Speaker 1: Thank you. Next step is item number 25. Homelessness 20th five. Sorry, we did that. 125.
Speaker 2: Redistricting item twice. Report from Development Services Recommendation to direct City Manager to work with appropriate department to conduct the next population review for the redistricting after the 2020 Census.
Speaker 1: City Vice Mayor Richardson As.
Speaker 6: We don't need a brief.
Speaker 1: Brief step unless.
Speaker 6: You want.
Speaker 1: One. Yes, we do. So sort we.
Speaker 6: Really brief one then.
Speaker 1: Please. Christopher Koontz. Good evening or morning city council members. The City of Long Beach is anomalous among cities here in California and that our city charter provides for the possibility of redistricting every five years instead of the ten years that would be more common in other cities. The way the charter provision works is your staff prepares estimates of the population and brings those to the Planning Commission, which has been done, and then brings forward a recommendation to the Council as to whether the redistricting should proceed.
Speaker 5: While there have been some changes in population since 2010.
Speaker 1: Those changes are insufficient in South View to warrant the redistricting. The other thing to remember is this analysis is based on sampling and estimates from a census data source called the American Community Survey, which is different than the full census, which is done every ten years.
Speaker 5: So with that.
Speaker 1: We'd be glad to answer specific questions that the Council may have. Thank you. A failure to give any comments. Okay. Councilmember Ringa.
Speaker 8: Thank you much. I have been around long enough to have gone through a couple of redistricting events in the city of Long Beach. I thought that the last ridiculous redistricting that took place in 2010 was horrible. The district is totally changed. My district is completely out of whack. It's gerrymandered. So I hope that when we bring this back to the City Council that corrections are made. The most compelling part about the redistricting that took place in 2010 was the city didn't grow that much. It grew by a couple of thousand. But yet there were radical line drawing that took place. So I hope that the city council uses more common sense in creating lines that make sense. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I know we're going to move forward and I just want to just voice that. I personally do think that there are issues currently in the way our redistricting works in regards to our numbers. And so I know that staff believes that our numbers are okay. I think. What's the largest discrepancy between District two district? Well, the district that has the population that is most inappropriate to where it should be. The ideal population for each district is around 52,000. Council District eight has approximately 56,000 people in it, according to the latest data. But keep in mind that the margin of error on that is a couple thousand persons. So it's it's not that there hasn't been growth, but it's the the degree of accuracy in the midyear data that is the basis for staff's recommendation. Great. Thank you very much. Any public comment on this? Okay. Members, just cast your vote.
Speaker 2: Motion carries.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Mr. Bowling, did you ever do you have a public comment, another one on oil prices you wanted to make? Yes, I want to do that one. Is there a Douglas Mitchell here? No. Okay. Mr. Bolen. First of all, I'd like to state that publicly that I have voted Democratic in every election since John F Kennedy
Recommendation to review the population data by Council District and direct City Manager to work with the appropriate Departments to conduct the next population review for redistricting after the 2020 decennial census.  (Citywide)