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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />MAY 1, 2018 <br />TITLE: <br />PUBLIC HEARING: ADOPT A RESOLUTION <br />DECLARING INTENT TO CHANGE THE WARD <br />BOUNDARIES; HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS 1 <br />AND 2 ON MAY 1, 2018 AND MAY 3, 2018 <br />RESPECTIVELY; AND ADOPT RESOLUTION <br />DECLARING INTENT TO PLACE A CHARTER <br />AMENDMENT FOR VOTER CONSIDERATION <br />REGARDING BY -WARD ELECTIONS <br />(STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 5, 1) <br />RECOMMENDED ACTIONS: <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 18' Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Adopt a resolution declaring the City's intention to place a Charter Amendment for voter <br />consideration on the November 6, 2018 General Municipal Election to change from at - <br />large to By -Ward Elections for councilmembers. <br />2. Adopt a resolution declaring the City's intention to consider changes to boundary lines of <br />Wards and fixing the time and place of said Hearings to be held on May 1, May 3, May <br />15, May 19 and June 5, 2018. <br />3. Open and Close the first Public Hearing that will explain the re -boundary process, review <br />the criteria used to modify Ward boundaries, and allow residents to submit their ideas for <br />potential "communities of interest" to consider in the new boundaries. <br />4. Adjourn the matter to May 3, 2018 at 5:00 in the Council Chamber to hold the second <br />Public Hearing on Ward Re -Boundary process. <br />DISCUSSION <br />By certified letter received on March 14, 2018, the Asian -Americans Advancing Justice advised <br />the City that it believes the City's current at -large method of electing City Councilmembers <br />violates the California Voting Rights Act ("CVRA"). <br />On April, 17, 2018, staff received Council direction to prepare the necessary resolutions to <br />place a Charter amendment before the voters at the November 6, 2018 General Municipal <br />Election to transition from at -large to By -Ward Election of Santa Ana City Councilmembers. <br />7513-1 <br />