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A
Shankman,
he
has
been
sending
demand
letters
of
the
sort
that
we
received
a
number
of
cities,
not
the
only
law
firm
in
California.
There
are
about
four
law
firms
to
in
Northern
California
to
in
Southern
California.
That
have
been
doing
quite
a
bit
of
this.
This
is
not
unusual
in
civil
rights
actions
that
you
see
independent
law
firms
that
are
very
aggressive
in
trying
to
advance
civil
rights
issues
is,
we
believe,
a
civil
rights
issue
and
the
legislature
balay
believed
it
was
at
large.
A
So
the
legislature,
and
in
particularly
the
Latino
caucus
in
the
legislature,
made
changing
municipal
elections
from
being
primarily
at-large
to
primarily
a
district
based,
a
priority
for
them,
and
laws
were
changed
so
as
to
make
it
easy
for
individuals
to
prove
racially
polarized
voting
and
very
difficult
for
cities
that
wanted
to
be
resistant.
We
have
had
a
few
cities
that
have
resisted
most
famously
the
city
of
palmdale,
and
in
that
it
went
to
the
courts
the
courts
found
in
favor
of
the
plaintiffs.
A
A
Palm
Springs
has
in
a
reputation
that
we
believe
we
have
earned
as
being
a
diverse
and
inclusive
community
and
that's
an
important
value
to
our
community.
Yet,
in
the
80
years
that
we
have
been
a
city,
we
have
elected
one
african-american
and
one
Latino
to
our
City
Council.
One
third
of
our
city
are
people
of
color.
Approximately
25%
of
our
population
is
Latino,
approximately
five
percent
African
American
about
four
five
percent
Asian
American
and
about
one
percent
Native
American.
A
To
me
this
is
the
first
time
anyone
has
ever
asked
me
what
I
thought
the
implication
was
even
beyond
that
that
it
was
the
first
time
she
felt
that
anyone
cared
what
she
thought.
So
we
really
are
trying
to
reach
out
to
our
entire
community.
I
want
to
thank
the
people
who
have
been
on
our
working
group
that
are
here
with
us
this
evening.
A
Kathy
were
Mac
and
Steven
Moses
and
Ed
doobie,
who
have
been
absolutely
stellar
in
this
whole
process,
so
I'm
gonna,
let
Anthony
yes,
talk
you
through
just
a
little
bit
of
the
process
things
then
we
are
gonna,
ask
for
your
questions
and
we
would
like
to
begin
with
whatever
questions
you
have.
We
will
spend
as
much
time
as
we
need
to
answer
all
of
your
questions.
Once
we
finished
with
the
questions
we
will
move
on
to.
What
are
your
comments?
What
do
you
like?
A
B
Hi
so
I'm
Anthony,
Anthony,
Mejia
city
clerk
for
Palm,
Springs
and
I'll,
just
start
off
by
saying
so
that
letter
that
we
received
received
from
Shankman.
That
was
as
him
representing
the
Southwest
voter
registration
education
project,
which
is
a
civil
rights
organization
for
Latinos
and
they
they're
represented
throughout
the
state
and
so
on
behalf
of
that
organization,
he
sent
the
letter
to
Palm
Springs
on
April
19th,
the
City
Council
discussed
and
decided
to
adopt
a
resolution
of
intention
to
transition
to
district
based
elections.
B
B
The
CVR,
a
working
group
recommended
a
statement
of
principles
to
the
City
Council
and
the
council
adopted
them
unanimous
unanimously.
Those
were
to
maximize
the
goals
of
the
California
Voting
Rights
Act,
including
civil
rights,
equality
and
inclusion,
to
prioritize
the
creation
of
minority
majority
districts
to
the
extent
practical,
keeping
organized
neighborhoods
intact,
and
to
maintain
the
principle
that
the
best
interest
of
the
city
as
a
whole
remains
the
first
responsibility
of
all
elected
officials.
B
After
that,
the
City
Council
between
July
and
September
convened
a
numerous
community
engagement
forums,
including
the
community
at
large
as
well
business
interest.
We
opened
up
our
map
drawing
session
so
that
we
provided
tools
to
the
community,
including
online
mapping
systems
that
our
demographers
actually
use
paper-based
systems
and
Excel
spreadsheets
to
assist
in
developing
those
maps,
and
we
received
over
30
community-based
maps
as
well
as
eight
maps
drawn
by
our
demographer,
which
is
national
demographic
corporation
on
September
27th.
