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The plan should address fundamental and necessary governmental functions, and to the extent <br />possible, insure that these functions are enhanced rather than impaired. Election administration should <br />not be unduly complex as a result of election boundaries. <br />10. The plan should insure that election voting precincts under such plan do not contain territory from <br />more than one of the following to provide to the greatest extent possible harmonious administration <br />of various election jurisdictions: <br />a. commissioners precinct; <br />b. justice precinct; <br />c. congressional district; <br />d. state representative district; <br />e. state senatorial district; <br />f. city ward; if the city has a population of 10,000 or more (this is a strict legal requirement, <br />but city election wards should be honored in virtually all circumstances, with city and <br />rural county voters being kept in separate voting precincts to the extent possible); <br />g. State Board of Education districts; <br />h. and where they exist other special election districts, such as water, hospital, ar navigation <br />districts. <br />11. The plan should attempt to locate polling places in convenient, well-known locations that are <br />accessible to disabled voters to the maximum extent possible. Public buildings should be utilized to <br />the maximum extent possible as polling places. Where necessary, buildings routinely open to the <br />public, such as churches, retail businesses, or private buildings dedicated to public activities, should be <br />used as polling places. <br />The faregoing criteria are deemed to be illustrative, but not exclusive, examples of fundamentally <br />important issues, which should be considered in any redistricting, plan. Therefore, the City Council expresses <br />its intention to measure any plan submitted for consideration by this set of criteria, and to base any eventual <br />exercise of discretion upon the foregoing criteria. <br />The criteria approved this date were considered in open session, following posting not less than 72 <br />hours before any action taken on the same. Upon motion by Council member Edwin Pickle, and second by <br />Council member Richard Grossnickle, the Council adopted the criteria set forth herein by a vote of 5 tol. <br />Signed this 22nd day of August, 2011. <br />A.J. Hashmi, M.D., Mayor <br />ATTEST: <br />Janice Ellis, City Clerk <br />APPROVED AS TO FORM: <br />W. Kent McIlyar, City Attorney <br />