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City <br /> <br />Item # <br /> <br />5o3. <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />Sandra Peine, City Clerk <br /> <br />April 8, 2002 <br /> <br />Redistricting Plan for City of Elk River <br /> <br />On February 25, 2002 the Council reviewed a proposed redistricting map of the City of Elk <br />River. At that time the City was only looking at the necessity of redistricting it's four wards <br />to more evenly distribute the population. The Council unofficially gave its nod of approval <br />to the proposed plan. Since that time, the courts have adopted the congressional and <br />legislative redistricting plans, which made it necessary for the City to revise the proposed <br />City redistricting plan. The congressional plan placed the City in the 6* Congressional <br />District and did not split Elk River. The legislative redistricting plan, on the other hand, split <br />the City placing Elk River into two different senate dismcts and two different legislative <br />districts. Elk River is now in Senate Districts 16 and 48 and in State Legislative Districts 16B <br />and 48A. <br /> <br />Staff has slightly modified the previously proposed City redistricting plan to incorporate the <br />legislative redistricting plan. The chart below shows how the population per ward has <br />changed from 1990 to 2000 and what is currently proposed.Wards two and four ate <br />purposely low in the third colurrm because of anticipated future growth. <br /> <br />Ward 1990 Population 2000 Population 2002 Population <br /> following <br /> Redistricting <br />1 2535 4564 4386 <br />2 2877 4864 3796 <br />3 2889 3842 4424 <br />4 2842 3177 3841 <br /> <br />City Precinct Plan <br /> <br />Staff is proposing to split each election ward into two precincts, mainly for the purpose of <br />organizing and administering elections. Precincts are not tied to population size, but they are <br /> <br /> <br />