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Special City Council Meeting <br />July 30, 2001 <br />Page 3 <br /> <br />viable than is District One. He illustrated this fact by using the computer <br />database and district mapping capabilities to take population from District Two <br />and add it to District One, showing a spreadsheet of the effect to the Council <br />and Committee members present. <br /> <br />Mr. Bass explained that he would like to obtain feedback from the <br />Council/Citizens Redistricting Advisory Committee to tell him generally where <br />they think the community of interests are so that he can work up various <br />alternates to send back to them to look at for their next meeting. <br /> <br />Mr. Bass explained how he would maneuver the district lines, adding and <br />moving the census blocks to try and create balanced population within the <br />districts. Mr. Bass started with a county map showing their proposed boundary <br />lines and advised that the county has to honor the city's districts, so both the <br />county and city would benefit by having boundary lines similar. Mr. Bass said <br />the county is dividing the whole county population by four where the city is <br />dividing only the City of Paris by seven, so this is not going to make the lines <br />match up exactly, but that is the county's problem. They will have to create <br />small voting boxes to handle the overlap of the city districts. Brady Fisher <br />pointed out that while that may be true, County precinct four is far more <br />heavily populated than the rural area of the other three, and it may be possible <br />to get one city district in precinct four and two in each of the other. Mr. Bass <br />said that one of the places that he started looking was what the city's districts <br />might look like using the county's precincts as a starting point. <br /> <br />Mr. Bass responded to a question by Councilman McCarthy regarding the <br />voting age. Mr. Bass advised that work is initially done by total population and <br />includes men, women and children. Once a district is created, particularly <br />where it is a marginal district, the voting age of the population is looked at to <br />determine if it is a viable district, that is does it retain its retrogression in the <br />numbers it magnifies by a lower registration rate and a lower turnout rate. Mr. <br />Bass said that the legal standards are initially total population. <br /> <br /> <br />