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BE IT FURTHER RESOLV~D: _~aat Sections 101.1, 101.2 and 401~1 of the Charter of theCity of S~ta Ana be amended to read as follows: "SECTION i01.1. ~¥ARDS OF THE CITY The City Council shall divide the City into five Wards by ordinance according to the following fonuula: "Esch of the five Wards is to be as nearly equal in number of registered Voters as possible. The ~ards shall be com- posed of contiguous and compact territory and bounded by natural boundaries c~ street lines wherever possible; provided however, that in laying out such wards no precinct at the time fixed by the Board of Supervisors of Orange County shall be divided, and further provided that in event said Board of Supervisors shall, at least sixty days before a Oeneral Hunicipal E~ction, re-~ecinct tho City with tho result that ~ y ~recinct is divided by a ~ard lino, tho City Council shall, not loss than thirty days prior to said General ~unicipal E~ction, modify said ~ard lines to an extent sufficient to prevent the division of any precinct by a ~Vard linc. ~ny territory hereafter anno ~ed to or consolidated with ~eCity shall become a part of the Ward to ~ich it is contiguous, provided however, that if any berritory ~nexed at one time shall contain registered electors in excess of twenty-five hundred as determined by the registration books of the County of Or~ge at the time of such annexation, the City Council shall, ~ithin ninety days after said annexation, redistrict the City in the manner prescribed in this Section aa d pursuant to notice and hearin~ as required by Section lO1.4. "SECTION 101.2. WARDS, BOUNDARY CH~2~GES. "The boundary lines of wards shall be changed every two years by ordinance enacted by a four-fifths vote of the City Council, not less than ninety days prior to the General Nuni~ipal Election to be held the first Tuesday of April in each odd numbered year. The boundary line~ shall be adjusted mo that at each adjustment no Ward sh~ll vary from any other Ward by more than ten percent of the registered electors of any of said Wards. If during the preceeding t~ years there shall not have been a change of registered elector population in any ~ard to cause it to vary by ten percent or more from any other Ward, then no change of Ward lines shall be made. Notice ~ d public hearin~ sh~ll be provided as required by Section 101.4. Page -2-