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 Long Beach
 City Charter
 Article XXV. COUNCILMANIC DISTRICTS AND REDISTRICTING

  § 2509. ADMINISTRATION.  

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  • (a)

    The City Council shall appropriate sufficient funds to recruit commissioners, meet the operational needs of the Commission, and conduct any outreach program to solicit broad public participation in the redistricting process.

    (b)

    The City Manager, City Clerk, and City Attorney shall assign sufficient staff to support the Commission. The Commission shall be staffed by no less than three (3) City employees: the City Manager, the City Clerk, and the City Attorney, or their respective representatives. The City Attorney's, or his/her respective representative's, only client on matters relating to redistricting is the Commission.

    (c)

    The City Clerk and the City Attorney, or their respective representatives, shall, no later than March 1, 2021, and thereafter by March 1 in every year ending in one, train the commissioners on the requirements of this article, federal and state law regarding redistricting, open meeting requirements, and general rules of parliamentary procedure.

    (d)

    The City Manager and the City Clerk shall, by January 1, 2020, and thereafter by January 1 in every year ending in zero, provide a report to the Mayor and City Council that explains, at minimum, plans for: recruiting a qualified applicant pool that the reflects the City's diversity; assigning sufficient staff to support the Commission's activities; training commissioners; providing work space and relevant technology to support the Commission's activities; facilitating an open selection process to hire redistricting consultants; identifying and reserving meeting spaces suitable for holding public meetings in each Council district; creating a website for the Commission; and encouraging public participation in the redistricting process.

    (e)

    Within 60 days after the adoption of a final map, the Commission shall transmit a report to the Mayor and City Council recommending any changes, including amendments to this article, that could improve the redistricting process in future years. The City Council may, by two-thirds vote, adopt by ordinance changes to time limits and deadlines imposed by this article that are specifically recommended by the Commission.

(Added by Meas. DDD, 11-6-2018, eff. 12-11-2018)