2022-004 - Adopting a Redistricting Plan

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AN OIDE R 011:F'1711E C11T COUNCIL 0111V11111E CITY OF PARI'S ESTA1 IS11ING CRI"T'ERIA FOR REDISTRICTING OF POLITICAL BOUNDARIES The city council for the City. of lllaris,Texas, meeting in a. duly schedulled and posited meeting, does hereby adopt the following criteria f6r use in the redistricting of all City political boundairies. Any plan ff..-.)r the redistricting of the single niernber districts fi-om Which representative members M"the executive body of the City of Paris are elected si.,iould, to t1w maximum extent possible, conform to the following criteria. 1. 1.7he Plan should ensure that all applicable provisions of the U.S. and Texas Constitutions, the voting Rights Act,, and. the Tv.. Elee:tion Code are honored. 2. The plan should be drawn. in such a manner that the maxim.um deviation from a in ideal size, as determined by dividing the tol2d. population, of the city by tfte number of single mernber districts that compose the it Council of the Cit7f of Paris be not more than plus or rninus five (5%) percent for aqy individual single member district, or a total top to bottom deviation (percentage of deviation below and above the ideal size) between the am, t populated district and the least populated district l y not more than a rnaximum deviation. of riiio -imore ffian ten (1096) percent,, I The plan should address milriority representation, and if at all possible,, in conformity wiffi, constitutional standards, avoid retrir..')gressilon in the percentag ge of population and voting age demographics consistent with existing minority, representation.. 4. The plan should avoid fragmentation. and. preserve minairity communities of irliterest to the maximum extent possible. These communities of interest should be recognized and retairied intact where possible. Only when the overall minority population of'the cityis sufficiently large to require rnore than one rminority district should ininority populations be divided, and onty then to the least degree 1,-)ossible. 5. The plan sl-tould nut,, however, attempt to uni�-,easona.Wy join geographically remote min.or-ity popialatio iris into a singlepreicim',t unless there are stroing and genuine connections between these cornmt.iffldles ,as reflected by common. schools, churches, or cultural ties. Fw., example, minority populations in two separate rieighborhoods, located miles apart, may not have sufficient links or common. political cohesion to justify, joining these two rninority population centers into a single electoral group. Particularly wheiiri. dealfiag with distinct minority groups, such as Black and. Hi panic populations, a general assuniption goat separate uffiriority populatlons will -vote in a. "block" may be unsupportable in fact.