§ 178 — Administration

§ 178 Administration.

(a) The city council shall appropriate sufficient funds to recruit commissioners, meet the operational needs of the commission, and conduct any outreach program to solicit broad public participation in the redistricting process. The council shall appropriate at least the amount spent in 2011 on redistricting, adjusted for inflation using the consumer price index. (b) The city manager, city clerk, and city attorney shall assign sufficient staff to support the commission. The commission shall be staffed by no less than three city employees: the city manager, the city clerk, and the city attorney, or their respective representatives. The city attorney's only client on matters relating to redistricting is the commission. (c) Subject to the funds appropriated to the commission by the city council, the commission may hire an executive director and redistricting, technology, outreach, or other consultants, following a competitive selection process. (d) The city clerk and the city attorney, or their respective designees, shall, no later than March 1, 2021, and thereafter by March 1 in every year ending in one, train the commissioners on the requirements of this article, federal and state law regarding redistricting, open meeting requirements, and general rules of parliamentary procedure. (e) The city clerk shall, by January 1, 2020, and thereafter by January 1 in every year ending in zero, provide a report to the city council that explains, at minimum, plans for: recruiting a qualified applicant pool that the reflects the city's diversity; assigning sufficient staff to support the commission's activities; training commissioners; providing work space and relevant technology to support the commission's activities, including city email addresses for commissioners; facilitating an open selection process to hire redistricting consultants; identifying and reserving meeting spaces suitable for holding public meetings in each council district; creating a website for the commission; and encouraging public participation in the redistricting process. (f) Within 60 days after the adoption of a final map, the commission shall transmit a report to the city council recommending any changes, including amendments to this article, that could improve the redistricting process in future years. The city council may, by three-fourths vote, adopt by ordinance changes to time limits and deadlines imposed by this article that are specifically recommended by the commission. (g) No person may threaten, intimidate, coerce, or take adverse action against a commissioner, alternate, or a commission staffer because of their affiliation with the commission, or because of any council district boundaries that are considered, proposed, or adopted by the commission. (Added by Res. 2016-0258, 7/26/16)