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Special City Council Meetrng August 14, 2001 Page 2 Redistricting Advisory Committee for the duration of the 2001 redistricting efforts by the City of Paris, was presented by City Attorney Schenk. A motion was made by Mayor Pro Tem Manning, seconded by Councilman Carter, to table action on the resolution. The motion carried 7 ayes, 0 nays. A motion was made by Councilman McCarthy to approve the appointment of the current members. The motion was seconded by Councilman Carter, and carried 7 ayes, 0 nays. Mayor Pfiester announced that the next item on the agenda was a work session with the consultant regarding redistricting plans. Bob Bass with the firm of Allison and Bass Associates, discussed the work done in the previous meeting working from the current plan and that the demographics that we are dealing with are challenging. He said it would be difficult to meet the legal requirements that are imposed under constitutional and voting rights law. Mr. Bass said he would like to look at that plan created in the last meeting tonight as there was a change made in it that threw it out of the constitutional balance. Mr. Bass said he has gone in and reconstructed the map to bring it back into line. Mr. Bass said it was his understanding that, due to term limits in the City Charter, that some of the existing members are not going to be eligible to run for office again. He said for those present incumbents who will not be returning due to Charter provision, it is not really necessary to keep them in their districts, but if a council member is moved out of their district by change of boundary, they will continue to serve out their term. Mr. Bass advised that the current map that he was showing the Committee is the plan that they left off with at the last meeting and the ideal population of a district is roughly 3,700 people. This map is currently close to that amount with the