
NH Asian/Pac.Isl. 44% 29% 34% 21% 13% 15% 26%
NH Native Amer. 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1%
Citizen Voting Age Pop
Total 15,017 12,928 15,508 13,759 14,258 13,971 85,441
Hisp 11% 23% 13% 18% 22% 23% 18%
NH White 27% 16% 32% 28% 44% 35% 31%
NH Black 16% 25% 18% 32% 21% 25% 23%
Asian/Pac.Isl. 43% 34% 35% 20% 12% 14% 27%
Native Amer. 0% 1% 0% 1% 2% 0% 1%
6 Defining Neighborhoods
1st Question: What is your neighborhood?
2nd Question: What are its geographic boundaries?
Examples of physical features defining a neighborhood boundary:
Natural neighborhood dividing lines, such as highway or major roads, rivers, canals and/or hills
Areas around parks or schools
Other neighborhood landmarks
In the absence of public testimony, planning records and other similar documents may provide definition.
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7 Beyond Neighborhoods:
Defining Communities of Interest
1st Question: What defines your community?
Geographic Area, plus
Shared issue or characteristic
Shared social or economic interest
Impacted by city policies
Tell us “your community’s story”
2nd Question: Would this community benefit from being “included within a single district for purposes of its effective and fair representation”? Or would it benefit more from having multiple representatives? Definitions of Communities of Interest may not include relationships with political parties, incumbents, or political candidates.
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8 Public Mapping and Map Review Tools
Different tools for different purposes
Different tools for different levels of technical skill and interest Simple “review draft maps” tool
Easy-to-use “Draw your neighborhood” tool
Paper- and Excel-based simple “Draw a draft map” tools Powerful, data-rich “Draw a draft map” tool
Whether you use the powerful (but complicated) online mapping tool, Excel, the paper kit, or just draw on a napkin, we welcome your maps! February 8, 2022
9 Simple Map Review Tool
Online Interactive Review Map
ESRI’s “ArcGIS Online” – similar to Google Maps in ease of use Used to review, analyze and compare maps, not to create them Includes overlays of “community of interest” and other data February 8, 2022
10 Simple Map Drawing Tool
Paper “Public
Participation Kit”
For those without
internet access or who
prefer paper
Total Population
Counts only – no
demographic numbers
February 8, 2022
11 Simple Map Drawing Tool + Excel Supplement
“Public Participation Kit”
- For those who know Excel
and do not wish to use
online tools.
- Adds CVAP data
- Excel does the math
12 Dave’s Redistricting App
Full Database
Easy to learn
Easy to use / Paint brush
https://davesredistricting.org/maps#home
February 8, 2022
13 Caliper’s “Maptitude Online Redistricting”
Caliper Maptitude: Full Database, Powerful Online Mapping Tool Powerful, common, data-rich online tool
Six languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Mandarin and Korean Quick Start Guide
February 8, 2022
14 Draft Maps for Consideration
- Both population balanced
- Draft A adjusts for contiguity – County area/District 6 - Draft B adjusts for contiguity with additional 26 people kept in D5 February 8, 2022
15 Public Hearing & Discussion
Council direction:
Comments on maps
Adjustments requested
Any questions about the mapping tools or process?
Ready for adoption?
