GUSD Draft Trustee Area Maps Presented by Justin Levitt, Vice - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

GUSD Draft Trustee Area Maps

April 5, 2016 Presented by Justin Levitt, Vice President of NDC

• n behalf of NDC and Compass Demographics

Process

April 5, 2016

Date Action

• Jan. 12

Board Consideration & Adoption of mapping criteria & schedule

• Feb. 2

Board approves outreach plan and schedule

• Feb. 12

Draft maps posted to District website

• Feb. 16

Presentation to Board of Draft maps March 10 Public Forum at Roosevelt Middle School March 12 (Sat) Public Forum at GUSD Administration Building (9am) March 16 Public Forum at Crescenta Valley High School March 17 Public Forum at Toll Middle School April 5 Board holds official Public Hearing April 19 Board holds official Public Hearing. Board selection of preferred map. May 3 Board formal adoption of preferred map April, 2017 First three seats elected by trustee area April, 2019 Remaining two seats elected by trustee area

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Districting Criteria

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Equal Population

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Federal Voting Rights Act

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No Racial Gerrymandering

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Communities of interest

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Compact

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Contiguous

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Visible (Natural & man-made) boundaries

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Continuity in office

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Planned future growth

Federal Laws Traditional Redistricting Principles

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Defining Communities

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 There are many ways to define communities  Best way to define a neighborhood remains to hear from the people

who live there

 Some examples of communities of interest could include:

 School attendance areas; housing developments; neighborhoods around parks;

horse-friendly neighborhoods

 Some communities want to be unified to maximize their voice in single

trustee area election. Others (often school attendance areas) want to be divided so they have multiple representatives on the board.

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Spanish & Armenian Spoken at Home

July 14, 2015

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Korean Spoken & Police Commands

July 14, 2015

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GUSD School Attendance Areas

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City Neighborhoods

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Little League Regions

Border between Isabel and Howard Streets. Colorado Blvd Brand Blvd Border at Glorietta Park

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Draft Map Notes

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• All maps are shown overlaid on the

attendance zone map (at right)

• All trustee areas are contiguous and

reasonably population balanced (0.4% to 4.92% per plan)

• All maps are reasonably compact
• All maps respect communities of

interest, but in very different ways

• All maps avoid pairing the trustees

who are not retiring at the end of their current terms

• Oddly-shaped Census Blocks

complicate drawing lines in the hills

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Map A

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• North consolidated in Area 1
• Fremont / Woodlands / Glenoaks

in Area 2

• Glenoaks Blvd is the border

between Areas 3 and 4

• Area 4 is an “I-5 Corridor” area
• Southeast Area 5

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Map B

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• North of Verdugo Wash in Area 1
• Verdugo Woodlands and Glenoaks

form core of Area 2

• Rancho together with the rest of

NW Glendale in Area 3 (west of Pacific and north of Mountain)

• Glendale south of Hwy 134 in

compact east-west Areas 4 and 5 (divided by Colorado)

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Map B vs GCCD Areas

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• GCCD north Area comes farther

south

• Population offset by bringing Area

2 up to Honolulu Blvd in Montrose

• Minor shifts on border between

Areas 2 and 3

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Map C

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• North consolidated in Area 1
• Fremont / Woodlands / Glenoaks

in Area 2

• Railroad is the border between

Areas 3 and 4

• Area 4 is a “central Glendale” Area
• Area 5 is an “I-5 corridor” Area

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Map D

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• Goal is to avoid division of RD White

and unite RD White and Verdugo Woodlands

• North has two trustees areas: 1 and 3
• Area 2 has Verdugo Woodlands,

RD White and Marshall

• Area 3 goes from Glenwood Rd to

north edge of the City

• Area 4 covers from Glenwood Rd

south to Colorado

• Area 5 is compact area south of

Colorado

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Map E

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• Requested by a participant at public forums

who lives in South Glendale

• Asked if the more vertical southern

configuration of Plan A could be used in a revised version of Plan D

• Border between Areas 3 and 4 is Glendoaks
• Border in north between 1 and 3 is the City

border

• Area 2 has a population-balancing

‘bump’ in the west to Pacific Ave.

• Area 5 has the part of the Glenoaks

attendance zone south of Hwy 134, rather than a piece of RD White, to reach population balance

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Public Forum feedback

April 5, 2016

 Very thoughtful, detailed discussions  Limited audience sizes – about 40 or 45 total attendees across

the 4 forums

 “Dot voting” and ranking of maps on the public comment

forms provides general thoughts

 Detailed tallies and specific public comments are included in the

agenda report

 Maps A received the most “best map” or dot votes in this far-

from-scientific nor comprehensive tally

 Map D was 2nd in “best map” or dot votes; but Map D also, by

far, received the most “worst map” votes

 Unusual polarization of Map D response, which by extension would also

reflect on Map E

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Next Steps

April 5, 2016

 Tonight: Public Hearing and discussion of map details; direction

• n any new maps; possible narrowing of maps for consideration

April 19th

 April 19th: Public hearing and Board selects its preferred map  May 3rd: Public hearing and Board adopts final map resolution

Date Action April 19 Board holds official Public Hearing. Board selection of preferred map. May 3 Board formal adoption of preferred map April, 2017 First three seats elected by trustee area April, 2019 Remaining two seats elected by trustee area

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