B
The
CVR,
a
working
group
presented
its
recommendations
related
to
a
variety
of
issues
on
districting,
including
four
districts
or
five
districts
boards
and
Commission
recruitment
efforts,
and
in
a
how
to
remove
barriers
for
city
council
candidates
to
run
in
the
future.
On
December
4th,
the
City
Council
provided
direction
to
move
forward
with
five
districts
and
then
on
October
18th.
The
City
Council
narrowed
the
remaining
maps
from
19
to
top
five
maps
which
are
presented
tonight
now
through
October
through
November
15th.
B
We're
holding
a
number
of
community
engagement
forums,
including
tonight,
and
our
next
one
is
on
November
5th
at
the
James
of
Jesse
desert,
Highland
Unity
Center.
To
get
community
feedback
on
these
proposed
maps.
We've
just
read
it
to
all
of
you:
the
ballots.
What
we're
calling
a
ballot
which
has
all
of
the
maps
presented
and
we're
asking
for
you
to
indicate
which
one
is
your
favorite
and
to
provide
any
comments
that
you
can
as
to?
Why
that's
your
favorite
map
or
what
modifications
you
would
like
to
see
to
that
favorite
map
and
then
those
all.
B
Those
comments
will
be
provided
to
the
City
Council
for
its
packet
on
November
15th,
in
which
we'll
be
asking
the
City
Council
to
select
a
top
one
or
two
maps,
make
any
major
modifications
that
they
want
to
make
to
those
maps.
Those
will
be
Bri
presented
to
the
community
and
to
the
City
Council
on
November
29th,
and
at
that
point
the
council
will
make
any
final
modifications
to
its
top
map
and
then
on
December
5th.
B
We'll
ask
the
City
Council
to
adopt
the
map
without
any
additional
modifications
and
to
introduce
the
ordinance
and
then
finally,
on
December
19th
we'll
ask
the
council
to
adopt
the
ordinance
to
transition
to
district
based
elections.
And
then
you
will
see
your
first
district
based
election
in
November
of
2019,
in
which
three
council
members
will
be
selected
by
district
and
then
the
remaining
two
council
members
will
still
be
at-large
council
members
until
their
election
in
2021.
Unless
that
changes
due
to
some
state
law
requirements.
C
A
Maps
will
be
around
through
the
till.
The
next
census
is
done.
The
next
census
will
start
in
2020
will
be
completed
sometime
in
early
2021,
so
it
is
sometime
during
2021
that
we
would
potentially
be
redrawing
districts
as
just
to
how
soon
and
Anthony
please
correct
me.
If
I'm
wrong
we
can
draw
in
2021
is
going
to
depend
on
how
soon
we
have
the
data
to
do
so.
A
A
Let's
assume
for
a
moment,
we
don't
have
any
that
have
to
be
changed
under
law.
Then
the
question
would
be:
are
there
reasons
that
we
want
to
make
changes
independent
of
having
to
and
that's
conceivable
we
could
have
realized
after
the
fact?
Oh
my
gosh,
we
made
a
terrible
mistake
with
where
we
drew
the
boundaries
in
this
area.
We've
separated
an
important
community
of
interest
and
we
need
to
bring
that
community
of
interest
back
together.
A
A
C
B
A
We're
one
of
our
goals
is
not
just
split:
neighborhoods
I
think
we
were
pretty
honest
to
everyone
right
at
the
very
beginning,
with
45
neighbourhoods,
to
be
100%,
no
splits
that
that
could
be
a
tough
lift,
but
we're
gonna
make
our
best
effort.
So
far
we
have
taken,
and
we've
got
a
lot
of
meetings,
Anthony
and
I,
coming
up
with
every
neighborhood,
where
there's
even
a
possibility
that
they
will
be
split
and
we're
looking
at
at
numbers
in
those
neighborhoods.
The
ideal
population
for
any
individual
district
is
8910.
A
So
if
you've
got
a
split
of
a
neighborhood
that
is
five
six
hundred
people
in
each
that's
going
to
be
problematic.
If
it's
fifty
a
hundred
hundred
and
fifty
two
hundred
those
are
much
easier
to
take
and
and
make
adjustments
one
of
the
things
that
we
always
have
to
remember.
If
you
take
from
Peter,
you
have
to
give
something
to
somebody
else,
and
you
actually
in
this.
If
you
take
from
Peter,
you've
got
to
get
Peter
back
what
you
took
from
from
him,
and
that
has
to
come
from
some
other
districts.
A
D
A
Comes
back
to
City,
Council
and
I.
