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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />MAY 15, 2018 <br />TITLE: <br />PUBLIC HEARING: AMEND COUNCIL WARD <br />BOUNDARIES AND INTRODUCTION OF <br />ORDINANCE TO AMEND SAME <br />(STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 5, 1) <br />1 <br />RECOMMENDED ACTIONS <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on let Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 24d Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Open and close the Public Hearing to obtain input from the community on draft maps for <br />consideration. <br />2. Adjourn the matter to Saturday, May 19, 2018 at 11:30 a.m. in the Southwest Community <br />Center to hold another Public Hearing on same matter; and at said meeting: <br />a. Select preferred Ward map. <br />b. Place ordinance on first reading and authorize publication of title. <br />DISCUSSION <br />At its May 1, 2018, meeting, the City Council adopted a resolution of intention to consider <br />changes to boundary lines of the City wards and fixing the time and place of public hearings <br />to be held with respect to the proposed Ward re -boundary. In accordance with that resolution, <br />the first public hearing was held on May 1, 2018. A second public hearing was noticed for May <br />3, 2018. Although the City Council meeting was not formally convened on May 3rd due lack <br />of a quorum, in order to have as much public input into the re -boundary process as possible, <br />the City's demographer made a presentation to explain the ward boundary adjustment process, <br />and public testimony was received. That testimony, together with the public testimony <br />presented at the May 1st public hearing was considered by the consultant in drafting the <br />proposed Ward maps which are attached as Exhibit 1 to this staff report. <br />The May 15 and 19, 2018 public hearings will allow the City Council as well as the public an <br />opportunity to review and comment on all of the maps as drafted by the consultant, <br />Redistricting Partners. At the conclusion of the May 19, 2018 public hearing, the City Council <br />will have the ability to select the preferred Ward Map and introduce for first reading an <br />ordinance adjusting the ward boundaries in accordance with that map. <br />7513-1 <br />