February 8, 2022
16 MapVallejo.org
January 11, 2022
January 11, 2022
FY 2021-22 Mid-Year
Budget Presentation
Mike Malone, Interim City Manager
Rekha Nayar, Finance Director
February 8, 2022
Introduction
➢ Midyear at a Glance
➢ Midyear Additions from Step 1 presented on January 25, 2022 ➢ Change in Fund balance
➢ Change in 5 Year
➢ Change in Expenditure Total
➢ Conclusion
2 ➢Midyear Additions
➢ Adding $0.52 Million per Council direction
➢ Increasing allocation for street and pothole repair to $500k ➢ Addition of $50k for Neogov implementation
➢ Addition of $66k for AA II, Youth Group Coordinator
3 Mid-Year at a Glance
➢ Overall, continue with balanced budget
➢ General Fund revenues are up
➢ Proposed expenditures increase
4 (In Millions) Step 1 Step 2 Total
Change
Revenues $125.47 $125.47 $0.00
Expenditures 124.04 124.56 0.52 Total 1.43$ 0.91$ (0.52) FY 2021-22 Mid-year GF Proposed Allocation
5 (In Millions)
General Fund Expenditures
Salaries & Benefits $ 101.57 $ 101.64 $ 0.07 0.07% Service & Supplies 22.48 22.92 0.45 2.0%
Total Expenditures $ 124.04 $ 124.56 $ 0.52 0.42% Step 1 Step 2 Difference
AMT %
FY 2021-22 General Fund (excluding ARPA)
Five Year Financial Forecast
(In Millions)
Starting Ending balance $ 21.68 $ 23.11 $ 22.92 $ 20.91 $ 15.64 Adopted Revenue 119.95 124.54 126.34 129.78 131.43 Adopted Expenditure 119.92 126.65 127.38 129.94 131.35 Midyear Proposed Below
Additional Revenue 5.52 5.54 5.17 4.13 4.55
Additonal Service & Supplies 2.53
Additional Salaries & Benefits 1.59 3.63 6.15 9.23 10.29 Proposed Ending Balance $ 23.11 $ 22.92 $ 20.91 $ 15.64 $ 9.98 % Funded 18.63% 17.60% 15.66% 11.24% 7.04%
FY 2022-23 FY 2023-24 FY 2021-22 FY 2024-25 FY 2025-26 6 Proposed on January 25, 2022 STEP 1
FY 2021-22 General Fund (excluding ARPA)
Five Year Financial Forecast
7 With Additions STEP 2
(In Millions)
Starting Ending balance $ 21.68 $ 22.60 $ 22.24 $ 20.06 $ 14.62 Adopted Revenue 119.95 124.54 126.34 129.78 131.43 Adopted Expenditure 119.92 126.65 127.38 129.94 131.35 Midyear Proposed Below
Additional Revenue 5.52 5.54 5.17 4.13 4.55
Additonal Service & Supplies 2.98
Additional Salaries & Benefits 1.66 3.79 6.32 9.40 10.47 Proposed Ending Balance $ 22.60 $ 22.24 $ 20.06 $ 14.62 $ 8.79 % Funded 18.14% 17.05% 15.01% 10.49% 6.20%
FY 2022-23 FY 2023-24 FY 2021-22 FY 2024-25 FY 2025-26 In conclusion…
➢ General Fund revenue increase of 5.4% revenue increase ➢ Expenditure increase changed from $4.12M of 3.4% from step 1 to $4.64 M of 3.9% expenditure increase in step 2
➢ City continues to maintain healthy unassigned fund balance of $22.10M, 17.67% 8 Contacts / Questions
Mike Malone, Interim City Manager
Rekha Nayar, Finance Director
Legislative Priorities &
Advocacy Procedures
Update
February 8, 2022
Recommendation
• Receive an update on
2021 legislative
advocacy and adopt a
Resolution amending
legislative priorities
and advocacy
procedures for state
and federal legislation
for 2022
Agenda
Background
History
Purpose
Current Status of Legislative Priorities & Efforts
Overview of the City’s Advocacy Procedures
Review of Proposed Priorities
Comments & Questions
Background
Purpose:
(1) identifying advocacy procedures for State and Federal Legislation is to provide clear direction to staff with regard to monitoring bills during State and Federal legislative sessions
(2) ensure that legislative inquiries and responses will be administered consistently with "one voice"
• Council
• Establishes the City’s legislative priorities
• City Manager’s Office
• Reviews requests for the City to take a position on a legislative issue and analyzes positions taken by
League of California Cities, City lobbyist, and other
agencies or professional associations
• Makes a determination to:
• Support
• Oppose
• Monitor
• Other
Advocacy Procedures
• AB 14 (Aguiar-Curry) Broadband Services: California Advanced Services • AB 215 (Chiu): Housing Element. Regional Housing Need. Relative Progress Determination
• AB/SB 156: Broadband Trailer Bill to expand the state's broadband fiber infrastructure and increase internet connectivity for families and businesses • SB 4 (Gonzalez) Communications: California Advanced Services Fund: Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program: Surcharges.
