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Richmond City Council to add additional public meeting to its Redistricting Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting public engagement process

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18 February 2022

 

Richmond City Council to add additional public meeting to its Redistricting Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting public engagement process

 

Meeting to be held Wednesday, February 23, 2022, at 3:30 p.m.

 

Richmond, Virginia In Richmond City Council’s continued efforts to provide public awareness, engagement, and transparency for its Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting process over the last number of months, Council has added an additional public meeting to its public information and engagement schedule.

 

     The additional Redistricting meeting will be held Wednesday, February 23, 2022, at 3:30 p.m. and will be to review Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting demonstration maps and determine a map or maps for it to propose for introduction for official Council consideration.

 

·       Wednesday, February 23, 2022; 3:30 p.m.

Richmond City Council Special Meeting - Redistricting

https://richmondva.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=932294&GUID=4217F585-191C-4788-B5D1-C178C07F3D02&Search=

 

Public Engagement, Information, and Participation

Richmond residents are invited and encouraged to participate and be involved in the 2021/2022 Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting process and to share their comments, thoughts, and/or ideas regarding proposed plan or plans to be considered. The Richmond Voter Districts are to be redistricted in 2022.

 

Visit the Redistricting webpage portal

Want learn more about redistricting, see and engage with demonstration maps, or missed a Council Redistricting Information and Engagement Meeting or Map Drawing Demonstration session and/or just want to see again, please visit the Richmond City Council Redistricting information webpage portal (https://www.rva.gov/richmond-city-council/redistricting).

 

Richmonders interested in the process

Richmonders interested in the process are encouraged, invited, and requested to please take the opportunity to contact the Richmond City Council member that represents them (https://www.rva.gov/richmond-city-council/council-contacts) for more information and/or to share their thoughts and ideas regarding redistricting.

 

Find Your Richmond Voter District

Richmond residents not sure who their individual Councilmember is, can use the following helpful portal, if needed, to assist in identifying their individual Richmond Voter District:

 

·     Richmond Real Estate Property Search Database  https://apps.richmondgov.com/applications/propertysearch/Search.aspx (note: once you’ve entered your address, use the Govt. tab to identify your Voter Districts)

 

About Redistricting

Every 10 years (Decennially), following the release of the decennial census by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, voter districts across the nation are updated (reapportioned and redistricted) to reflect population shifts and changes during that time in order to provide equality of representation on behalf of voting residents when participating in general, primary, and/or special governmental elections.

 

How Richmond Voter Districts are used

To operate our local government services, our city is divided into nine geographic/demographic Richmond Voter Districts. We, as Richmond residents, use these to elect individual local members of Richmond City Council, Richmond Public Schools Board of Trustees, and a Mayor (who must earn the most votes in five of the nine Richmond Voter Districts).

 

Richmond Redistricting

State law requires Richmond City Council to reapportion/redistrict the local Richmond Voter Districts boundaries every 10 years based on U.S. Census data. This is known as the Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting process. The updated Richmond Voter Districts are to be established in 2022.

 

Public input is actively solicited, requested, encouraged, and invited

Richmond City Council also solicits, encourages, invites, and requests interested Richmond residents, in accordance with Virginia law, to offer, submit, suggest, and share public comments, including (but not limited to) data, questions, alternate plans, suggestions, etc., via the following helpful ways:

 

a.    Mail: Richmond City Council/Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting

Richmond City Hall; 900 E. Broad Street, Suite 305; Richmond, Virginia 23219

 

b.    Fax: 804.646.5468

 

c.    Email at: Contact Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting information portal via email, at redistricting@rva.gov.

 

    Richmond City Council continues to be committed to ensuring the 2021/2022 Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting process and plan are clearly defined, transparent, inclusive, and equitable and are driven by and responsive to providing opportunity for public engagement, involvement, inclusion, discussion, awareness, feedback, deliberation, comment, and input on behalf of Richmond residents.

 

 

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