Think
one
of
the
things
and
I
don't
want
to
speak
for
a
council
two
years
down
the
road.
But
if
there's
very
modest
changes,
council
will
probably
act
pretty
quickly
based
on
those
the
modest
needs.
If
we
see
some
substantial
differences
and
we're
hearing
from
the
community,
there's
been
some
dissatisfaction
with
the
maps
as
they
were
originally
drawn.
We
may
convene
in
other
working
groups
such
as
what
we
we
did.
B
So
if
we
just
look
in
the
backside
of
the
prayer
map
on
the
very
top
line,
it's
got,
for
instance,
district
1
8840
for
being
the
total
population.
If
we
were
to
go
down
to
about
halfway
down
the
page
to
ACS
population
estimate,
which
is
now
nine
thousand
six
hundred
and
seventy-four
that's
based
on
the
American
Community
Survey,
which
is
updated,
the
last
update
was
in
2016,
and
so
you
can
just
see
that
the
total
population
for
district
1
has
gone
up
about
800
people
between
2010
to
2016.
B
D
E
We
provided
console
of
the
CVR,
a
working
group
with
a
map
that
showed
all
the
areas
that
have
been
entitled,
which
means
they've
been
approved
and
they
all
get
built
out,
but
most
of
those
won't
be
built
until
we
get
to
the
2020
census.
So
in
terms
of
new
things
going
in,
we
don't
think
there'll
be
a
big
change,
but
there's
always
small
changes.
We
don't
know
the
impact
of
vacation.
B
A
A
F
C
A
Decision
is
to
move
to
five
districts
and
our
Charter
calls
for
five
members
of
City
Council's,
so
the
mayor
will
be
rotated
in
some
fashion,
elected
from
within
the
council.
We
have
not
made
any
decision
as
to
what
that
process
will
be
the
most
common
process
that
is
used
in
cities.
Our
size
is
for
a
rotation
based
on
seniority,
each
individual
getting
an
opportunity
to
serve
the
terms
being
one
year
long
and
anyone
having
the
opportunity
to
opt
out
into
say,
I
just
prefer
not
to
carry
on
the
duties
of
mayor.
A
One
of
the
things
we're
definitely
going
to
find
moving
forward
when
you're
in
five
districts
is
a
lot
of
the
ribbon-cutting
and
ceremonial
responsibilities.
I
think
are
going
to
get
distributed
to
all
five.
If
you're
opening
the
new
restaurant,
if
you're
opening
the
new
place
of
business
in
a
district,
it
likely
will
have
been
the
City
Council
member
for
that
district.
That
was
with
you
when
you
started
first
talking
to
the
city
about
opening
the
business
that
worked
with
you,
as
you
went
through
the
planning
process
that
helped
you
get
over.
A
F
My
concern
and
what
I
drew
a
set
of
maps
was
putting
districts
with
summer
housing
composition
so
that
we
had
apartments
and
more
affordable
housing
clustered
and
so,
as
so
as
to
provide
an
opportunity
to
have
a
representative
that
reflects
the
interest
of
a
basically
a
moderate
or
lower
income
district,
one
where
policing
and
pavement
and
garbage
collection,
and
things
like
that,
may
be
a
more
of
a
concern
than
would
be
education
in
a
higher
income
neighborhood.
So
that
to
me
is
one
criteria
and
it
actually
fairly
closely
reflects
issues
also
of
minority
matter.
A
A
Those
are
very
important
communities
of
interest,
and
so
we
have
some
demographic
data
that
you
can
see
on
the
back
of
the
charts
that
are
helpful
and
I
would
very
much
welcome
comments
that
come
in
to
City,
Council
and
in
to
us
through
this
process
to
say,
I.
Think
map
X
is
the
best
map,
because
it
produces
districts
that
tend
to
congregate,
individuals
that
are
renters
that
are
multifamily,
that
have
low
income.
That
Spanish
is
a
predominant
language
spoken
in
the
home
and
I
could
go
on.
D
So,
besides
keeping
my
own
neighborhood
together
of
gene
autry,
I'm
also
concerned
about
some
districts
that
mix
very
wealthy
neighborhoods
with
working-class
neighborhoods
such
as
ourselves
and
I,
know,
there's
a
lot
of
factors
that
you
just
mentioned.
I
know
that
also
was
just
mentioned
a
moment
ago,
but
that
to
me
is
also
concerning
I.
