BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4150782:Event:146399 DTSTAMP:20260517T194416Z SUMMARY:Redistricting: Special Rules Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION:FROM: Honorable Bill Bishop, Chair\nRules Committee\n \nR E: Special Rules Comm Meeting on Ord 2011-554, 10-6-11\nNotice is here by given that the Honorable Bill Bishop, Chair of the Rules Committee, is calling a Special Rules Committee Meeting and will meet with the C ommittee members regarding the legislation listed below to be held on October 6, 2011 at 2:00 P.M. in the Council Chamber, 1st Floor of City Hall, 117 W. Duval St, Jacksonville, Florida.\n \n2011-554 ORD to Ad opt & Enact Reapportionmt Plan re Jax City Council Dists & Residence A reas & Designating the Duval County School Bd Dists following the 2010 Census of the City as Required by Secs 5.02 (Reapportionmt of Council Districts and Residence Areas) & 13.03 (Apportionmt of School Bd Dist s), City Charter; Amend Charter to Attach New Boundary Descriptions & Designate the 7 School Bd Dists.\n \nAll interested parties are encou raged to attend. Please mark your calendars accordingly.\nOn the relat ed blog, please be advised Mike Yost had this to say about the compact districts map:\n\nI had an opportunity today to inspect both proposed maps for the City Council redistricting. Also, there was another map showing each precinct and the election results from the 2010 Mayoral r ace as well as a map showing voting results accumulated over 10 years. When do an overlay of the 2 proposed maps with the voting block resul ts, you end up with the following results:\n \n1. Under the Schellenb erg map, you would end up with a City Council that composed 7 Democrat Districts and 7 Republican Districts. There are only 3 minority-major ity Districts. That results in retrogression of the current minority-m ajority Districts. (The At-Large seats are not affected since they are city wide voting)\n \n2. Under the Original Committee map, there are 4 minority-majority seats preserved and there are 6 Democrat District s and 8 Republican Districts. Minority Districts are preserved as far an numbers and no retrogression has occurred. (At-Large seats are stil l unaffected with either map)\n \nNow, what I found most interesting is that there has been little Democrat \"opposition\" or verbal assaul t on the Schellenberg Map. From all indications, only ONE Democrat on City Council has voiced any opposition, and few Democrats are voicing opposition to that map. So I wondered even more as to why that was the case. Well, obviously, Democrats stand every chance to pick up anothe r City Council Seat, even though it would be retrogressive in nature.\ n \nSo I made a phone call to a well trusted Democrat that I knew wou ld give me the entire reasoning. Their comment astounded me. \"We are MORE than happy to NOT speak up, since we are allowing the Tea Party t o carry the water on the Schellenberg map FOR US\". That way, to parap hrase, we get another seat, will most like face court challenges, OR i t will NO map will get voted on- or split- and then the Courts will dr aw the maps.\n \nTHEN, there was indication that they believed that t he Court would draw something close to the Schellenberg map that WOULD give them the 7-7 split AND also the preservation of the 4 minority a ccess Districts. So they were MORE than happy to allow the Tea Party t o throw this into limbo and create a fight that WOULD benefit the Demo crats in 2 Districts.\n \nI am aware that the big push is for Compact Districts. That DOES seem like a \"good idea\", however, it is a fact that there are several reasons for District shapes as they are drawn. Some are political, others are racial, and others are geographical. S ometimes, the objective desired with one criteria will skew things to another.\n \nI am NOT taking sides one way or the other, but ONLY rel aying information as it was presented.\n\nFor more information visit h ttps://firstcoastteaparty.ning.com/events/redistricting-special-rules- committee-meeting DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20111006T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20111006T160000 CATEGORIES:city, council, special, rules, committee, meeting LOCATION:City Hall, Council Chambers WEBSITE: URL: CONTACT: ORGANIZER;CN="Patricia M. 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