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File #: 20-485    Version: Name:
Type: Informational Report Status: Passed
File created: 8/19/2020 In control: Council Work Session
On agenda: 11/23/2020 Final action: 11/23/2020
Title: Districting Process Advisory Committee FInal Report to City Council and City Clerk Presenter: Carlos Perez, District 2 Representative and Chair of the Committee
Attachments: 1. DPAC 2020 Redistricting Final Report, 2. City ClerkFinal Plan - Redistricting Report, 3. DPAC2020 Redistricting Preliminary Report - FINAL 20200916

Title
Districting Process Advisory Committee FInal Report to City Council and City Clerk

Presenter:
Carlos Perez, District 2 Representative and Chair of the Committee

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Summary:
City Council, in accordance with City Code Section 5.1.302, convened a Districting Process Advisory Committee (DPAC) by appointing seven committee members this past April, which serves as an advisory committee to oversee the public process, educate the public, assist the City Clerk, and advise City Council on the districting process. By City Charter and City Code, The City Clerk is to review the six City Council districts every four years in the even year before district Councilmembers are elected.

Background:
The City of Colorado Springs has a Council-Mayor form of government. The nine member City Council acts as the City's legislative body and the members are elected by the people to serve a four year term of office. The nine members include three at-large members and six district members. The Mayor, a fulltime position, acts as the Chief Executive Officer of the City and is elected by the people to serve a four year term of office.

The DPAC consists of one member from each of the six council districts and one member at-large, all of whom are registered electors of the city. City Council is required to strive for gender, racial, ethnic, age and geographic diversity of the committee members. The Committee will prepare a final Advisory Committee report and submit it to City Council in December.

City Charter requires the City Clerk to review the six City Council district boundaries every four years. Neither City Council nor the Mayor has approval authority over any plan relating to district boundaries. Some relevant details regarding the districting process are as follows:
? Only complete precincts will be moved from one district to another.
? The Clerk will release a preliminary district report in October and will hold a public hearing in October.
? The Clerk wil...

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