11:01am | The county will outline its upcoming redistricting process tomorrow at an organizational meeting of the newly appointed Boundary Review Committee on Supervisorial Redistricting in Los Angeles County.
Scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, 500 W. Temple St., Room 739, in Los Angeles, the March 2 meeting is open to the public and will run for approximately two hours, according to information provided by the county’s Public Affairs division.
County staff from the Executive Office of the Board of Supervisors, Board Offices, Chief Executive Office, County Counsel and other involved county departments will discuss the proposed timeline and meeting schedule, legal issues, outreach efforts and public access plan, as well as the process for submitting redistricting plans and analysis.
The election of a committee chair and vice-chair is also on the agenda.
The Board of Supervisors approved on Nov. 16 the establishment of a Boundary Review Committee in addition to a Public Access Plan concept, a necessary step in the cumbersome decennial redistricting of supervisorial district boundaries as mandated by the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution and the California Elections Code.
These laws require the redrawing of political district boundaries after each census.
According to a November 2010 staff report, the Boundary Review Committee’s main function is to study the county’s existing supervisorial district boundary ordinance and determine, based on Census 2010 population data and any applicable legal requirements, if and how the supervisorial district boundaries should be redrawn to account for demographic and population changes.