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BUT I WILL CHANGE MY POSITION.
OKAY. SO IT IS 4:45 AND I LIKE TO CALL THIS WORK SESSION TO ORDER.
[1. Call to Order]
YOU CAN TURN IT OVER TO ME.AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO SUPERINTENDENT WATERS.
[2. Work Session]
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.EVERY TEN YEARS PER THE CENSUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE REQUIRED TO REDISTRICT THE SCHOOL BOARD DIRECTOR DISTRICTS AND BATTLEGROUND PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS ENGAGED THE SERVICES OF A COMPANY BY THE NAME OF FLO ANALYTICS, WHO DOES THIS WORK.
AND WE'RE JOINED TODAY BY [INAUDIBLE].
AND [INAUDIBLE] IS GOING TO KIND OF RUN US THROUGH WHAT THE WORK ENTAILS, INCLUDING THE TIMELINE, THE REDISTRICTING REQUIREMENTS, HOW YOU POPULATION BALANCE, THE CRITERIA THAT'S INVOLVED HERE, AND THEN PROVIDE US WITH SOME SCENARIOS FOR THE BOARD TO CONSIDER AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS AND PRESENT THIS PLAN TO THE PUBLIC.
SO WITH THAT, I AM GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO [INAUDIBLE].
[INAUDIBLE] THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY.
ALL RIGHT. WELL DONE. OH, THERE YOU GO.
THERE YOU GO [INAUDIBLE] YOU'RE LIVE NOW.
OKAY, EVERYONE HEAR ME OKAY? YES. OKAY.
WONDERFUL. THANK YOU ALL FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY ON THIS STRANGELY SNOWY DAY.
REALLY APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT TO YOU THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS, THE OVERVIEW, AND LOOK INSIDE SOME OF THOSE INITIAL [INAUDIBLE].
SO I HAVE GOT A PRESENTATION THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU SEE THAT ALREADY.
WONDERFUL. AND I CAN'T SEE YOU ALSO.
IF I WOULD, IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND SOMETHING THAT I'M SAYING, FEEL FREE TO JUST LET ME KNOW. WELL, THANK YOU AGAIN.
TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF DISTRICTS REDISTRICTING.
THE FIRST THING THAT I REALLY WANT TO EMPHASIZE, THAT IT'S NOT EMPHASIZED ENOUGH WITH THE RED AND THE OTHER LINES AND ASTERISKS, IS THAT THIS WILL NOT AFFECT WHERE YOUR STUDENTS ATTENDING SCHOOL. THIS IS NOT A BOUNDARY REVIEW.
IT'S NOT CHANGING OF ANY OF THESE AREAS.
THIS IS MERELY JUST AFFECTING THE SCHOOL BOARD DIRECTOR DISTRICTS.
SO, AGAIN, NOT ATTENDANCE AREAS.
I'LL BE REMINDING YOU OF THAT THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS, BECAUSE IT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT PIECE FOR THE FOLKS HERE, REDISTRICTING.
I KNOW THAT PARENTS AND GUARDIANS MAY BE TAKEN ABACK BY THAT BY THAT TERM.
SO JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR, THIS IS JUST THE SCHOOL BOARD.
SO A HIGH LEVEL LOOK AT THIS PROCESS IS START FLOW STARTS AT THE BEGINNING WITH DATA COLLECTION. SO WE'RE TAKING IN THE CENSUS DATA, THE DECENNIAL CENSUS FROM 2020 THAT WAS RELEASED LATE LAST YEAR.
WE TAKE IN THE CENSUS DATA, WE TAKE IN THE ACTUAL GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES OF [INAUDIBLE] DISTRICTS AND THEN A BUNCH OF OTHER SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION LIKE MUNICIPALITIES, TRIBAL LANDS, THAT SORT OF THING.
AND THEN WE KIND OF TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR BASELINE CONDITIONS, WHERE YOU ARE NOW, WHERE YOU'VE GROWN THROUGHOUT THE LAST TEN YEARS.
AND WE TAKE OUR FIRST SHOT AT GIVING YOU A COUPLE SCENARIOS THAT ARE POPULATION BALANCED.
THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE DRAFT MAP, THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE FINAL MAPS.
THEY'RE MEANT TO ELICIT CONVERSATION, SUGGESTION FROM YOU ALL TO WHERE YOU REALLY WANT THESE MAPS TO GO.
THE SPRING BOARDS [INAUDIBLE], THE JUMPING POINT.
SO WE'RE GOING TO PRESENT THOSE SPRING BOARDS OR INITIAL SCENARIOS TONIGHT FOR YOU ALL.
AND THEN FROM THOSE OR A VARIATION OF THOSE, YOU'LL COME TO DECIDE ON YOUR DRAFT MAP OR DRAFT MAPS AND THEN HAVE A COUPLE HAVE ONE.
IT IS MERELY UP TO YOU ALL TO DECIDE IN THE HOPES IN HAVING THIS WORKSHOP AND THIS MEETING IS THAT YOU ALL CAN COME TO A CONCEPT OR AN IDEA OF WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT AS DRAFT MAPS OR DRAFT MAP.
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AND THEN FROM THOSE DRAFT MAPS OR DRAFT MAP YOU'RE GOING TO THAT'LL PUSH TOWARDS REFINING THAT THAT YOU'LL ADOPT FOR YOUR FINAL DIRECTOR DISTRICTS.THROUGHOUT THE STEPS TWO, THREE, AND FOUR.
WE REALLY WANT TO ATTEMPT TO GET PUBLIC TESTIMONY TO HEAR WHAT THE PUBLIC THINKS ABOUT THE MAPS, TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY CHANGES THAT THEY WOULD SUGGEST ON MAP.
AND SO WE'LL BE FOLLOWING MORE COMMENTS IN BOTH TESTIMONY AT THE DRAFT MAPPING [INAUDIBLE] TIMELINE NEXT.
SO THE REDISTRICTING TIMELINE.
SO AGAIN, THE PHASES ARE IN COLOR HERE.
WE STARTED THIS BACK IN MARCH, REALLY STARTED LOOKING INTO STUFF ACTUALLY, LAST YEAR, BUT REALLY PUTTING EVERYTHING TOGETHER IN EARLY MARCH AND THEN DEVELOPING THE DRAFT SCENARIOS OR I SHOULD SAY SPRINGBOARDS HERE.
AND WE ARE AT THE SPRING BOARD SCENARIO WORKSHOP TODAY AND THEN CHOOSE SOME DRAFT MAPS OR DRAFT MAP TO BE PUBLISHED ON APRIL 16TH FOR THE PUBLIC TO REVIEW AND BE ABLE TO MAKE COMMENT ABOUT.
AND THEN WE'LL PRESENT THOSE DRAFT MAPS ON APRIL 25TH AT A BOARD MEETING THAT WILL BE THE OFFICIAL PUBLIC TESTIMONY HEARING FOR THE DRAFT MAPS.
SO REALLY WANT TO HEAR VERBAL TESTIMONY, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE.
