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Recommendation that City Council receive and file the correspondence dated May 9, 2011, from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/ County Clerk regarding the submittal of district boundaries for the City of Long Beach, the Long Beach Unified School District, and the Long Beach Community College District; and maintain a redistricting completion deadline of August 31, 2011. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
The attached letter from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk requests that the City of Long Beach, as well as the School and College Districts, submit their new district boundaries to the Registrar's office no later than July 8, 2011.
Given that the City Council is scheduled to submit new district boundaries by August 31, 2011, the requested July 8th deadline will not be met. This means that new district boundaries will not be placed into the elections management information system (EIMS) until shortly after December 6, 2011.
Assuming that there are no substantive or technical issues that prevent migration of the new boundary lines into the EIMS in December 2011, City Clerk staff will work with the Registrar-Recorder to ensure that the new boundary lines are in place by December 19, 2011, the first day nomination papers can be issued for the April 10, 2012, Primary Nominating Election (PNE).
As with any redistricting endeavor, City Clerk staff will then work to ensure that all Long Beach voters receive the correct ballots for the April 2012 PNE. In the event that anomalies arise as the April election approaches, City Clerk staff will have contingency plans to deal with such circumstances.
TIMING CONSIDERATIONS
None.
FISCAL IMPACT
None.
SUGGESTED ACTION
Approve recommendation.
Respectfully Submitted,
LARRY HERRERA
CITY CLERK