• SB 9 (Atkins) Increased Density in Single-Family Zones • SB 556 (Dodd) Street Light Poles, Traffic Signal Poles, Utility Poles, and Support Structures: Attachments.
• State Redistricting
• Support for renaming the I-80 and I-780 interchanges to honor veterans 2021 Legislative Advocacy
Review of
Legislative Priorities
• General Government
• Human Rights
• Local Control
• Budget and Fiscal Sustainability
• Employee Relations and Worker’s
Compensation
• Housing and Neighborhoods
• Transportation
• Economic Development and Business
Attraction
• Land‐Use and Planning
• Healthy Community
• Environmental and Water Resources
• Public Safety and Emergency
Response
Presentation Topics
‐ Introduction
‐ Process for updating
‐ Overview of the priority
areas
‐ Advocacy “wins”
‐ Review of changes made
from the 2021 priorities
document
Susan H. Lent
Akin Gump
Questions & Comments
Terrance Davis, Interim Assistant City
Manager
[email protected]
Felicia Escover
[email protected]
Elevate Ensenada
Erik Rzomp, Executive Assistant to the Mayor
Office of the Mayor – Sister City Commission Support
February 8, 2022
Introduction
• Mission of Sister Cities relating to this elevation
• Describe process leading to the Commission decision
• Next steps
Sister City Mission
• Promote peace through mutual respect, understanding,
and cooperation ‐ one individual one community at a time. • …develop lifelong friendships that provide prosperity and peace through person to person “citizen diplomacy.”
• The pairing of Vallejo and Ensenada continues the mission through citizen diplomacy.
The Process
Evaluation process
• Per VMC 2.38.030
– Evaluate relationships and make recommendations to counci – Record deliberations and decisions adequately to reveal considerations significant to such decisions.
• Elevate Ensenada Packet
– Elevate Ensenada Subcommittee: Chair, Commissioner Emma del Rosario Cordova, Commission Chair Elissa Shanks Stewart, Commissioner Karen Lowe.
• Unanimous decision at the Sister City Commission meeting October 18, 2021,to elevate Ensenada to Sister City status.
City to City Relationship Established
• Communication established
– Letter of Inquiry, Letter of Friendship
– Letter of intent from Mayor Novelo to Mayor Sampayan 6/2017 • Vallejo citizen diplomatic visits to Ensenada in 2017 and 2019 • Sister Cities International recognition certificate 6/2017 • November 2019 then Councilmember McConnell with letter of introduction from former Mayor Sampayan made an
official courtesy call.
• Due to pandemic travel precautions only ongoing electronic communication between citizen diplomats of the Vallejo
Sister City Ensenada subcommittee & Ensenada residents
Areas of Shared Interest
• Potential for strategic long‐term partnership with mutual benefits
• Common interest areas
– Vineyards and wineries
– Colleges and Universities
– Tourism
– Shipbuilding and seafaring
– Sports and cultural
– Public art
Other Considerations
• Fiscal Impact
– None
• Environmental Review
– N/A
Next Steps
What’s next?
• Approval of Resolution by Vallejo Mayor
• Approval of Resolution by Ensenada Mayor
• Recognition of relationship by Sister Cities International Contacts / Questions
Contact: Erik Rzomp
[email protected]
(707)648‐4377
Modifications to the Planning
Commission’s Rules and
Procedures
Margaret Kavanaugh‐Lynch, Planning Manager
Christina Ratcliffe, AICP, Interim PDS Director
Planning and Development Services
February 8, 2022.
