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El Dorado County Surveyor, Registrar of Voters, County Counsel, and the Chief Administrative Office recommending the Board Approve the Final Passage (Second Reading) of Ordinance 5155 amending the Existing Supervisorial District Boundaries to those Shown on the Map entitled "Official Map, Supervisorial District Boundaries, adopted December 2021. (Cont. 12/7/2021, Item 50)
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DISCUSSION/BACKGROUND
On December 7, 2021, the Board Continued Ordinance 5155 to December 14, 2021 for Final Passage (Second Reading).
The United States Constitution requires a count every ten (10) years of everyone residing in the United States. Census data is used for geographically defining state legislative districts in the year following a census. At the conclusion of each United States of America Census process, the County must conduct a process to analyze population data in order to redraw district boundaries to ensure that districts are substantially equal in population as required by the United States Constitution and in compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. According to the 2020 census data, the total county population equals 191,185, which means each of the five supervisor districts in every alternative has a target population of 38,237.
The County must consider the following factors in order of priority:
1. Geographic contiguity
2. Geographic integrity of any local neighborhood or local communities of interest.
3. Geographic integrity of any cities or census-designated places.
4. Easily identifiable and understandable districts bound by natural and artificial barriers, including streets and boundaries of the county when practicable.
5. Encouraging geographical compactness so that nearby areas of population are not bypassed in favor of more distant populations.
The Elections Code also specifies that the Board shall not adopt supervisorial district boundaries for the purpose of favoring or discriminat...
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