AND THAT'S THE [INAUDIBLE] TO DO THAT.
DEPENDING ON WHAT WE HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC AND FROM YOU ALL AND FROM THE ADMINISTRATION, WE'LL GET SOME INFORMATION ON WHICH DRAFT MAP IS COMING TO THE TOP OR IF THERE'S A VERSION OF THOSE DRAFT MAPS THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO BE REVISED INTO A FINAL MAP.
THAT FINAL MAP WILL BE PUBLISHED ON MAY 9TH FOR A FINAL REDISTRICTING MAP ADOPTION ON THE 15TH. THE IMPORTANT PIECE HERE IS THAT ONCE THE FINAL MAP HAS BEEN PUBLISHED, IT CANNOT CHANGE PRIOR TO ADOPTION.
IF IT DOES CHANGE, IT CHANGES THE TIMELINE A BIT, AND WE CANNOT CHANGE A FINAL MAP LESS THAN SEVEN DAYS PRIOR TO ADOPTION.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC SOMETIME TO THAT FINAL [INAUDIBLE] AND THEN ADDITIONAL SUPPORT AS [INAUDIBLE].
SO THAT IS THE TIMELINE OF THE PHASES.
AND THEN I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT THESE TRIANGLES AREN'T THOSE MILESTONES.
SO REDISTRICTING REQUIREMENTS.
SO THE CRITERIA THAT WE'RE GOING TO REVIEW THIS MEETING IS PRIMARILY MUST AND CONCERNS.
THE MUST ARE WE GOT TO HAVE YOUR DISTRICTS POPULATION [INAUDIBLE] AND I'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS IN A MINUTE BUT THAT'S A REALLY BIG ONE THAT GOES DIRECTLY THROUGH THE FEDERAL VOTING RIGHTS ACT. SO YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE REPRESENTING AS EQUAL MEMBERS AND POPULATION AS POSSIBLE.
[INAUDIBLE] DISTRICTS MUST BE CONTIGUOUS, MEANING THAT YOU SHOULDN'T YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO JUMP OVER A DISTRICT AND GRAB AN ISLAND POPULATION TO BRING YOU UP TO POPULATION EQUALITY. SO NO ISLANDS OF POPULATION.
REDISTRICTING MUST BE DRAWN IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS.
AND WE'RE DOING THAT WITH THIS PROCESS.
REDISTRICTING MUST NOT BE DONE TO FAVOR OR DISFAVOR A POLITICAL PARTY.
I'M JUST GOING TO STOP RIGHT NOW AND LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT FLOWS HELPED OUT A LOT OF SCHOOL BOARDS WITH THEIR REDISTRICTING.
YOU DO NOT WORK FOR ANY POLITICAL PARTY.
WE ARE MERELY LOOKING AT CENSUS BLOCK, TOTAL POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS TO TRY TO EQUALIZE POPULATION.
DISTRICTS SHOULD BE AS COMPACT AS POSSIBLE, WHICH IS QUITE DIFFICULT WHEN YOU HAVE DISTRICTS LIKE YOURS.
WE RUN INTO THIS A LOT, ESPECIALLY DISTRICTS IN WHICH A LOT OF TIMES JUST NOT POSSIBLE.
SO WE USE THIS [INAUDIBLE] MEASURE IS ALMOST A COMPARATIVE MEASURE, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT TWO DRAFT MAPS OR TWO SCENARIOS.
YOU CAN SEE WHICH ONES ARE MORE COMPACT THAN OTHERS.
REDISTRICTING SHOULD PRESERVE COMMUNITIES OF MUTUAL INTEREST, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE AS WELL.
DISTRICTS TO PRESERVE USE OF EXISTING NATURAL BOUNDARIES, AND I MIGHT SAY ARTIFICIAL ROADS AS WELL. AND THIS IS KIND OF BUILT IN FROM THE LOOK AT THE CENSUS BLOCKS.
THE CENSUS BLOCKS ARE THE GEOGRAPHIES THAT WE'RE UTILIZING FROM THE 2020 CENSUS.
AND THOSE ARE THE BUILDING BLOCKS THAT WE USE TO CREATE EACH OF YOUR DISTRICTS.
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AND THE DISTRICTS SHOULD NOT SPLIT CENSUS BLOCKS.AGAIN, THOSE BUILDING BLOCKS, THOSE GEOGRAPHIES, WE CAN'T GUARANTEE THAT THE DEMOGRAPHICS WITHIN THOSE CENSUS BLOCKS.
SO IF YOU WERE TO SPLIT THE CENSUS BLOCK, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE DEMOGRAPHICS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF POPULATION IS ON EITHER SIDE.
SO WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO SPLIT CENSUS BLOCKS.
SO WHAT IS POPULATION BALANCING? SO WHEN BALANCING POPULATION, IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT WE CONSIDER TOTAL POPULATION, NOT CITIZENS OF THE POPULATION.
WE WERE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO JUST REFLECT THAT PRINCIPLE THAT WE'D LIKE TO BE A BODY REPRESENTING ALL ETHNICITIES, NOT JUST THOSE WHO VOTE OR AREN'T ELIGIBLE TO VOTE.
A KEY METRIC IS THE DEVIATION RANGE.
AND SO WE'LL TALK A LOT ABOUT THIS OF WHAT THE TOTAL DEVIATION OF DEVIATION RANGE POPULATION DEVIATION ALL THOSE KINDS OF TERMS, BASICALLY TALKING ABOUT HOW PEOPLE, [INAUDIBLE] SO WE GET THIS DEVIATION RANGE BY YOU HAVE FIVE DISTRICTS, SO WE TAKE THE TOTAL POPULATION FOR THE 2020 CENSUS OF YOUR DISTRICT AND WE DIVIDE IT BY FIVE.
THAT GIVES US THE IDEAL POPULATION.
AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT WHAT POPULATION EACH DISTRICT IS CURRENTLY AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE DEVIATION FROM THE IDEAL LINE.
SO WE'RE GOING TO ADD THE PERCENTAGE OVER THE IDEAL LINE, PLUS THE PERCENTAGE UNDER THAT IDEAL POPULATION, THAT'S GOING TO GIVE US OUR TOTAL POPULATION DEVIATION OR RANGE.
THAT'S THE NUMBER THAT WE REALLY WANT UNDER 10%.
BUT REALLY IT SHOULDN'T BE UNDER 5% THAT IT DOESN'T GIVE YOU A SAFE HARBOR.
BUT WE SEE A LOT LESS LEGAL CHALLENGES NOT SAYING WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU ALL.
BUT WE DO SEE A LOT LESS LEGAL CHALLENGES WHEN YOU'RE UNDER 5%.
IT ALSO MEANS THAT YOUR GROUP THAT YOU ARE REPRESENTING, [INAUDIBLE] ALWAYS ASPIRE TO IS 0%. BUT YOU DO WANT TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION OTHER FACTORS.
