CC RESOLUTION 4726RESOLUTION NO. 4726
A RESOLUTION RESTATING THE CITY'S RECOMMENDATION TO
THE CITIZEN'S REDISTRICTING COMMISSION THAT THE
COMMISSION TREAT THE SOUTH BAY BEACH CITIES OF LOS
ANGELES COUNTY AS A COMMUNITY OF INTEREST AND MAKE
EVERY EFFORT TO KEEP SOUTH BAY BEACH CITIES WITHIN THE
SAME DISTRICT FOR DRAWING STATE ASSEMBLY, STATE
SENATE, AND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES.
The City Council of the city of El Segundo does resolve as follows:
SECTION 1: The City Council finds and declares as follows:
A. By passing Proposition 11 and affirming it through Proposition 20 the
voters of California have made known that their will is to have voters
choose their legislators, rather than legislators choose their voters.
B. The citizens of the South Bay, have had their voices weakened by having
their representation be split among them and much larger cities and
geographic areas with often contradictory concerns and interests, and
have been denied the right to have representatives of all parties truly
compete for their vote.
C. One of the criteria for apportionment defined by Proposition 11 was for the
new Citizen's Redistricting Commission to take into consideration and to
preserve Communities of Interest when drawing district lines.
D. The South Bay beach cities constitute a community of interest that has
traditionally been committed to working effectively on common coastal,
economic and environmental issues. These South Bay beach cities are
comprised of El Segundo, Hermosa Beach, Lomita, Manhattan Beach,
Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, Rolling
Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, and Torrance.
E. Having the South Bay community of interest represented as much as
possible by a single congressional, assembly or state senate district in the
2011 reapportionment would be in the best interest of voters and would
enable the best alignment of government with regional interests.
F. The City Council did on May 17, 2011, adopt a resolution that sets forth its
request with respect to the redistricting process. The City has learned that
the Commission is considering drafting district boundaries inconsistent
with the City's request regarding the district boundaries and is
consequently passing this resolution to restate its request.
SECTION 2: The City Council of El Segundo recommends to the citizen's redistricting
commission that they treat the South Bay beach cities of Los Angeles County as a
community of interest from the standpoint of redistricting to the largest extent practical,
and that they make every effort to keep the aforementioned South Bay beach cities
within the same district from the standpoint of drawing state assembly, state senate and
congressional district boundaries.
SECTION 3: This Resolution will become effective immediately upon adoption and will
remain effective unless superseded or repealed.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 19th day of July, 2011.
Eric Busc , Mayor
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Cindy Mirtesen, City Clerk
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