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Special City Council Meetrng August 14, 2001 Page 3 exception of District One. He said that District One is under populated at this point, District Three is a little over populated, but it is within the limits. Mr. Bass said that District One is one of the minority districts and it has basically the same boundaries as it has under the existing plan. Population has been added in several areas trying to bring more minority content into that district, but it is still slightly under populated. By under populating that district, there is an advantage to the minority constituents because the minority content that it has is enhanced by being under populated. Mr. Bass advised that District Two also has similar boundaries as it presently has, and District Two is also a target district in that he would like to see this district stay very near where they presently are even though they are not constitutional in terms of numerical balance. He said they still try to meet the benchmark of those boundaries established, and that is basically a 58% minority black content in District One, and 47% in District Two. Mr. Bass said there is 43.47% Anglo population in District Two and about 35.8% Anglo population in District One, so the combined minority in District One is about 65% and approximately 57% in District Two. He said he would like to see those percentages stay as is. Mr. Bass said under the plan he has been working on with the help of the Committee they had searched for additional minority population all around the edges and they came out with a percentage of about 40.2% in District One and about 45.96% in District Two, which means the black population has fallen in both districts. Mr. Bass advised that according to the present map the black population in District One is 52.09% and in District Two it is 44.59%. Mr. Bass said the city's deviation is under 8.9%. Mr. Bass pointed out both District One and Two are under populated due to a decline of black population in District One of approximately 6 points and about 2 ~/z points in District Two. He said those numbers come from the fact that we are having to add population to both districts due to the fact that they are under populated. Mr. Bass told the Committee that he can not see a whole lot of improvement on them unless he takes a little bit of Anglo population out of District Two to bring it up.