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1. Ordinance 1446 - Ward Boundaries Adjustment - 2nd ReadingCharles A. Harball City Attorney City of Kalispell Office of City Attorney 312 First Avenue East P.O. Box 1997 Kalispell, MT 59903-1997 MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Pamela B. Kennedy and Kalispell City Council FROM: Charles Harball, City Attorney Chris A. Kukulski, City Manager DATE: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Tel 406.758.7708 Fax 406.758.7771 charball@kalispell.com SUBJECT: Redistricting for 2000 Census — Ordinance 1446 — Second Reading MEETING DATE: Monday, March 17, 2003 BACKGROUND: Every ten years, after the federal census has been finalized, the City is required to examine its voter wards to determine if they are fairly proportioned. For our purposes this means that each of the four wards should contain approximately the same number of people. This task of analyzing the maps and the numbers was assigned to the Tri. City Planning Office because of the existing resources in that office and their capabilities of using computer analysis to assist in the job. The goals that were given to Tri-City were these: 1) to change the boundaries as little as possible, 2) if a boundary was changed, to make such change as logical and simple as possible, and 3) to keep the population of each ward within at least 2% of the mean. Based upon the 2000 Census of Kalispell, each ward would ideally contain 3,702 people. The boundary lines as drawn for Ordinance 1446 would place the population of each of the wards within 2% of this ideal. In raw numbers this means that the ward with the largest deviation would only be within 88 people of this number while the ward with the smallest deviation would be within 24 people of this ideal. Please refer to the memo of Tom Jentz, attached, for further explanation of the statistical analysis used. I believe that Ordinance 1446 accomplishes all of the goals of redistricting as there is minimal changing of boundaries with such changes being simple and logical while keeping the deviations within 2% of the mean. Ward Redistricting Memo March 12, 2003 Page - 2 RECOMMENDATION: At the last meeting of March 3, 2003 the Council passed Ordinance 1446 on first reading. I recommend that Council pass Ordinance 1446 as written and that it resist the temptation to try to further simplify or move boundaries based on some other sense of symmetry or logic. Staff spent many hours, with the aid of computerized maps, moving lines and testing boundaries. What is learned from this is that moving a single block from one ward to another creates significant deviations in the statistical outcome. In other words, this is not as simple as it looks. FISCAL EFFECTS: None. Respectfully sub d, Char es 14argall, City Attorney Chris A. Kukulski, City Manager Office of City Attorney City of Kalispell ORDINANCE NO. 1446 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 6-1 OF THE KALISPELL CITY CODE (ORDINANCE NO. 1341) BY RE-ESTABLISHING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE WARDS OF THE CITY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL, MONTANA, THAT SECTION 6-1 OF THE CITY CODE (ORDINANCE NO. 1341) BE AMENDED AS SECTION I. The territory embraced within the limits of the City shall be and the same is hereby divided into four wards, bounded and described as hereinafter set forth. A) Ward No. 1: Ward No. 1 shall consist of all that territory within the corporate City limits of the City of Kalispell Westerly of a line beginning at the Northerly City limits and the Center line of U.S. Highway 93, thence along the Center line of U.S. Highway 93 to the Southerly intersection of Utah Street, thence Westerly along the Southerly line of Utah Street to the Westerly intersection of Fifth Avenue West, thence southerly along the Westerly line of Fifth Avenue West to the Northerly intersection of Third Street West, thence Westerly along the Northerly line of Third Street West to the Westerly corporate limits of the City of Kalispell. B) Ward No. 2: Ward No. 2 shall consist of all that territory within the corporate limits of the City of Kalispell Easterly of a line beginning at the Northerly city limits and the Center line of US Highway 93 to the Southerly intersection of Utah Street, thence Westerly along the Southerly line of Utah Street to the Westerly intersection of Fifth Avenue West, thence Southerly along the Westerly line of Fifth Avenue West to the BN Railroad Tracks, thence Easterly along the center line of the BN Railroad Tracks to the Easterly Corporate limits of the City of Kalispell. C) Ward No. 3: Ward No. 3 shall consist of all that territory within the corporate limits of the City of Kalispell lying Southerly of the South boundary of Ward No. 1 and Ward No. 2, above described, and Northerly of a line beginning at the intersection of the Easterly City limit and the Southerly line of Woodland Park Addition, thence Westerly along the Southerly boundary of Woodland Park Addition to the Westerly intersection of Woodland Avenue, thence Southerly along the Westerly line of Woodland Avenue to the Southerly intersection of Eight Street East, thence Westerly along the Southerly line of Eighth Street East to the Westerly intersection of Fifth Avenue West, thence Southerly along Fifth Avenue West to the intersection of Ninth Street West and Ninth Avenue West, thence Northerly along Ninth Avenue West to the intersection of Eighth Street West, thence Westerly along Eighth Street West to the intersection of Tenth Avenue West, thence Southerly along abandoned Tenth Avenue West to the intersection of Ninth Street West, thence Southwesterly along and to the end of Ninth Street West, thence Westerly and Northerly along the corporate limits boundary to the Southerly right of way boundary of Eighth Street West, thence Westerly to the Westerly corporate limits of the City of Kalispell. D) Ward No. 4: Ward No. 4 shall consist of all that territory within the corporate City limits of the City of Kalispell lying Southerly of the South boundary of Ward No. 3. SECTION II. As there are additions made to the corporate limits of the City of Kalispell, the aforesaid boundary lines of the respective wards shall be extended in a Northerly, Easterly or Westerly direction, as the case may be, along the center line of the nearest extended street running Northerly, Easterly, or Westerly, as the case may be, to the City limits. SECTION III. This Ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days from and after the date of its final passage and approval. PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND SIGNED BY THE MAYOR THIS DAY OF , 2003. Pamela B. Kennedy Mayor ATTEST: Theresa White City Clerk