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HMB Redistricting Advisory Committee Wonders How Rank Choice Voting Would Integrate with Redistricting on the Coastside

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VIDEO. From the City of Half Moon Bay Redistricting Advisory Committee Meeting on Thursday, July 15th, 2021 at 7:00pm by Zoom.

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Tweak the Vote? What is Rank Choice Voting? From WNYC’s Radiolab

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Democracy is on the ropes.  In the United States and abroad, citizens of democracies are feeling increasingly alienated, disaffected, and powerless.  Some are even asking themselves a question that feels almost too dangerous to say out loud: is democracy fundamentally broken?

Today on Radiolab, just a day before the American midterm elections, we ask a different question: how do we fix it?  We scrutinize one proposed tweak to the way we vote that could make politics in this country more representative, more moderate, and most shocking of all, more civil.  Could this one surprisingly do-able mathematical fix really turn political campaigning from a rude bloodsport to a campfire singalong? And even if we could do that, would we want to?

This episode was reported by Latif Nasser, Simon Adler, Sarah Qari, Suzie Lechtenberg and Tracie Hunte, and was produced by Simon Adler, Matt Kielty, Sarah Qari, and Suzie Lechtenberg.

Special thanks to Rob Richie (and everyone else at Fairvote), Don Saari, Diana Leygerman, Caroline Tolbert, Bobby Agee, Edward Still, Jim Blacksher, Allen Caton, Nikolas Bowie, John Hale, and Anna Luhrmann and the rest of the team at the Varieties of Democracy Institute in Sweden.

Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate. 

oh…and GO VOTE!

Produced by Latif Nasser, Sarah Qari, Suzie Lechtenberg, Simon Adler, Matt Kielty and Tracie Hunte
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First Redistricting Advisory Committee Special Meeting Agenda – 7/15/2021

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VIDEO. From the City of Half Moon Bay Redistricting Advisory Committee meeting on Thursday, July 15th, 2021 at 7:00pm by Zoom

 

BACKGROUND

The City of Half Moon Bay’s Redistricting Advisory Committee was formed by the City Council at its May 18, 2021 meeting to study and recommend updated draft boundaries for City Council districts based on results of the 2020 Census. The Redistricting Advisory Committee is comprised of seven members, who were appointed June 15, 2021:

  • Michal Settles
  • Claudia Marshall
  • Marin Holt
  • Paul Gater
  • Steve Maller
  • Phil Marshall
  • Hal Bogner

Redistricting Advisory Committee Calendar

The Committee will meet over the course of the next 10 months to receive public input on draft maps, communities of interest, elections sequencing, and other important issues all culminating with an adopted final map by the City Council that will be used in Half Moon Bay elections for the next 10 years. Weekday meetings will be held at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday meetings will be held at 11:00 a.m. Meetings will be conducted via Zoom through September, then will move to in-person.

  • JULY 15 (RAC) – INTRODUCTION (BROWN ACT, PRA, OVERVIEW OF TRANSITION TO DISTRICTS, REDISTRICTING BASICS)
  • AUGUST 12 (RAC) – PUBLIC / COMMITTEE WORKSHOP ON MAPPING, LEGISLATION, ETC.
  • AUGUST 19 (RAC) – PUBLIC / COMMITTEE WORKSHOP ON DISTRICT MODEL / ELECTION SEQUENCING
  • AUGUST 26 (RAC) – PUBLIC HEARING #1
  • SEPTEMBER  2 (RAC) – PUBLIC HEARING #2
  • AUGUST 16 – CENSUS DATA RELEASED (LEGACY FORMAT)
  • LATE SEPTEMBER – CALIFORNIA PRISONER-ADJUSTED DATA AVAILABLE
  • LATE OCTOBER – END OF MANDATED THREE-WEEK WAITING PERIOD TO RELEASE MAPS
  • NOVEMBER 8 (MONDAY) (RAC) – FIRST DRAFTS OF COMMITTEE MAPS, SELECT 3-5 FOCUS MAPS
  • DECEMBER 16 (RAC) – SELECT 2-3 FOCUS MAPS
  • JANUARY 19 (WEDNESDAY) (COUNCIL) – PUBLIC HEARING #3, REVIEW FOCUS MAPS, PROVIDE REVISIONS, IF ANY
  • JANUARY 22 (SATURDAY) (RAC) – PUBLIC INPUT ON FOCUS MAPS
  • JANUARY  27 (RAC) – PUBLIC INPUT ON FOCUS MAPS
  • FEBRUARY 15 (CITY COUNCIL) – PUBLIC HEARING #4, FINAL MAP SELECTION & ELECTION SEQUENCING
  • MARCH 15 (CITY COUNCIL) – CITY COUNCIL ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE ADOPTING DISTRICT MAP & ELECTION SEQUENCING (ADOPTION BY RESOLUTION IF SB 594 IS ENACTED).
  • APRIL 17 – DEADLINE FOR COUNCIL ADOPTION OF MAP (APRIL 5 CITY COUNCIL MEETING)
  • MAY 12 – COMMITTEE CLOSING CELEBRATION

 

 

City Council of Half Moon Bay Meets ~ 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 7:00pm

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The City Council of Half Moon Bay

The City Council of Half Moon Bay is the City’s governing body, and consists of five elected members. The Council sets priorities and policies, makes final decisions on all major City matters, adopts ordinances and resolutions, appoints the City Manager and City Attorney, and approves the annual budget.

City Council members are elected at-large to four-year, overlapping terms. There are no term limits in Half Moon Bay. The City Council selects one of its members to serve as Mayor and one to serve as Vice Mayor, on an annual basis.

The Half Moon Bay City Council typically meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month starting at 7 pm at the Ted Adcock Community Center, 535 Kelly Avenue.

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The City Council typically meets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, at 7 pm, at Ted Adcock Community Center, 535 Kelly Avenue. City Council meeting schedule, agendas, minutes, and videos are available online. Planning on attending a City Council Meeting? Please visit our “Commenting at a City Council Meeting” information page. You can also learn about City Council Procedures and Decorum.

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The City Council develops Strategic Elements to help focus the City’s actions and work plans on its key priorities. The Strategic Elements are aimed at providing high quality public services and facilities in a fiscally sustainable, responsive, and friendly manner, which fosters a safe, healthy, and thriving community.

 

Half Moon Bay City Council Subcommittees

  • CSFA Grant Selection
  • Education
  • Emergency Preparedness
  • Finance
  • Human Resources
  • Legislative Affairs
  • Mobility
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