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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />STAFF REPORT <br />DATE: July 18, 2011 <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />BY: <br />Lianne Marshall, Interim City Manager <br />APPROVED AND <br />FORWARDED <br />TO CITY COUNCIL <br />Jacquelyn Diaz, Interim Assistant City(,' <br />Manager <br />Luke Sims, Community Development Director <br />Marian Handa, City C1erkjV <br />Tom Liao, Planning and Housing Manager -rt.- <br />SUBJECT PROJECT/PROJECT DESCRIPTION: <br />MATTER OF ADOPTION OF TIMELINE, CRITERIA AND OUTREACH PLAN FOR CITY <br />COUNCIL REDISTRICTING <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION <br />The City Council Rules and Communications Committee has reviewed a proposed timeline, <br />criteria and outreach plan for the development and approval of new Council district boundaries. <br />It is recommended that the City Council review, discuss and adopt the criteria, timeline and <br />public outreach plan to be used in the redistricting process. <br />N ��t��Sl�TIIiJ�L17 <br />Analysis <br />Section 230 of the San Leandro City Charter requires district boundaries to be drawn whenever <br />the results of the federal census show an increase of five percent (5 %) or more since the last <br />redistricting. The City Council last approved new Council district boundaries in 2002, following <br />the 2000 federal census. The 2010 federal census data, released in March 2011, reveals <br />population growth of 6.92% citywide, triggering the Charter requirement for the Council's <br />review of its district boundaries. <br />Lianne Marshall <br />Interim City Manager <br />The following is a comparison of the 2000 and 2010 census population figures by Council <br />district. According to the 2010 census, the citywide population is 84,950; making the target, or <br />average, district population 14,158 for each of the six Council districts. The following chart <br />shows the Council district with the lowest population at 3.68% below the target, and the district <br />