SO THIS IS JUST A LITTLE VISUAL OF SOME OF THOSE INSURANCE THAT CONTIGUITY SHOWING THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO JUMP OVER A DISTRICT AND GRAB [INAUDIBLE] POPULATION YOU NEED TO BE CONTIGUOUS. YOU WANT TO STAY COMPACT, SO YOU WANT TO STAY AWAY FROM TENDRILS [INAUDIBLE] GERRYMANDERED SHAPES.
AGAIN, THAT KIND OF GOES TO THE CONTIGUITY, BUT YOU WANT TO BE COMPACT AS POSSIBLE AND THEN YOU SHOULD FOLLOW EXISTING NATURAL BOUNDARIES.
AND AGAIN, THE CENSUS BLOCKS UTILIZE SOME OF THOSE FEATURES.
AND SO THAT'S GOING TO BE BUILT INTO PROCESSES.
THERE'S ALREADY COMMUNITIES. SO COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST ARE THIS IS A DEFINITION FOR WHAT A COMMUNITY OF MUTUAL INTEREST IS.
BUT WHAT I THINK OF IS I KNOW WHAT MY COMMUNITY IS BASED ON WHAT'S IN MY HEAD, IN THE GEOGRAPHY, AND MY NEIGHBOR MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT SENSE OF COMMUNITY.
BUT IF YOU DRAW THEM BACK TO SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR, WHAT WE UTILIZE IN GIS OR COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN READILY FIND THAT ARE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE, LIKE CITIES AND TOWNS, NEIGHBORHOODS, CENSUS-DESIGNATED PLACES, UTILITY DISTRICTS, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE KIND OF LOOKING AT WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION COMMUNITIES AND [INAUDIBLE].
THIS IS THE PIECE THAT WE REALLY WOULD LIKE TO REMOVE FROM THE PUBLIC.
IF WE'VE DRAWN THE LINE DOWN YOUR COMMUNITY AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET FULLY UNEQUIVOCAL TESTIMONY FROM [INAUDIBLE] KEEP IN MIND THAT KEEPING COMMUNITIES OF MUTUAL INTEREST TOGETHER IS IMPORTANT.
BUT IT IS A SHOULD, AND IT CAN'T BE DONE AT MAKING POPULATION MORE UNBALANCED.
SO WE WANT TO KEEP THAT IN MIND.
IF THERE'S A WAY TO KEEP COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST TOGETHER AND KEEP THAT POPULATION BALANCE, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY WANT TO GO FORWARD.
AND SO THIS IS A LOOK AT WHAT EXISTING SCHOOL BOARD DIRECTOR DISTRICTS AND AS WE GO THROUGH THIS. I'M JUST GOING TO GO THROUGH THE MAP QUICKLY.
WE'VE GOT THIS DARK BLUE LINE SHOWING YOUR EXISTING DIRECTOR DISTRICTS.
YOU CAN ALSO SEE IF THE STATE IS THE COLOR BLOCK UNDERNEATH.
SO IN THIS EXISTING MAP, YOU'LL SEE THAT EXISTING DIRECTOR OF DISTRICT TWO, IT IS SHAPED
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LIKE THIS WITH THE DARK BLUE OUTLINE AND THE YELLOW MUST HAVE PUBLIC COLOR UNDERNEATH.AS YOU GO THROUGH AND LOOK AT SCENARIOS.
THE DARK BLUE LINE IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE, BUT IS GOING TO CHANGE AND BE REPRESENTED IN POPULATION FIRST AND HERE IS GOING TO BE THE COLORED LINE.
SO THE COLOR BLOCK IS GOING TO CHANGE.
IF THIS AREA IS MOVING FROM, SAY, 2 TO 4, THEN THIS AREA WOULD CHANGE TO THIS DARK RED.
SO I'LL GO THROUGH THAT AGAIN WHEN WE START OF THESE SCENARIOS.
BUT JUST TO GET YOUR BRAIN THINKING IN HOW [INAUDIBLE] TO REPRESENT [INAUDIBLE].
AND SO THIS IS WHERE YOU CURRENTLY ARE.
YOUR IDEAL POPULATION PER DISTRICT IS 16,505 PEOPLE.
THAT'S THE MAGICAL IDEAL NUMBER THAT WE WANT TO STRIVE FOR.
WE'VE WORKED WITH DISTRICTS THAT HAVE BEEN OVER 90%.
SO IT'S NOT THE HIGHEST THAT WE'VE SEEN.
AND YOU HAVE A LOT OF AREAS THAT WE CAN UTILIZE TO TRY TO POPULATION NUMBERS.
BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT GETTING FROM 46.1 DOWN TO UNDER 10% IN BROOKLYN UNDER 5%, THAT'S GOING TO COME WITH A LOT OF COMPROMISE.
AND SO I JUST WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE THAT GOING INTO THIS, YOU ALL HAVE A DISTRICT WIDE PERSPECTIVE ALREADY.
BUT I JUST WANT THAT TO BE SAID THAT THERE IS A LOT OF CHANGE THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IN ORDER TO GIVE THESE DISTRICTS AND [INAUDIBLE].
THIS NUMBER, THIS 46% IS COMING FROM THE THE HIGHEST OR THE HIGHEST OR THE LOWEST UNDER THE POPULATION, [INAUDIBLE] POPULATION, WHICH IS DISTRICT ONE, WHICH IS CURRENTLY SITTING ON 2,421 PEOPLE UNDER THAT IDEAL POPULATION.
SO THAT UNDER [INAUDIBLE] AND THEN THE HIGHEST OVER IS DISTRICT FOUR HERE WITH 5,133 OVER THAT IDEAL POPULATION LINE, OR FOR THE PERCENT OF THAT DEVIATION OF 31%.
SO WE GET THE 46.1% BY ADDING 31.5% PLUS THE 14.7% IS AROUND THE AREA ERROR AND YOU GET THAT [INAUDIBLE].
AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT WHY ESSENTIALLY.
RIGHT. WHY IS I THINK IT'S PRETTY OBVIOUS TO YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE PRETTY KEYED INTO YOUR DISTRICT. BUT WE'LL LOOK AT GROWTH WITHIN THE DISTRICT THE LAST TWO YEARS.
IT'S OBVIOUS BY THESE NUMBERS THAT THE DISTRICT BOARD HAS GROWN MUCH LARGER OR A MUCH FASTER RATE THAN THE OTHER DISTRICTS.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN MIND THAT DISTRICT FIVE IS IT'S IN A VERY GOOD SPOT WITH [INAUDIBLE].
BUT I ALSO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN MIND HERE THAT ESSENTIALLY DISTRICT FOUR IS GOING TO HAVE TO CEDE POPULATION TO DISTRICTS ONE, TWO, AND THREE.
AND SO IN ORDER TO DO THAT FOR A POPULATION DIRECTLY TO THE DISTRICT TWO.
YOU CAN SEE POPULATION DIRECTLY TO DISTRICT THREE, BUT IT CAN'T BE POPULATION GROWTH INTO DISTRICT FOUR, DISTRICT ONE.
THE DISTRICT ONE CAN JUMP OVER AND JUST GRAB THE POPULATION.
SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MOVE SOME POPULATION THROUGH EITHER DISTRICT THREE OR DISTRICT TWO OR A COMBINATION OF BOTH TO GET UP TO THE DISTRICT.
SO REBUILD DISTRICT SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE POPULATION GROWTH NOW, AGAIN, THAT DARK-BLUE LINE IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE. THIS IS SHOWING IT'S STILL TWO HERE.
DISTRICT ONE UP HERE, DISTRICT THREE IN THE MIDDLE OF DISTRICT FOUR, [INAUDIBLE] DISTRICT FIVE. AND SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THE THE DARKER THE PURPLE, THE HIGHER THE GROWTH IN THE LAST TEN YEARS. SO THE DARK PURPLE BLOCKS AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS THE CENSUS BLOCK. THESE ARE THE BUILDING BLOCKS THAT CAN BE VERY [INAUDIBLE] SHAPED.
AND WE CAN GET IN THERE AND LOOK AT IT IN MORE DEPTH.
YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS THIS WHOLE THING IS A CENSUS BLOCK AND THIS TINY LITTLE RECTANGLE HERE IS ALSO A CENSUS BLOCK.
SO IT IS REPRESENTING A NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND A PERCENTAGE OF DEMOGRAPHICS FROM.
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BUT YOU SEE THE HIGHER GROWTH BLOCKS ARE DOWN HERE MOSTLY IN DISTRICTS FOUR OR FIVE AND A LITTLE BIT IN THREE. THE [INAUDIBLE] THE LESS LARGER THE GROWTH IS BUT STILL GROWTH.AND THEN WHEN YOU WORK IT INTO BROWN OR BEIGE, YOU SEE THAT POPULATION THAT HAS BEEN LOST IN THOSE BLOCKS.
SO THIS LATER ORANGE IS HAS DECLINED BY ANYWHERE 0 TO 50 PEOPLE.
AND THESE DARKER BLOCKS, THERE'S A COUPLE IN DISTRICT TWO AND HERE IN DISTRICT THREE THOSE HAVE LOST POPULATION AND SO YOU CAN SEE AND AGAIN, SHOULDN'T BE A SURPRISE TO YOU ALL THAT DISTRICT FOUR HAS EXPERIENCED THE MOST GROWTH.
NO DISTRICT HAS LOST ANY PEOPLE OVERALL IN THE LAST TEN YEARS.
IT'S JUST THAT DISTRICT FOUR HAS GROWN BY 9,132 RESIDENTS.
AND DISTRICT ONE HAS NOT GROWN AS FAST AS ONLY GROWN BY 867 PEOPLE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS.
SO THAT'S A PRETTY BIG DIFFERENCE IN GROWTH.
YOU CAN SEE DISTRICTS TWO AND THREE HAVE ALSO GROWN, BUT NOT AT THE SAME RATE AS DISTRICT FOUR. AND THEN DISTRICT FIVE HAS GROWN AT A PRETTY STEADY RATE.
AND SO THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T HAVE SO MUCH OF AN ISSUE WITH DISTRICT FIVE WITH THIS POPULATION THESE ARE THE NUMBERS FROM 2010 CENSUS.
AND THESE ARE THE NUMBERS FROM THE 2020.
SO WITH THAT IN MIND, WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH INITIAL SCENARIOS AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE DIRECTION THAT WE TOOK WITH EACH OF THESE.
KEEP IN MIND, THERE'S NOT A TON OF DETAIL IN EACH OF THESE, BUT I DO HAVE MY PROGRAM ON MY COMPUTER THAT WE CAN ZOOM IN AND OUT OF PARTICULAR CHANGE AREAS IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THOSE MORE CLOSELY. SO WE'LL DO THAT WHEN WE START THE DISCUSSION.
AND AGAIN, THIS IS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SCHOOL BOARD DIRECTOR DISTRICTS ONLY NOT NOT ATTENDANCE [INAUDIBLE]. SO THIS WILL NOT CHANGE [INAUDIBLE].
AND IF WE CAN JUST GO BACK TO THE MAP HERE, IF I CAN EXPLAIN IT AGAIN, THE DARK BLUE LINE AGAIN IS YOUR EXISTING DIRECT DISTRICTS.
YOU CAN SEE THIS PRETTY PROMINENT DISTRICT ONE IN THIS SCENARIO IS REACHED INTO DISTRICT TWO TO GRAB SOME OF THAT POPULATION.
SO YOU'VE GOT A CHANGE AREA HERE WITH DISTRICT ONE AND DOWN INTO DISTRICT TWO SO YOU HAVE AN ARROW SHOWING WHERE THE POPULATION WOULD GO TO.
THE SAME THING HERE IS DISTRICT ONE THAT WOULD BE TAKING SOME POPULATION FOR DISTRICT THREE IN PURPLE.
AND SO IN THIS CASE YOU ARE SEEING POPULATION FROM FOUR THROUGH THREE AND TWO TO GET TO ONE. IF YOU LOOK AT WHERE DISTRICT TWO IS GROWING, IT IS [INAUDIBLE] SOME POPULATION FROM DISTRICT FOUR HERE. SO THE YELLOW IS REACHING DOWN INTO DISTRICT FOUR AND DISTRICT FOUR, [INAUDIBLE] THAT POPULATION INTO DISTRICT TWO.
DISTRICT THREE IS REACHING DOWN INTO DISTRICT FOUR AND IT'S ALSO REACHING DOWN INTO DISTRICT FIVE.
AND THAT'S TO ME, THAT'S TO TRY TO GET AS LOW OF THIS POPULATION DEVIATION RANGE AS POSSIBLE. AND THEN BECAUSE THESE AREAS ARE FAIRLY DENSE, YOU HAVE RE-SEEN SOME OF THAT POPULATION OVER TO TWO.
SO THOSE ARE THE MAJOR CHANGE AREAS HERE AND HERE ARE THE BIGGEST ONES.
FOUR DOES NOT SEE ANY POPULATION TO FIVE, IT ONLY SEES POPULATION TO THREE AND TWO.
AND THEN TO OFTEN ITS POPULATION LOW BY SEEING SOME OF [INAUDIBLE] POPULATION.
SO WHAT YOU HAVE HERE IS THE NEW NUMBERS AND THESE NUMBERS AGAIN, SCENARIO ONE, THEY ARE REPRESENTED BY THE COLOR BLACK OVER HERE.
SO THIS COLORED BLOCK IS [INAUDIBLE].
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THE OVERALL POPULATION DEVIATION IS COMING FROM THIS THE LOWEST UNDER WHICH IS NOW IN DISTRICT FIVE WITH 30 PEOPLE UNDER THE POPULATION LINE OR -0.2 PLUS THE HIGHEST OVER WHICH IS DISTRICT FOUR, WHICH IS 50 OVER THE SPEED WITH 0.3% 3% OVER THE IDEAL POPULATION.
