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City Council
Monday, February 21,2022 9:00 AM Council Chambers
SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING
Developing Redistricting Plan
Public Notice: Persons with disabilities who plan to attend this meeting and who may
need auxiliary aids or services are requested to contact the City Secretary's office (at
361-826-3105) at least 48 hours in advance so that appropriate arrangements can be
made.
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This meeting may be held via videoconference call pursuant to Texas Government Code
§ 551.127. If this meeting is held via videoconference call or other remote method of
meeting, then a member of this governmental body presiding over this meeting will be
physically present at the location of this meeting unless this meeting is held pursuant to
Texas Government Code § 551.125 due to an emergency or other public necessity
pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.045.
A. Mayor Paulette M. Guajardo to call the meeting to order.
B. City Secretary Rebecca L. Huerta to call the roll of the required Charter Officers.
C. PUBLIC COMMENT - To speak during this public comment period, you must
sign up before the meeting begins. Each speaker is limited to a total of no more
than 3 minutes per speaker. You will not be allowed to speak again on an item
when the Council is considering the item. Time limits may be restricted further by
the Mayor at any meeting. If you have a petition or other information pertaining to
your subject, please present it to the City Secretary. Written comments may be
submitted at cctexas.com/departments/city-secretary. Electronic media that you
would like to use may only be introduced into the City system IF approved by the
City's Information Technology (IT) Department at least 24 hours prior to the
Meeting. Please contact IT at 826-3211 to coordinate. This is a public hearing for
all items on this agenda.
D. BRIEFINGS:
1. 22-0319 Presentation and discussion of 2022 Redistricting Illustrative Plan for City
Council Districts; and development of a baseline City Council Districts
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Map for community engagement purposes.
Sponsors: City Secretary's Office
E. EXECUTIVE SESSION:
2. 22-0334 Executive Session pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.071
and Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 1.05 to consult
with attorneys concerning legal issues related to City Council's redistricting
obligations and potential litigation related thereto.
F. ADJOURNMENT
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1852 Special City Council Meeting of February 21, 2022
DATE: February 16, 2022
TO: Mayor and Council
FROM: Rebecca Huerta, City Secretary
RebeccaH@cctexas.com
(361) 826-3105
Miles Risley, City Attorney
M ilesR(a)-cctexas.com
(361) 826-3360
Presentation and discussion of 2022 Redistricting Illustrative Plan for City Council Districts; and
development of a baseline City Council Districts Map for community engagement purposes.
OUTSIDE PRESENTER
Name Title/Position Organization
1. Cobby Caputo General Counsel Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP
ISSUE:
General Counsel Cobby Caputo with Bickerstaff will present the first draft of the
illustrative map of proposed City Council districts for Council input and revisions. A baseline City
Council districts map will be developed for community engagement purposes.
BACKGROUND:
Redistricting is the process of redrawing the boundaries of the City's single-member
districts for electing Council members. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1964 that election
districts (such as city council districts) must have "substantially equal" total population,
sometimes referred to as the "one person, one vote standard." Every ten years after the U.S.
Census results are released, each jurisdiction that has election districts must assess whether
the election districts have "substantially equal population" using the new Census data. The City
Charter at Article II, Section 1(a) also requires redistricting to balance the population in each
district, "The city council shall by ordinance equalize the single member districts as required by
law."
On February 8, 2022, the City Council adopted a resolution setting out the criteria to be
used in redrawing the City Council districts to comply with the "one person, one vote" mandate.
These criteria include:
• Easily identifiable geographic boundaries should be followed.
• Communities of interest should be maintained in a single district, and attempts should
be made to avoid splitting neighborhoods.
• Councilmember districts should be composed of whole voting precincts. Where this
is not possible or practicable, districts should be drawn considering county election
precincts. Avoid splitting census blocks unless necessary.
• Although it is recognized that existing districts will have to be altered to reflect new
population distribution in the City, any districting plan should be based on existing
districts.
• Districts must be configured so that they are relatively equal in total population
according to the 2020 federal census. In no event should the total population deviation
between the largest and the smallest district exceed ten percent as compared to the
ideal district size.
• The districts should be compact and composed of contiguous territory. Compactness
may contain a functional, as well as a geographical, dimension.
• Consideration may be given to the preservation of incumbent-constituency relations
by recognition of the residence of incumbents and their history in representing certain
areas.
• The plan should be narrowly tailored to avoid racial gerrymandering in violation of
Shaw v. Reno.
• The plan should not fragment a geographically compact minority community or pack
minority voters in the presence of polarized voting or otherwise discriminate against
protected groups so as to create liability under the Voting Rights Act.
To obtain citizen input on the draft illustrative map, the City will be hosting a series of
community input sessions as follows:
ALL TIMES: 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
• Tuesday, February 22: General Session — HYBRID (In-Person & Virtual); City
Council Chambers, 1201 Leopard Street
• Wednesday, February 23: District 2 — IN-PERSON; Lindale Senior Center, 3135
Swantner
• Thursday, February 24: District 1 — IN-PERSON; Owen R. Hopkins Public Library,
3202 McKinzie Road
• Monday, February 28: District 5— IN-PERSON; Veterans Memorial School, Teaching
Theater, 3750 Cimarron Blvd.
• Wednesday, March 2: District 4— IN-PERSON; Ethel Eyerly Senior Center, 654
Graham Road
• Thursday, March 3: District 3— IN-PERSON; Water Utilities Bldg., Choke Canyon
Room, 2726 Holly Rd.
• Tuesday, March 8: General Session — HYBRID (In-Person &Virtual); City Council
Chambers, 1201 Leopard St.
Additionally, citizens can make public comment at a regular or special City Council
meeting or submit comments in writing to 2022redistrictingo-cctexas.com. For more
information, please refer to the City's website at www.cctexas.com/redistricting.