HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-2 - Councilmanic Redistricting Committee• RESOLUTION NO. 2000 - 2
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING
A COUNCILMANIC REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE
WHEREAS, Section 1005 of the Newport Beach City Charter requires the City
Council, every four years, to appoint a committee to study the advisability of redistricting
the City of Newport Beach; and
WHEREAS, the redistricting was last considered by the City Council in 1995; and
WHEREAS, the Charter requires the City Council to appoint a committee to again
consider redistricting.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Newport
Beach hereby establishes the Councilmanic Redistricting Committee.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said Committee is charged with the following
duties and responsibilities:
1. Preparation of a reapportionment plan with alternatives on establishing
district boundaries which, as nearly as practicable, constitute natural areas of contiguous
• and compact territory; and
2. Preparation of a reapportionment plan which will create districts, containing
substantially equal numbers of people, in order to provide fair representation on the City
Council; and
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3. Report back to the City Council for redistricting the City, consistent with this
Resolution.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said Committee shall automatically cease to
exist at such time as the City Council adopts an ordinance changing and redefining the
boundaries of any or all of the seven Councilmanic districts.
ADOPTED this 11th day of January, 2000.
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• STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, LAVONNE M. HARKLESS, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 2000 -2 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the
City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 11th day
of January, 2000, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Thomson, Glover, Adams, Debay, Ridgeway, O'Neil, Mayor Noyes
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
• official seal of said City this 12th day of January, 2000.
(Seal)
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California