Purpose of Meeting
Planning Commission recommends the following modifications to create a more transparent and user‐friendly Agenda:
1) Re‐order the agenda to move public hearings closer to the beginning of the meeting
2) Allow the cancellation of regular meetings by the joint decision of the Chair, Vice‐Chair and Secretary, rather than by a majority vote of the full Commission,
3) Reduce the number of mandatory regular meetings from one meeting per month to three meetings per quarter and, 4) Add more descriptive language to the agenda to render it more user‐friendly to the public.
Purpose of Modifications
Approving the recommendations of the Planning Commission to its Rules of Order and Procedures:
• Will allow meetings to be more transparent, user‐friendly and operate more efficiently
• Will respect Commission’s time.
Recommended Actions
• Staff recommends the City Council:
1. Adopt a resolution modifying the Rules of Order and
Procedures of the Planning Commission to:
a) Amend the Order of the Agenda, and
b) Allow the cancellation of regular meetings by consensus of the Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary, and
c) Require a minimum of three meetings per quarter
And,
Recommended Actions
2. Introduce a proposed ordinance to allow the cancellation of meetings by consensus of the Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary, and require a minimum of three meetings per quarter.
Contacts / Questions
Margaret Kavanaugh‐Lynch Planning Manager
707‐648‐8604 Margaret.Kavanaugh‐
[email protected]
Example of New Agenda
A. Call to Order;
B. Pledge of Allegiance;
C. Roll Call;
D. Consent Calendar and Approval of Agenda
1, Approval of Minutes;
2. Other Consent Items
E. Report of the City Council Liaison
F. Community Forum;
G. Public Hearings;
H. Action Items
I. Written Communications;
J. Regular Reports
1. Secretary’s Report;
2.City Attorney’s Report;
3.Report of the Presiding Officer and Members of the Planning Commission;
4. Report of the Subcommittees
K. Other Agenda Items;
1. Future Agenda Items
L. Adjournment
City Council SR37 Update
Mark Helmbrecht, Transportation Manager
Terrance Davis, Interim Assistant City Manager
February 8, 2022
SR37 Corridor Issues
• Congestion
– Highway capacity limited
– Incident response difficult
• Flooding
– Heavy storms and breaching of old levees
– Sea level rise
• Lack of Transportation Alternatives
– Transit, walking, biking
• Sensitive Land Uses surrounding the corridor
SR37 Projects
• Caltrans and MTC have initiated several planning and environmental impact analysis efforts looking at projects throughout the corridor to address issues.
• Projects will look to address issues (congestion relief, eliminate flooding risk, provide transportation alternatives) while minimizing impacts to the environment.
Public Access Impacts and Mitigation
• The SR37 corridor provides public access to recreational and open space sites.
• Each construction project along the existing corridor will change conditions and likely impact public access.
• These impacts will need to be mitigated.
Public Engagement Effort ‐ Fall 2021
• Public Works funded a small public outreach effort to engage the community and collect input on priorities for public access. The effort included outreach to communities of concerns in both southern and northern Vallejo.
Findings
• Public Access
Opportunities
– Collectively, the survey
respondents identified the
Mare Island Education
Center as the top priority,
followed by the Vallejo
Marina Water Trail site,
Wilson Ave Water Trail site,
White Slough, South of the
Ferry Terminal Water Trail
site, and Cal Maritime Water
Trail site.
Findings
• Amenities
– Bathrooms, parking,
and access to the water
were the top three
amenities identified as
important by survey
respondents. In
addition, safety and
having trash cans and
water fountains
available were listed in
the “Other” category.
Full Report Available
• SR37 Public Access Opportunities 2021
Community Input Report will be posted to
the City’s website to share the results.
• The full report includes results broken out by
key ZIP Codes and a summation of the public
comments received which included major
themes
– Widen the highway to address the congestion
– Public Access sites must be safe (public safety
priority)
– Support for transportation alternatives (transit,
biking, and walking options) in addition to
vehicle access and parking
Contacts / Questions
Mark Helmbrecht, Transportation Manager
[email protected]
Terrance Davis, Interim Assistant City Manager
[email protected]