GUSD Draft Trustee Area Maps Presented by Justin Levitt, Vice - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

GUSD Draft Trustee Area Maps Presented by Justin Levitt, Vice President of NDC April 5, 2016 on behalf of NDC and Compass Demographics

Process 2 Date Action Jan. 12 Board Consideration & Adoption of mapping criteria & schedule Feb. 2 Board approves outreach plan and schedule Feb. 12 Draft maps posted to District website Feb. 16 Presentation to Board of Draft maps March 10 Public Forum at Roosevelt Middle School March 12 (Sat) Public Forum at GUSD Administration Building (9am) March 16 Public Forum at Crescenta Valley High School March 17 Public Forum at Toll Middle School April 5 Board holds official Public Hearing April 19 Board holds official Public Hearing. Board selection of preferred map. May 3 Board formal adoption of preferred map April, 2017 First three seats elected by trustee area April, 2019 Remaining two seats elected by trustee area April 5, 2016

Districting Criteria 3 Federal Laws Traditional Redistricting Principles Communities of interest Equal Population   Compact Federal Voting Rights Act   Contiguous No Racial Gerrymandering   Visible (Natural & man-made) boundaries  Continuity in office  Planned future growth  April 5, 2016

Defining Communities 4  There are many ways to define communities  Best way to define a neighborhood remains to hear from the people who live there  Some examples of communities of interest could include:  School attendance areas; housing developments; neighborhoods around parks; horse-friendly neighborhoods  Some communities want to be unified to maximize their voice in single trustee area election. Others (often school attendance areas) want to be divided so they have multiple representatives on the board. April 5, 2016

Spanish & Armenian Spoken at Home 5 July 14, 2015

Korean Spoken & Police Commands 6 July 14, 2015

7 GUSD School Attendance Areas April 5, 2016

8 City Neighborhoods April 5, 2016

9 Little League Regions Border at Glorietta Park Border between Isabel and Howard Streets. Brand Blvd Colorado Blvd April 5, 2016

Draft Map Notes 10 • All maps are shown overlaid on the attendance zone map (at right) • All trustee areas are contiguous and reasonably population balanced (0.4% to 4.92% per plan) • All maps are reasonably compact • All maps respect communities of interest, but in very different ways • All maps avoid pairing the trustees who are not retiring at the end of their current terms • Oddly-shaped Census Blocks complicate drawing lines in the hills April 5, 2016

Map A 11 • North consolidated in Area 1 • Fremont / Woodlands / Glenoaks in Area 2 • Glenoaks Blvd is the border between Areas 3 and 4 • Area 4 is an “I-5 Corridor” area • Southeast Area 5 April 5, 2016

Map B 12 • North of Verdugo Wash in Area 1 • Verdugo Woodlands and Glenoaks form core of Area 2 • Rancho together with the rest of NW Glendale in Area 3 (west of Pacific and north of Mountain) • Glendale south of Hwy 134 in compact east-west Areas 4 and 5 (divided by Colorado) April 5, 2016

Map B vs GCCD Areas 13 • GCCD north Area comes farther south • Population offset by bringing Area 2 up to Honolulu Blvd in Montrose • Minor shifts on border between Areas 2 and 3 April 5, 2016

Map C 14 • North consolidated in Area 1 • Fremont / Woodlands / Glenoaks in Area 2 • Railroad is the border between Areas 3 and 4 • Area 4 is a “central Glendale” Area • Area 5 is an “I-5 corridor” Area April 5, 2016

Map D 15 • Goal is to avoid division of RD White and unite RD White and Verdugo Woodlands • North has two trustees areas: 1 and 3 • Area 2 has Verdugo Woodlands, RD White and Marshall • Area 3 goes from Glenwood Rd to north edge of the City • Area 4 covers from Glenwood Rd south to Colorado • Area 5 is compact area south of Colorado April 5, 2016

Map E 16 • Requested by a participant at public forums who lives in South Glendale • Asked if the more vertical southern configuration of Plan A could be used in a revised version of Plan D • Border between Areas 3 and 4 is Glendoaks • Border in north between 1 and 3 is the City border • Area 2 has a population-balancing ‘bump’ in the west to Pacific Ave. • Area 5 has the part of the Glenoaks attendance zone south of Hwy 134, rather than a piece of RD White, to reach population balance April 5, 2016

Public Forum feedback 17  Very thoughtful, detailed discussions  Limited audience sizes – about 40 or 45 total attendees across the 4 forums  “Dot voting” and ranking of maps on the public comment forms provides general thoughts  Detailed tallies and specific public comments are included in the agenda report  Maps A received the most “best map” or dot votes in this far- from-scientific nor comprehensive tally  Map D was 2 nd in “best map” or dot votes; but Map D also, by far, received the most “worst map” votes  Unusual polarization of Map D response, which by extension would also reflect on Map E April 5, 2016

Next Steps 18  Tonight: Public Hearing and discussion of map details; direction on any new maps; possible narrowing of maps for consideration April 19 th  April 19 th : Public hearing and Board selects its preferred map  May 3 rd : Public hearing and Board adopts final map resolution Date Action April 19 Board holds official Public Hearing. Board selection of preferred map. May 3 Board formal adoption of preferred map April, 2017 First three seats elected by trustee area April, 2019 Remaining two seats elected by trustee area April 5, 2016