loki anderson wrote: > Couple of things: First of all, the most obvious > difference is the number of wards in the city. To come > close to the house district boundaries, we'd need to > have six and a half senate districts in the city, > which we don't.
I'm not suggesting that ward boundaries match up exactly with the House districts. As Terrell Brown pointed out, some Senate districts extend across municipal boundaries, so they won't always work for designating the wards. It just seems to me that matching our ward boundaries as best we can with the senate districts would be in our best interest. (unless of course the senate districts are drawn somehow to our disadvantage) I haven't examined the city charter so I don't know for sure how many council seats are mandated, but the six senate districts presently representing Minneapolis could be split roughly in half to reach 12 council seats, pretty close to our 13 currently. Something seems out of sync with our election cycle if we're not picking new council members right after redistricting. I suspect this will eventually be changed. Another observation of the latest senate redistricting map. I already mentioned that district 60 as proposed has the greatest deviation from the ideal population of any in the state, in excess of 1,289 persons. Incidentally, the next greatest deviation is found in the adjacent district 61 (approximating wards six and eight) which is short of ideal by 1,154 persons. This seems like it should be repairable. Maybe this is situation is unavoidable for some reason I've overlooked. Glad I'm not responsible for juggling this these dangerously sharp knives. conor donnelly WaiteParkWardOne formerly of LowryHillEast, Corcoran, Howe, NorthEastPark, UofM, and starting in Seward. _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
