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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET <br />Submittal Date: <br />Originating Department: <br />Presented By: <br />Agenda Item No.: <br />9-7-2011 <br />Council Date: <br />Finance <br />Gene Anderson <br />8. <br />9-12-11 <br />RECOMMENDED MOTION: <br />Motion to approve a ordinance adopting a redistricting plan for the City of Paris Council districts. <br />POLICY ISSUE(S): <br />Voter representation. <br />Following every decennial census, all political jurisdictions are required substantiate their existing <br />electoral district boundaries or make adjustments to accommodate demographic changes since the last <br />census. Census data for use in redistricting was released in March and the redistricting process has to be <br />completed by 2012. Following a public hearing, the City Council will take up for consideration and <br />possible action one or more alternative plans for the redistricting of City Council districts. The City <br />Council reserves the right to take any and all appropriate action regarding the redistricting of the City of <br />Paris's political boundaries, including the acceptance of new boundaries for the City Council districts, <br />modification of any boundaries, and/or tabling the pending proposals for later consideration and/or <br />action. <br />The Public is invited to attend and participate in this meeting. Those wishing to address the City <br />Council should sign a speakers request form provided for this purpose. Each speaker will be asked to <br />come before the Council, to identify themselves, their address, and the City Council district they reside <br />within. Comments should be reasonably concise and to the point. Questions will be answered but the <br />Council will not permit argument or excessive discussion of any particular topia The hearing will be <br />conducted under rules of judicial decorum. A tape recording of the hearing will be made of this <br />hearing. Your comments will be transcribed and included with the submission of the proposed changes <br />to existing City Council districts to the United States Department of Justice. <br />BOARD/COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: <br />None <br />EXHIBITS: <br />Resolution <br />ACTION: <br />BUDGET INFO: <br />❑ Financial Report ❑ Minute Order <br />Expense <br />$NA <br />❑ Department Report ❑ Resolution <br />Budgeted Amt. <br />$NA <br />❑ Presentation ~ Ordinance <br />yTD Actual <br />$NA <br />❑ Public Hearing ❑ Other <br />Acct. Name <br />NA <br />Acct. Number <br />NA <br />FISCAL NOTES: <br />None <br />REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY: <br />~ Administration Z City Clerk ❑ Communiry Development ❑ EMS/IT ❑ Finance ❑ Fire <br />❑ Municipal Court Z Legal ❑ Library ❑ Police ❑ Eng./Public Works ❑ Utilities <br />City of Paris Revised 2/04/08 <br />- 2O <br />