File #: O-3-23    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Second Reader
File created: 1/25/2023 In control: City Council
On agenda: 9/11/2023 Final action:
Title: 2023 Redistricting and Revised 'Election Wards' Boundaries - For the purpose of revising the Annapolis City Council Ward boundaries due to population shifts revealed in the 2020 Census; and generally related to City election wards.
Sponsors: Karma O'Neill
Indexes: Rules and City Government Committee
Attachments: 1. O-3-23 First Reader, 2. O-3-23 Amendment 1 - Finlayson (Rules Cmte. Chair), 3. O-3-23 Staff Report, 4. O-3-23 Fiscal Impact Note, 5. Annapolis Ward Boundaries & Redistricting Task Force Final Report - April 2022, 6. Ward Boundaries Task Force City Council Presentation, 7. Map C, 8. Map 3C, 9. Ward Boundaries Map - Proposed (2024)
Title
2023 Redistricting and Revised 'Election Wards' Boundaries - For the purpose of revising the Annapolis City Council Ward boundaries due to population shifts revealed in the 2020 Census; and generally related to City election wards.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 3-23

Introduced by: Alderwoman O'Neill
Co-sponsored by:

Referred to
Rules and City Government Committee

AN ORDINANCE concerning

2023 Redistricting and Revised 'Election Wards' Boundaries

FOR the purpose of revising the Annapolis City Council Ward boundaries due to population shifts revealed in the 2020 Census; and generally related to City election wards.

BY repealing and reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2022 Edition
Chapter 1.16

BY enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2022 Edition
1.16.100

WHEREAS, Article II, Section 1 of the Charter of the City of Annapolis states, "the city shall be divided by ordinance into eight (8) wards of approximately equal proportion."; and

WHEREAS, Article III, Section 2 of the Charter of the City of Annapolis states that the City Council has the power to, "...divide the city into election districts, define their bounds and limits, and correct the same from time to time, so as to preserve as accurately as may be an equal number of inhabitants in each of said districts..."; and

WHEREAS, Since the 1970 U.S. Census, the City Council has sought citizen assistance with reevaluating the boundaries of its wards; and

WHEREAS, The last time the City of Annapolis conducted redistricting activities was in 2012 after the 2010 Census data was released; and

WHEREAS, As a result of the 2020 Census, it is necessary to adjust the ward boundaries in the City so that the eight wards shall have approximately equal populations; and

WHEREAS, Resolution 4-21 established the Annapolis Ward Boundary and Redistricting Task Force to receive publi...

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