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City °JArts &Innovation City Council Memorandum IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL DATE: AUGUST 16, 2022 FROM: CITY CLERK WARDS: ALL SUBJECT: RESHAPE RIVERSIDE REDISTRICTING PROCESS AND CRITERIA PRESENTATION ISSUE: Receive a presentation from staff and the City's consulting demographer, Redistricting Partners, regarding the process and criteria for establishing new ward boundaries. RECOMMENDATIONS: That the City Council: 1. Receive and file a presentation on the Reshape Riverside Redistricting process and criteria for establishing new ward boundaries; and 2. Provide further direction as the City Council deems appropriate for implementing the City's Reshape Riverside Redistricting Plan. BACKGROUND: The City Council met and conferred on the procedural requirements for the Redistricting process during City Council meetings on October 12, 2021, November 16, 2021, and January 11, 2022. At which time, City Council discussed the City's proposed plan for community engagement, a tentative timeline for establishing the ward boundaries, a comprehensive report on the California Voting Rights Act, and the three redistricting commission methods. On January 11, 2022, having considered the various redistricting approaches, the City Council unanimously appointed the Inclusiveness, Community Engagement, and Governmental Processes Committee (ICGC) to oversee and advise staff on the Redistricting process and approved the tentative timeline for the City's Reshape Riverside Redistricting plan. Riverside City Charter Section 402 requires City Council to divide the city boundaries into seven wards, review the boundaries of those wards every ten years, and adjust those boundaries by ordinance to provide for a substantially equal number of residents in each ward. The resulting redistricting ordinance becomes effective thirty days after it is adopted, and the existing ward boundaries are to be used until that redistricting ordinance establishes new ward boundaries.