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SO 0.3 PLUS 0.2 GIVES YOU THAT [INAUDIBLE] SO IN THIS SCENARIO, WE WERE ATTEMPTING FOR THE LOWEST POPULATION DEVIATION OF THE TWO SCENARIOS THAT WE HAVE TODAY.IT DOES KEEP MOST SCHOOLS IN THEIR DISTRICTS.
YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS SCHOOL LOCATION DID HAVE TO MOVE BECAUSE DISTRICT FOUR REALLY NEEDS TO [INAUDIBLE] SO MUCH OF ITS POPULATION AND THEN IT MAINTAINS THE PLACE, MEANING THAT THERE IS A MUNICIPALITY BATTLEGROUND THAT GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
AND NOW THAT I'M LOOKING AT THIS, I BELIEVE IT REDUCES THE POINTS PLACE AND WE CAN LOOK AT THAT MORE.
SCENARIO TWO IS A DIFFERENT TAKE.
AND WE WANTED TO TRY TO GET A LOW POPULATION DEVIATION.
WE WANTED IT RIGHT UNDER THAT 5% WITH TRYING TO CHOOSE THE LEAST.
NOW, AGAIN, TRYING TO CHANGE THE LEAST IS IS VERY DIFFICULT BECAUSE ESSENTIALLY WE DROPPED IT BY 40% BECAUSE THE OVER 40% POPULATION DEVIATION.
SO THESE CHANGES STILL GOING TO LOOK LIKE A LOT.
AND I MIGHT ADD HERE THAT THIS CHANGE HERE WITH DISTRICT ONE REACHING DOWN LOWER INTO DISTRICT TWO LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF CHANGE, BUT THERE'S VERY FEW RESIDENTS THAT LIVE IN THIS AREA. AND SO IT'S GRABBING A LARGE GEOGRAPHIC AREA, BUT IT'S GRABBING THE SAME A SIMILAR NUMBER OF PEOPLE TO JUST GET IT UNDER AROUND 2.5%.
RIGHT. IT'S 2.5 PLUS 2.5 ABOVE AND BELOW WOULD BE 5%.
SO WE ESSENTIALLY WANT TO KEEP ANY DEVIATION [INAUDIBLE] UNDER 2.5%.
SO IN THIS SCENARIO, DISTRICT TWO SEES A LOT OF ITS POPULATION IN THIS AREA OVER HERE.
THIS AREA WOULD MOVE TO DISTRICT ONE.
IT WOULD STILL GRAB A LITTLE BIT OF POPULATION FROM DISTRICT THREE, ALTHOUGH NOT AS MUCH AS A SMALLER ONE.
DISTRICT TWO GRABS SOME OF DISTRICT TOWARDS POPULATION, NOT AS MUCH OF AN AREA AS IT DID IN YEAR ONE.
AND DISTRICT THREE HERE GRABS SOME POPULATION FROM DISTRICT FOUR AS DIRECT AS POSSIBLE.
THIS MOVE FROM 4 TO 3 AND THEN EVEN OUT BETWEEN THESE TWO, YOU KNOW, A SMALL AREA THAT SEATS POPULATION COMPARED TO TWO.
AND THEN THERE'S A TINY AREA HERE THAT SEEMS FROM 4 TO 5 IN ORDER TO JUST GET EVERYTHING UNDER 2.5%.
SO WHAT YOU END UP WITH IS YOU'VE GOT YOUR OVERALL DEVIATION OF 4.4%.
THAT'S COMING FROM THE HIGHEST OVER WHICH IS EVEN DISTRICT FOUR AND FIVE.
THEY ARE BOTH [INAUDIBLE] PEOPLE, SO 2.4% OVER THE IDEAL POPULATION.
AND THEN THE LOWEST UNDER IS DISTRICT ONE IS UNDER POPULATED BY 326 UNDER -2.2. SO 2.0 2.4% SO THOSE ARE THE TWO SCENARIOS.
I HAVE THEM SIDE BY SIDE TO REALLY SEE WHAT I REALLY WANT TO BRING YOUR EYE TO IS THE MAJOR DIFFERENCE. IS THIS AREA STAYS WITH DISTRICT TWO AND SCENARIO ONE [INAUDIBLE]. DISTRICT TWO IS NOT GOING AS FAR INTO DISTRICT FOUR AS IT IS IN SCENARIO ONE.
DISTRICT THREE PULLS FROM A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT PLACES FIVE AND FOUR IN SCENARIO, ONE WHERE IT'S ONLY DUMPING INTO DISTRICT FOUR AND SCENARIO TWO.
LITTLE EXCHANGE HERE IN SCENARIO TWO.
NOT THAT IT CHANGES IN SCENARIO ONE.
AND THEN AGAIN, THIS IS VERY SIMILAR, BUT A LITTLE BIT MORE ABRUPT IN SCENARIO ONE THAN IN SCENARIO TWO.
AND WITH THAT, I WILL COME UP TO DISCUSSION.
IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HEAR FROM DIRECTORS.
WHAT? WHICH ONE APPEALS TO YOU MORE? WHICH ONE HAS MAYBE SOME WORK TO DO?
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WE ARE HERE SO THAT IF YOU'RE SEEING SCENARIO TWO, YOU LIKE SCENARIO TWO, BUT YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE IF WE CAN CHANGE SOMETHING [INAUDIBLE] SOMETHING ELSE OUT.YOU CAN DO THAT. SO I CAN DO THAT ON THE FLY WITH YOU TODAY.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT IF WE MOVE POPULATION, THERE'S AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE MOVEMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE MADE ON THE OTHER SIDE IN A LOT OF [INAUDIBLE].
SO WANT TO HEAR THE BENEFITS AND CONSTRAINTS OF EACH OF THESE SCENARIOS FROM EACH OF THE DIRECTORS. SO I'LL OPEN IT UP TO DISCUSSION AND I'M HAPPY TO SWITCH TO OUR PRO SO THAT WE CAN ZOOM IN [INAUDIBLE].
I HAVE A QUESTION REGARDING WHERE THE CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS LIVE WITHIN THESE DISTRICTS AND HOW IS THAT GOING TO AFFECT.
SO I CAN TELL YOU JUST AND NOT THAT THE SCENARIOS WERE CREATED WITH THAT IN MIND, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE BOTH SCENARIO, SCENARIO NUMBER ONE AND SCENARIO NUMBER TWO DO NOT IMPACT ANY OF THE DIRECTORS ADDRESSES.
SO IT WOULD NOT CHANGE ANY OF THE CURRENT DIRECTORS DISTRICTS THAT THEY ARE IN.
AND THAT'S THAT'S CORRECT, RIGHT [INAUDIBLE]? YES, THAT'S CORRECT. I THINK WE LOOKED AT A COUPLE OF SCENARIOS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN RIGHT THERE, AND SO WE MODIFIED THEM VERY, VERY LITTLE TO ENSURE THAT DIRECTORS WOULD NOT BE [INAUDIBLE]. AND THAT IS A CRITERIA THAT IS ALLOWED WITH SPECIAL DISTRICTS.