A
A
It's
going
to
be
one
of
the
trade-offs
that
we
we
take
a
look
at,
but
we've
got
a
couple
of
maps
where
they
seem
to
be
spread
a
little
bit
more
in
others
where
there's
a
bit
more
Congress
concentration
of
wealthier
communities,
and
this
is
going
to
be
a
decision
of
five
members
of
City
Council
and
right
now.
What
I'm
trying
to
give
you
as
a
little
bit
of
some
of
the
thinking
that
I'm
hearing
but
I'm,
most
mostly
interested
in
what
you're
thinking
but.
D
E
G
I,
don't
know
how
much
I
have
to
add
to
the
discussion
that
we've
had
already.
Let
me
just
stand
up.
I
would
point
out
that
the
map
that
is
the
do
B
to
map
is
when
you
apply
the
dilution
factor.
When
we
actually
look
at
citizens
of
voting
age,
it
has
the
greatest
dilution
of
the
miner.
What
that
means
is
when
you
look
at
total
population,
that's
a
hard
demographic
number
and
all
the
districts
have
to
be
within
the
same
ten
percent
of
total
population.
G
When
you
look
at
citizens
of
voting
age
population,
when
you
actually
look
at
whose
enfranchised
under
the
law
as
a
hard
demographic,
there
is
what's
known
as
a
dilution
factor
we
find
in
Palm
Springs.
The
dilution
factor
hits
the
Latino
community
the
hardest,
because
there
is
a
big
percentage
of
children
who
are
under
the
age
of
21,
who
cannot
vote
it
and
in
some
of
the
neighborhoods
it's
as
high
as
50%,
which
is
quite
a
significant
dilution.
G
Therefore,
in
looking
at
creating
an
equal
playing
field
between
majorities
and
minorities,
we
should
look
at
citizens
of
voting
age
and
when
you
look
at
that
hard
core
demographic,
the
map,
all
the
way
over,
really
doesn't
attain
a
50/50
even
playing
field.
That's
why
it
was
we
put
forward
as
the
other
formats.
Just
keep
that
in
mind.
A
I
have
a
question
for
you.
One
of
the
discussions
that
we're
having
is
whether
or
not
Downton
should
be
kept
together
in
more
or
less
one
or
two
districts,
or
should
we
try
to
have
as
many
as
three
or
four
districts
that
touch
the
downtown?
Do
any
of
you
have
strong
opinions
on
how
downtown
should
be
dealt
with.
C
I
believe
it
was
a
comment
made
fairly
in
on
the
process
from
somebody
from
holy
Cathedral
City
indicated
that
they
had
divided
downtown
they're
111
corridor,
and
that
struck
me
as
a
really
good
idea.
So
the
map
that
I
submitted
had
two
core
downtown
districts
in
a
teeny
corner
at
Ramone,
where
Ramone
and
Indian
Canyon
and
Palm
Canyon
come
together.
So
he
got
sort
of
like
the
five
hundred
or
something
like
that
in
that
district.
I.
C
D
D
E
I
was
at
the
meeting
last
Saturday
night,
where
I
think
it
was
dieter
talked
about
the
importance
of
the
fact
that
the
commercial
districts
aren't
all
downtown
and
that
there's
a
very
big
commercial
district
that
impacts
what's
sort
of
North
District
on
four
of
the
maps,
which
is
on
Ramon,
where
Walmart
is
and
Home
Depot
and
Lowe's
and
I
know
as
a
person
who
shot
who
lives
there.
That's
I
tend
to
shop
there
a
lot
more
and
go
there
more
than
I
go
downtown.
A
Very
definitely,
and
one
of
the
things
that
the
desert
Highland
neighborhood
has
in
common
with
the
DeMuth
Park
neighborhood,
is
that
both
of
them
have
light
industrial
manufacturing
immediately
adjacent
to
their
neighborhood.
Another
area
of
alignment
is
cannabis.
Operations
are
beginning
to
congregate
in
certain
neighborhoods,
and
that
is
creating
some
issues
for
those
neighborhoods.
A
Going
once
going
twice,
alright,
we
will
be
here
for
a
few
minutes.
If
you
would
like
to
come
up
one
on
one,
we
would
love
to
have
a
chance
to
talk
with
you.
Thank
you
for
coming
out
this
evening.
Yes,
sir,
what
we
would
like
you
to
do
is
put
your
gold
star
next,
our
gold
circle
next
to
the
map
that
you
think
is
the
best,
but,
most
importantly
on
that
ballot
map,
please
identify
what
it
is
that
you
like,
and
don't
like.
The
reasoning
is
really
important
to
us.