As the task force moves forward, it will have to balance out innumerable asks from the public to keep together what people feel to be communities of interest — populations that share societal, economic or political beliefs.
A map of the seventh draft of San Francisco’s supervisorial districts. The Redistricting Task Force, in a 5-4 vote, elected not to accept a previously published final draft, which has caused it to miss a City Charter mandated deadline.
The next possible meeting to set supervisorial boundaries is April 21, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Angela Cavillo had told members earlier. Subsequent meetings will be scheduled for later in the month. The city’s mandate points to April 15 as the final date that any redistricting committee can choose and refine a map. If that is not met, Flores explained, all the members could be sued. The state’s Department of Elections requires that all maps to be used for the November election be finalized May 2.does not specifically speak to what happens when a city violates its own charter but focuses on the formation and revisions of charter documents.
In Oakland, a redistricting commission missed the deadline identified in the city’s charter in December,. Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker filed a petition in Alameda County Superior Court in early January that promised she would ask the court to create a new map for the city if the commission could not secure its own within a month.
“I don’t want this to end yet,” Townsend said just before his peer Lily Ho issued a substitute motion towork with the final draft map at the last pre-scheduled meeting and present it to the Board for review by 11:59 p.m. tonight.
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