IT IS NOT ALLOWED THE CITY AND COUNTY MUNICIPALITIES, BUT IT IS ALLOWED OUR SPECIAL DISTRICTS. AND I WILL SAY THAT EVEN IF IT HAD IMPACTED ADDRESS WISE, IT WOULD NOT HAVE CHANGED THE ABILITY FOR A BOARD MEMBER TO SERVE OUT THEIR TERM.
IT JUST WOULD HAVE IMPACTED THE ABILITY TO RUN FOR RE-ELECTION, FOR INSTANCE, ROB AND SCENARIO NUMBER TWO, SAY FOR INSTANCE, BECAUSE YOU REPRESENT DISTRICT TWO.
IF IN SCENARIO NUMBER TWO, YOU HAD MOVED INTO SCENARIO INTO DISTRICT ONE.
WITH THAT, THE NEXT TIME THAT DISTRICT ONE CAME UP, YOU WOULD CHOOSE TO RUN PERHAPS AGAINST MARY OR YOU WOULDN'T RUN.
OR THE NEXT TIME YOUR DISTRICT WENT OUT FOR RE-ELECTION, YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO RUN FOR DISTRICT TWO. BUT AS I MENTIONED, IN THESE CASES, NOT A SINGLE BOARD MEMBER IS IMPACTED.
SO IN SCENARIOS, NUMBER ONE AND TWO, MARY STILL LIVES IN ONE, ROB STILL LIVES IN TWO, TED STILL LIVES IN THREE, MARK STILL LIVES IN FOUR AND JACKIE STILL LIVES IN FIVE.
WELL, THAT WAS MY INITIAL CONCERN WAS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAD TO JOCKEY AROUND OR THAT WOULD. YEAH. YEAH.
THANKS, ROB. MY FIRST QUESTION AS WELL.
I PERSONALLY I LIKE SCENARIO ONE BETTER.
IT JUST LOOKS CLEANER ACROSS THE MAP.
MAYBE THAT'S JUST BECAUSE DISTRICT TWO JUST HAS A RELATIVELY FLAT LINE ACROSS THE TOP.
AND I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE SEEN AND AGAIN, THIS IS JUST MY MAYBE JUST MY THE WAY I'M LOOKING AT IT, BUT KEEPING FIVE ALMOST THE WAY IT WAS.
BUT I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT TO BALANCE THE NUMBERS SO WELL.
AND THAT'S INTERESTING THAT YOU POINT THAT OUT BECAUSE FIVE IS KIND OF LIKE IT IS IN SCENARIO TWO.
YOU SAID YOU COULD AVOID THAT.
YOU SAID YOU LIKE SCENARIO ONE.
YEAH. JUST BECAUSE I LIKE THE CHANGE BETWEEN ONE AND TWO IS JUST AND SCENARIO ONE HAS THE LOWEST DEVIATION.
OBVIOUSLY, IT HAS LESS THAN 1% DEVIATION.
THAT'S TRUE. AS YOU LOOK AT WHERE ONE WOULD CROWD INTO NUMBER DISTRICT TWO, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF POPULATION IN THOSE AREAS.
I MEAN, THERE'S SOME OBVIOUSLY IT'S PICKING UP.
BUT I MEAN, EAST OF WHERE I LIVE, THERE'S NOT A LOT GOING ON.
NO. IN SCENARIO TWO, YOU MEAN, RIGHT? RIGHT. YEAH. RIGHT UP AGAINST DNR LAND.
SORRY. I JUST. I JUST SWITCHED OVER TO OUR [INAUDIBLE] THAT WE CAN KIND OF ZOOM IN AND OUT OF THESE THINGS.
BUT I CAN ALSO TURN ON WHAT I'M TURNING ON HERE IS THE POPULATION NUMBERS IN EACH OF THE BLOCKS.
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AND SO YOU CAN SEE HERE AN ALTERNATIVE POPULATION IN THE BLOCK GEOMETRIES.SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S NOT IT'S NOT VERY POPULAR.
[INAUDIBLE] CAN YOU ZOOM IN JUST A LITTLE THERE SO WE CAN WE'RE HAVING A HARD TIME SEEING THOSE. THAT'S BETTER. THANK YOU.
IT'S PRETTY [INAUDIBLE]. CAN YOU SEE THAT BETTER? YEAH. YEAH. SO YOU'VE GOT LARGER BLOCKS AND THEY HAVE LESS PEOPLE IN THEM.
THE LARGEST BLOCK THAT THAT MOVES THIS VERY LARGE BLOCK THAT HAS BEEN CONVERTED, 72 PEOPLE. THEN THIS IS SCENARIO TWO.
ALL RIGHT. YOU CAN ALSO SEE SOME OF THE ODDITIES OF THE CENSUS BOX.
THEY HAVE THEIR OWN ISLANDS IN THEM.
THIS ONE IS A SMALL LITTLE ISLAND OF 14 PEOPLE.
SO IF YOU WERE TO TAKE THIS CENSUS BLOCK, ALSO TAKE THIS [INAUDIBLE] JUST THINKING THROUGH SOME OF THE CRITERIA.
AND WHY THEY DID THAT? WHO CREATES THOSE BLOCKS? JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY.
I BELIEVE THAT THEY DO HAVE INPUT FROM FROM STATES ON THIS.
AND I'VE ACTUALLY WE'VE ACTUALLY WORKED ON QUITE A FEW OF THESE THAT HAVE REALLY, REALLY DIFFICULT CENSUS MODELS TO WORK WITH.
AND SO I DO BELIEVE THAT THERE'S A TIME I THINK IT'S A COUPLE YEARS PRIOR TO THE CENSUS.
I SEE. I CAN'T SAY ANY OF THIS FOR CERTAIN, BUT THAT'S WHEN MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES CAN WEIGH IN ON THE CENSUS BLOCK GEOMETRIES.
AND SO NOT A LOT OF FOLKS ARE THINKING ABOUT THE CENSUS TWO YEARS PRIOR TO THE CENSUS.
BUT IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO DISCUSS WITH THEM LATER BECAUSE THEY MIGHT HAVE MORE INSIGHT INTO IF THEY HAVE SUGGESTIONS AND YOU CAN ASK FOR.
IS THERE ANY WAY THAT WE CAN TRY TO DIVIDE SOME OF THESE AREAS IN SMALLER AREAS? BUT AGAIN, IT'S NATIONWIDE.
AND SO I THINK THAT A LOT OF THESE TYPES OF SITUATIONS ARE JUST LOST.
RIGHT. ONE THING I THINK THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO LOOK AT ROADS AND NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE NATURAL BOUNDARIES AS WELL.
BUT I THINK A LOT OF THIS IS CREATED BY SOME SORT OF ALGORITHM.
AND AGAIN, I CAN'T SAY THAT WITH ANY.
WITH ANYTHING COMPLETELY POSITIVE.
IT WAS MORE OUT OF CURIOSITY THAN ANY ANYTHING ELSE I MIGHT MENTION HERE, TOO, THAT YOU DO HAVE ODDLY SHAPED SENTENCE BLOCKS LIKE THESE HERE THAT DON'T FIT NEATLY INTO THE CURRENT DISTRICT LINES.
AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE DISTRICT'S CENSUS BLOCK ACTUALLY CHANGED FROM DECENNIAL CENSUS TO [INAUDIBLE]. AND SO THE GEOMETRY IS ALSO [INAUDIBLE].
WHAT? SO WE NEED TO TAKE ALL OF THE POPULATION [INAUDIBLE] THE POPULATION SIZE, RIGHT? BECAUSE, AGAIN, WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GUARANTEE ANY OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS FROM WITHIN EACH OF THESE. SO THE NEW SCENARIOS THAT YOU HAVE PRESENTED TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT SO THOSE LINES WILL BE REDRAWN TO MAP TO MATCH THE THE NEW CENSUS BLOCKS.
THAT EXPLAINS SOME OF THE ODD PIECES THERE.
YEAH, I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THIS VERY ODD ONE THAT I REALLY THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT JUST MAKE OUR JOB MORE DIFFICULT.
I CAN SEE WHY THAT SHAPE THAT WAY.
THAT'S BECAUSE THAT'S THE LEWIS RIVER, I BELIEVE.
YEAH. AND SO THAT'S THE THAT'S JUST THE WAY THE RIVER GOES.
YEAH. SO THAT WHOLE BLOCK IS 500.
SO, TED, WAS THAT FIRST SCENARIO JUST MORE ESTHETICALLY PLEASING, LOOKING AT THE MAP TO
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HAVE A STRAIGHT LINE OR.YEAH, JUST IN MY HEAD LIKE CORRELATED BETTER.
CAN YOU SHOW SCENARIO ONE ON HERE? WELL, I LIKE.
[INAUDIBLE] SCENARIO ONE. YES.
I LIKE TWO THAT IT MADE IT VERY EQUAL FOR EVERY DISTRICT, DISTRICT POPULATION WISE, THERE ISN'T KIND OF AN UP AND DOWN.
YOU'RE CLOSER TO ZERO. REALLY.
YEAH. AND THAT WAS THE GOAL TO GET CLOSE TO ZERO.
I THINK YOU ALSO HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF MAINTAINING THAT LOWER DEVIATION BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT SCENARIO TWO, THE AREA IS VERY SPARSELY DENSE.
THE POPULATION DENSITY IS SO SMALL AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO REMAIN.
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SEE A LOT OF GROWTH.
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SEE GROWTH THERE.
SO OVER THAT TEN YEAR PERIOD, YOU HAVE A BETTER CHANCE WITH SCENARIO ONE, KEEPING YOUR STANDARD. WHEREAS IN THIS ONE, YOU MAY GET SOME GROWTH IN THAT AREA, IT'S NOT TOO FAR REMOVED. I THINK THE NEXT BIG AREA OF GROWTH, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, IS GOING TO BE DISTRICT TWO.
THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING. NO, I'M THREE, THREE.
THREE. WELL, THREE COULD GROW JUST BECAUSE OF THREE GROWTH INTO THE RIDGEFIELD.
THREE. YEAH. BUT YOU ALSO HAVE SOME GROWTH HAPPENING EAST OF THE 503.
RIGHT. AND I THINK YOU'LL HAVE SOME GROWTH ON THE NORTH END OF FIVE, ACTUALLY, AS WELL.
AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE MUCH MORE FOUR CAN GROW.
IN TEN YEARS, ONE COULD OWN THE WHOLE MAP.
IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO KEEP PACE.
THERE MIGHT BE SOME GROWTH UP THERE.
YEAH. YEAH. URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARIES.
EXACTLY. THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO CHANGE.
YEAH. WITHIN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, I DON'T KNOW.
BUT ONE IS, ONE IS GOING TO STRUGGLE TO KEEP, KEEP UP.
YEAH. UM, CAN YOU SHOW THE VIEW AGAIN WITH THE CENSUS BOX? [INAUDIBLE]. DID YOU HEAR THAT? [INAUDIBLE]. YEAH.
SORRY. I'M HAVING A HARD TIME HERE.
WE WERE WONDERING IF YOU COULD SHOW SCENARIO ONE WITH THE CENSUS BLOCKS.
THANK YOU. AND PERHAPS THE SAME THING WITH THE POPULATION.
AND IF YOU WANT ME TO ZOOM INTO A CERTAIN AREA, JUST JUST LET ME KNOW.
CAN YOU POSSIBLY ZOOM IN TO THE KIND OF THE CONJUNCTION OF ALL FIVE OF THE DISTRICTS THERE? YEAH.
YEAH, YOU PROBABLY ZOOM OUT ONE MORE CLICK, BUT.
SO THAT'S WHY THOSE NEED TO STAY TOGETHER.
YEAH. YEAH, I GUESS THAT'S NOT BAD.
I MEAN. SO MOST OF THE BLOCKS THAT I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED ARE [INAUDIBLE] STARTING 456 PEOPLE. COULD YOU ZOOM IN ON THE AREA THAT DISTRICT THREE IS GIVING TO TWO UP THERE IN THE CORNER THERE.
WELL IN THAT AREA IS FOUND BY NORTHWEST 10TH AVENUE AND I CAN TURN ON THOSE.
IT MAKES SENSE. THAT MAKES SENSE GIVEN THE OTHER LOCATIONS THERE.
CAN YOU SCROLL UP A LITTLE BIT? I CAN SEE WHERE ONE IN RIGHT THERE.
YEAH. IT KIND OF MAKES SENSE TO.
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ARE THOSE TWO SEPARATE CENSUS BLOCKS, RIGHT WHERE TWO AND ONE COME TOGETHER.THOSE TWO CORNERS? THESE HERE? YEAH, THERE'S TWO OF THEM.
YEAH, THERE'S THIS ONE IS 591.
THAT'S THAT LARGE BLOCK THAT GOES UP.
AND WHAT ARE THE TWO THERE THAT ARE WEDGED IN BETWEEN IT? 38 PEOPLE HERE AND 40 PEOPLE HERE.
A TOTAL OF 669 PEOPLE IN [INAUDIBLE] BLOCKS.
THAT'S MY OCD KICKING IN, BEING LIKE THIS SQUARED.
CENSUS BLOCKS. I DON'T THINK YOU'RE GOING TO ACCOMPLISH THAT.
NOT UNLESS YOU MAKE PEOPLE MOVE.
YEAH. ANY STRONG FEELINGS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER? BOTH ONE OVER THE OTHER.
WHAT'S THE THOUGHTS OF THE BOARD? WELL, I'M WITH JACK. I LIKE THAT WE'RE CLOSER TO ZERO.
BECAUSE I THINK THAT WE'RE THE MOST LIKELY TO, OVER TIME, BE ABLE TO.
RIGHT. IT GIVES US A BETTER JUMP ON THE NEXT TEN YEARS, I THINK.
RIGHT. SO IT SOUNDS [INAUDIBLE] AS THOUGH WE'RE LEANING TOWARDS SCENARIO NUMBER ONE.
