Contra Costa County will host a public hearing on Tuesday to kick off its redistricting process, which occurs every 10 years.
In alliance with U.S. Census data, counties must redraw their supervisorial districts to ensure each section is equal in population. The 2020 U.S. Census data is to be released on Sept. 30, but county officials plan to move ahead with resident input beforehand.
“The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors is committed to a robust redistricting and public outreach process with public hearings, public workshops, and a website with resources, including online mapping tools,” said Board Chair and Supervisor Diane Burgis. “We will seek community input in selecting the next district map for supervisorial districts in our county and look forward to engaging the public in this important endeavor.”
The hearing will include an overview of the process and its respective county website, an explanation on planned public outreach and more information on how the public can submit draft maps once Census data is released.
The hearing will be at 9 a.m. during the county’s Board of Supervisors meeting, available to watch virtually on the county’s webpage, contracosta.ca.gov.
More information on the redistricting process can be found at cocoredistricting.org.
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I’m cynical when it comes to the process…. Let’s rename it to “Gerrymandering 101” since it will likely result in parsing and effectively canceling out
conservative and moderate populated areas.
According to the current map on the linked website districts 2,3,4 would seem to be conservative leaning areas and thus should have a majority vote in the decision making process with 3 out of 5 districts
Why do we always have these extreme liberal decisions by the board?
Is it the district map or the individual board members that are the problem?
Why can’t the current board expand the number of DA to 2 and give central county its own law and order DA?
Why are they always forming alliance with the inner city counties in health department, transportation and development
What is the point of having county supervisors if they are just going to be subsumed by the inner city liberals?
Contra Costa is a conservative majority county and they are not representing us in an effective manner
Contra Costa hasn’t had a conservative majority in decades. Danville, historically the most conservative city in Contra Costa, split 34% dem and 34% repub in 2019, with 26% undeclared that almost always vote dem.
The county as a whole, in terms of presidential elections, have favored the dem candidate from 55% in 1996 to 71% in 2020.
The repubs don’t even bother running candidates for state and federal office in many Contra Costa cities because they know they don’t have a chance in hell.
Contra Costa is solidly in dem hands and it’s been that way since the 1990s if not before.
I recall twentyish years ago some Claytonoids wanted to sit at the rich kids’ table and redistrict their way into Blackhawk. That would be some incredible gerrymandering, unless maybe one Mt Diablo ranger declared their residency at the park. Perhaps this time they’ll get to decouple from the hated Concord and join with their neighbor Brentwood, and the rest of East County.
Why bother at all?
The only people represented are the people who pay the most money to be represented.
The rest of us are ignored and treated like annoyances.
it is the only way for the Democrats to win, by cheating.
Gerrymandering districts is anti democratic and abuses minority voters who historically get cut out of the deal. A more representative system would be to eliminate districts all together and and have one large district with 5 or more members that can appeal to voters across the county using single transferable vote. This way conservatives in Danville could vote for candidates from Antioch and Richmond. If all supes, have to gain seats from across the county the politics of divide and conquer would be crippled (but not gone). Plus if your area lib you might support multiple candidates that wave that flag. Better to have voters choose representatives not politicians.
“How do we redraw them so we all keep our jobs?”
Answer: Pay a consultant to take the guess work out of the equation.