The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors will hear a report on the redistricting process so far, then hold another public hearing today on how to redraw supervisorial districts later this year in response to the 2020 Census.
County staff has produced five possible scenarios so far as to how supervisors can decide to redraw their districts, after the census said county population has increased 11.35 percent since 2010, with an additional 119,039 residents.
The county started a series of public meetings in August and the board will hold additional meetings through next month to get public input. The deadline to have new district lines in place in Dec. 15.
The biggest population increase came in supervisor Diane Burgis’ District 3 (36,560 residents), an area covering much of Antioch, Oakley, Brentwood, and unincorporated East County.
The least amount of growth occurred in supervisor Karen Mitchoff’s District 4 (10,442 residents), an area covering Concord, Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill and Clayton.
Contra Costa County’s population has increased overall from 1,049,025 in 2010 to 1,168,064 residents in 2020.
The goal is to create districts as equal in population as possible, while meeting all federal and state legal guidelines, such as respecting geographic integrity of an area, or a census-designated place, or local community of interest.
Each supervisor will host at least one public meeting to gather input through the end of October. To find out more about the process, go to https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/8135/About-Redistricting. The board will collectively talk about the plans agan at its Nov. 9 meeting and aims to have possible final maps ready for a decision on Nov. 23.
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors will meet virtually at 2:30 p.m. today, though the conversation about redistricting isn’t scheduled to begin until 6:15 p.m. The meeting can be joined at https://ems8.intellor.com/join/Byh2VZ7U85 or by going to the county’s website at www.contracosta.ca.gov.
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Does it matter? The new book ‘Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections’ tells the tale. And now we see the fallout.
. A corrupt Joe Biden with ties to Hunter’s money laundering/art scam.
. Supply chain shortages.
. Weak foreign policy–the Afghanistan fiasco and open borders.
. Walmart and Target leaving San Francisco due to lax law enforcement.
. Education hijacked by the hard left.
. Vaccine mandates that harm local restaurants, undermine the police and create conflicts and unrest.
Contact your Congressman. Oh wait, maybe not. Mark Desaulnier is owned by Nancy Pelosi. And Nancy Pelosi is owned by special interest groups. She is not accountable to the public. Are any of them these days?
You have a clear understanding of the reality of what is happening.
the SEC’s head of market abuse unit that’s supposed to investigate how Pelosi has amassed $100M net worth on a $200k salary is now leading the SEC’s ESG task force to quantify a scoring system ie social credit score on environmental social governance standards.
Concord, Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill, and Clayton had the least amount of growth. That’s hard to believe with the amount of everyday traffic.
Of the 36k population increase in east county, how many jobs were sourced there as well? We are well past due to implement balanced growth in coco. No more bedroom only community building in east county! If you sniff around Walnut Creek, much of the supported jobs are real estate focused. It’s time to add new county job centers, and not appoint lifetime Supervisors who are not demanding balanced growth, or only spend on pet projects in Martinez.
BFF Out!
On the contrary, it’s easy to believe. There is hardly any new development in Central Contra Costa. What few developments that are proposed are immediately opposed by numerous special interest groups in an effort to maintain open space or thwart growth. And when a new development does come to market, it’s in the $1.5 million+ range.
The areas that were once affordable like Pleasant Hill, Martinez and Concord are now either out-of-reach or unlivable due to crime.
The majority of 4-bedroom homes in my area are owned by elderly couples whose children have long since left. Those homes will eventually come on the market, but it will be a while.
All the while the schools are degrading due to unchecked illegal immigration.
The only decent high schools left in Mt. Diablo Unifed are Northgate and College Park. And College Park is on borrowed time.
No wonder Oakley and Brentwood are growing.
Why do they get to draw their own districts? Shouldn’t a non-partisan independent do this? I smell more corruption.
Absolutely! Another scam to benefit dems.
Deep corruption.
In a real Democracy central county would be able to vote to break away from CC and form it’s own cohesive conservative/moderate county
We would be able to then get some representation that works for our interests instead of radical leftists and black communists and middling do nothings that are only looking out for their job security
Not going to happen until their insurrection concludes in failure
( soon hopefully)
Until then we watch in disgust the clown show of a captured corrupt society where illegal immigrants and vote fraud have taken away our representation
Spot on!
This will be interesting, in-that Demcrats already own the County, the redistricting will pit Liberal Dems against Centralist Dems, and that ever decreasing minority , Conservative Dems, it doesn’t matter how it’s sliced up, you get the same old song with the same outcomes
You have a clear understanding of the reality of what is happening.
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