To: Election Commission
From: Lisa Anderson, Town Clerk
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Next Steps
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Executive Summary
Staff is requesting direction regarding any next steps desired. Note: staff will be requesting an Election Commission meeting in February to review adjusting District boundaries for the required Redistricting.
Section 4-5. - Districts.
(a) The Town is hereby divided into six districts, the boundaries of which shall be established and changed by the Election Commission as provided in this Charter. Districts shall be reviewed by the Election Commission in 2015, 2021 and every six years thereafter to determine if an adjustment in district boundaries is required in order to meet the requirements of subsection (b).
(b) In each year a review of district boundaries is required under subsection (a), the Election Commission shall ascertain, based on the available election records, the number of registered electors in each district on January 15 of that year, or the next business day following January 15th if January 15 falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday. If the number of registered electors in the district with the lowest number of registered electors is less than eighty-five percent of the number of registered electors in the district with the highest number of registered electors, the district boundaries shall be adjusted in accordance with subsection (c). If the least populated district has a number of registered electors equal to or greater than eighty-five percent of the registered electors of the most heavily populated district, no adjustment in district boundaries shall be made.
(c) Not later than April 1 of the year in which an adjustment in district boundaries is required under subsection (b), the Election Commission shall change the boundaries of districts so that the number of registered electors calculated in accordance with subsection (b) is not less than eighty-five percent of the number of registered electors in the district with the highest number of registered electors. Districts shall be contiguous and compact whenever possible.
(d) No change in district boundaries shall create a vacancy during the term of any Councilmember in office at the time of the change.