The city of Concord will start its redistricting process this week with a presentation at a regular City Council meeting followed by two workshops later in November on whether and how City Council district boundaries should be changed.
Concord moved to district elections for its five City Council seats in 2018 in response to letters from attorneys threatening to sue the city and many others around the region, alleging that their at-large systems diluted the ability of minority populations to elect candidates of their choice.
Following the release of 2020 U.S. Census data, the city is required by state law to do public outreach in the redistricting process, the results of which will stay in effect for a decade until the next census count.
At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, city staff will give a presentation on how the process works and what the new Census data shows about local population changes. The council will then determine whether to adjust the boundaries and how to do so, city officials said.
To do that, two virtual workshops will be held on Nov. 15 and Nov. 17 and residents can use mapping tools to propose their own districts and provide feedback on other proposed ones.
Total Scam
The redistricting has already been decided and approved.
Public input is just a way to placate the masses.
Government no longer works for the people,
only for itself.
To heck with this virtual nonsense. All the city leaders that afraid us voicing our concerns at their ineptness?
Yeah most of those attorneys should be disbarred for ignorance under the law.
If the redistricting somehow puts Hoffmeister in a position to get the boot, we are all for it. Edi has appeared to turn recently as well, so hopefully new candidates with real vision can overtake the CPD led leadership and churn out real change the city needs.
BFF Out!
These will be GERRYMANDERED DISTRICTS!!!!! These districts will be drawn around the homes of the 5 Concord City Councilmembers, instead of being drawn in a manner where the homes of the Councilmembers are unknown to those drawing the district boundaries. Keep in mind that when Concord originally went to districts in 2018, then APPOINTED Concord City Councilmember Tim McGallian said districts should be drawn with the homes of sitting Councilmembers in mind because they live far enough away from each other that it wouldn’t cause any problems.