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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />NOVEMBER 7, 2011 <br />TITLE: <br />SET A PUBLIC HEARING DATE TO <br />CONSIDER CHANGING THE BOUNDARY <br />LINES OF COUNCIL WARDS <br />�1 <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 1" Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For_, <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />1. Adopt a resolution to consider changing the existing boundary lines of Council Wards. <br />2. Set a public hearing date for December 5, 2011. <br />DISCUSSION <br />Following each Federal Census, the City of Santa Ana Charter requires that the City review the <br />total population data by ward and consider re- aligning to balance each ward in equal population <br />numbers. A City Council ad -hoc committee, comprised of council members Benavides, Martinez, <br />and Tina}ero, reviewed the 2010 U.S. Census data and recommends changing the boundary <br />lines of Council Wards. <br />The re- boundary process is specifically addressed in the City's Charter, as follow: <br />Sec. 101.1. - Wards of the city. <br />Prior to the general election in 1988 the City Council shall divide the City into six (6) wards <br />by ordinance according to the following formula: <br />Each of the wards is to be as nearly equal in population as possible. The wards shall be <br />composed of contiguous and compact territory and bounded by natural boundaries of <br />street lines wherever possible. Any territory hereafter annexed to or consolidated with the <br />City shall become a part of the ward to which it is most contiguous, pending any <br />redistricting necessary to promote equality of population among the wards. <br />(Ord. No. NS -1316, 8- 24 -76, approved at election 11 -2 -76; Ord. No. NS -1521, 3- 17 -80, approved at election 6 -3 -80; Ord. <br />No. NS -1864, 8- 19 -86, approved at election 11 -4 -86) <br />12B -1 <br />