SO AND I DON'T KNOW, IN SCENARIO NUMBER ONE, AS WE LOOK AT SCENARIO NUMBER ONE, THIS IS IT. [INAUDIBLE] SAID THAT THERE WAS THE POSSIBILITY OF MAKING SOME CHANGES, BUT WE'RE FINE WITH THE WAY THIS LOOKS.
YEAH, I THINK YOU'RE LIMITED BASED ON THE CENSUS BLOCKS.
RIGHT, RIGHT. WE COULD WE COULD PROBABLY SIT HERE AND PLAY WITH IT ALL DAY AND THEN.
I KNOW AND. CIRCLE BACK TO EXACTLY WHERE WE'RE AT.
RIGHT, RIGHT. THAT'S MY FEELING, TOO.
IT SEEMS LIKE THEY'VE PROBABLY ALREADY DONE THAT.
YEAH. YES, I'M SURE THEY HAVE.
THAT'S WHY WE MADE THEM, RIGHT? EXACTLY. MAYBE THE EXPERTS.
YEAH. YEAH. IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT'S WHERE WE'RE SETTLING.
ON SCENARIO ONE? YES. YEAH. OKAY.
OKAY. AND THEN SO THEN THE NEXT QUESTION IS, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE BOTH OF THESE SCENARIOS AS DRAFT MAPS OR TO SOLICIT FEEDBACK FROM THE PUBLIC? OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO JUST HAVE ONE DRAFT [INAUDIBLE]? THERE'S KIND OF BENEFITS AND CONSTRAINTS TO BOTH.
YEAH. MY TAKE IS RIGHT NOW THAT WE'RE LEANING TOWARDS JUST PUTTING OUT THE ONE MAP SCENARIO ONE AND THAT IT BALANCES WITHIN 0.5 OF A PERCENT.
IT IS. IT'S REALLY GOOD POPULATION DEVIATION AND IT DOES FOR IF YOU'RE THINKING TOWARDS FUTURE GROWTH AND THEN WE CAN TAKE THEM INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN WE'RE DOING THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS.
BUT I ALWAYS TEND TO RECOMMEND THE LOWER THAT YOU GET, THE BETTER CHANCE YOU'LL HAVE TO DO LESS CHANGE THE NEXT IN TEN MORE YEARS.
IF YOU WERE TO HEDGE SOME OF YOUR BETS ON ON POPULATION GROWTH, SAY, ON SCENARIO TWO, THERE'S A POTENTIAL THAT BECAUSE IT'S A TEN YEAR HORIZON THAT YOU COULD MISS THE MARK AND AND GROW THINGS FURTHER OVER.
SO THERE'S A BENEFIT TO BEING THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.
IT ALSO MEANS THAT YOU'RE CURRENTLY SERVING PEOPLE THAT NUMBERS OF [INAUDIBLE] PEOPLE.
WHEN I LOOK AT SCENARIO NUMBER TWO, I SEE THAT FOUR AND FIVE ARE BOTH HIGHER THAN THE OTHERS. AND I THINK THAT'S IN THE FUTURE.
THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEE OUR GROWTH.
AND SO I THINK YOUR POINT IS WELL MADE THERE, THAT THAT WOULD INCREASE THE DEVIATION GREATER THAN THE OTHER SCENARIOS AND OUR NUMBER ONE.
AND IT MIGHT NOT HIT THE MARK BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF GROWTH, BUT IT CAN BE 1 TO 5 CENSUS BLOCKS LEFT OF OF CHANGE NEXT TIME IF GROWTH CONTINUES.
RIGHT. BUT AGAIN, YOU'RE ALSO SEEING SOME OF THIS AREA THAT HAS GROWN OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS [INAUDIBLE] MM HMM.
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YEAH. YEAH.I THINK WE'RE GOOD WITH WITH SCENARIO ONE, PRESENTING THAT TO THE PUBLIC AND SEEING WHAT THE FEEDBACK IS.
THEN I WILL GET A DRAFT PACKAGE TOGETHER, AS WELL AS A DRAFT MAP PRESENTATION THAT I'LL BE ABLE TO PRESENT TO YOU AT THE DRAFT MAP PUBLIC HEARING ON APRIL 25TH.
AND WORDS HAVE DONE THIS SEVERAL DIFFERENT WAYS, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE IT AS AN AGENDA ITEM WITH PUBLIC COMMENT DIRECTLY AFTER.
I THINK THAT CAN WORK REALLY WELL FOR THE PUBLIC HAS CONTEXT THAT IT REALLY IS [INAUDIBLE]. YEAH.
MY GUESS IS THAT WE WILL HAVE THAT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR IN OUR MEETING AND CALL IT A SPECIAL MEETING AND THEN GO BACK AND PRESENT THIS INFORMATION AND HAVE THE HEARING AND GO FROM THERE. THAT SOUNDS WONDERFUL.
WHAT IS IT THAT WE HAVE TO DO NEXT? SO WE HAVE TO.
SO WE'VE GOT THE SPRINGBOARD SCENARIO REVIEW APRIL 11TH, AND THEN WE NEED TO PUBLISH THESE DRAFT MAPS ON APRIL 16TH, AND WE'RE PUBLISHING THOSE AND SHARING THOSE WITH OUR COMMUNITY. YES.
SO THAT WOULD BE WE WOULD JUST BE PUBLISHING ONE DRAFT MAP.
OKAY. JUST SCENARIO ONE, IF THAT'S THE WAY THAT YOU ALL WANT TO GO, YOU'D BE PUBLISHING THAT EITHER IN PUBLIC NOTICE OR IF YOU HAVE A LEAD.
YOU THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT EXAMPLES FOR LANDING PAGES AND ONE STOP SHOP FOR ALL THINGS WITH REDISTRICTING ALSO LETTING FOLKS KNOW THAT THIS IS FOR THIS DIRECTOR DISTRICT REDISTRICTING AND MODEL ATTENDANCE AREA REDISTRICTING.
SO THAT WILL HAPPEN ON APRIL 16TH.
AS LONG AS WE HAVE THAT THAT BOARD MEETING WITHIN TEN DAYS OF PUBLISHING THE DRAFT.
NOT THAT THAT'S THE ONLY TIMING PIECE IN OUR CW THAT WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF.
[INAUDIBLE] THE DRAFT MAP FOR PUBLIC TESTING.
OKAY. OUR COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR IS HERE IN THIS MEETING AND SHE'S READY TO GO WITH THAT. GREAT.
PRESENTATION WAS WONDERFUL, VERY CLEAR, CONCISE, GOT WHAT WE NEEDED.
SO THANK YOU AND THANK FLO ANALYTICS.
AND THANK YOU AGAIN FOR HAVING ME.
BYE. BYE-BYE. IS THAT ANYTHING ELSE? FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER? BEFORE WE ADJOURN THE MEETING.
THEN WE WILL ADJOURN THIS MEETING, THIS WORK SESSION AT 5:38.
THANK YOU.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.