LEGISLATIVE YEAR 2021
ORDINANCE: O-21-081
PURPOSE: Relative to the revision of ward boundaries
ENDORSER(S): Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
COMMITTEE
ASSIGNMENT:
FISCAL NOTE: None.
ANALYSIS
City Charter § 3 provides that at least as often as each recurring federal census, the board of
aldermen shall review the ward boundaries and, if necessary to comply with the Constitutional
requirement to equalize populations, shall, by ordinance, re-divide the city into nine wards. A
public hearing on the proposed ward boundaries shall be held not more than 30 days before its
adoption by the board of aldermen, at such time and place as the board of aldermen shall direct,
and notice of such public hearing shall be published at least 30 days in advance of the hearing by
the city clerk. In addition, informational meetings shall be held in all wards proposed for
boundary changes not more than 30 days before the vote. All wards shall be composed of
contiguous and compact territory, as nearly equal in population as possible, and bounded by
natural boundaries, street lines, railroad tracks or other easily identifiable physical features.
Notwithstanding any changes in the ward boundaries, the elected ward officers in office at the
time of the re-division of city wards shall continue in said offices until the end of the terms for
which they were elected.
Approved as to form: Office of Corporation Counsel
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