I've put more material on my website www.members.tripod.com/markusfredric/minneapolismaps and I certainly welcome constructive suggestions about further backgrounding. I don't intend to put any hypothetical redrawing of the ward boundaries on this website for now - my premise is that we all need to know more about underlying demographics brought to us by the 2000 Census before we start carving away for real and we need input from the public as specified in the City Charter.
Nor am I reporting aggregated data at the NRP neighborhood or Minneapolis planning community levels - these are available at http://www.nrp.org/ and http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/. What's best for the fine-grained work that redistricting requires is to follow along with us Commissioners as we discuss our tasks. We have a discussion meeting tomorrow, Monday, March 18, at 6:00 pm in Rm. 220 City Hall, then a public hearing in the Council Chamber on Thursday, March 21, also starting at 6:00 pm. There is one more discussion meeting at 6:00 pm in Rm. 220 on Monday, March 25, and then we have to get down to business and make some decisions. Tentatively, we expect to have a draft plan ready for legal notice publication on Monday or Tuesday after Easter weekend - we'll meet April 2 or 3, depending on production time required for metes and bounds work (legal text exact descriptions of the boundaries) - and then a public hearing about our draft plan on Thursday, April 11, and a final enactment meeting on Friday, April 12, starting at 12:00 noon. City Council appointees Commissioner Rick Stafford and I get to go home thereafter and our places are taken by Redistricting Commissioners-elect Tony Scallon and Scott Neiman, who will work with the balance of the Redistricting Commissioners to draw new Park Board lines. Somewhere in the middle of all this, the City Council will have the task of redrawing precinct lines with a maximum of ten precincts for each of the thirteen wards. The whole process has to be done and in the mail to Hennepin County by April 30. Fred Markus, Horn Terrace, Ward Ten, Redistricting Commissioner _______________________________________ 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
