Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: President David Canepa, District 5
Vice-President Don Horsley, District 3
Subject: Discuss and/or Act Regarding County's 2021 Supervisorial District Lines Advisory Commission
RECOMMENDATION:
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Discuss and/or act regarding formation of the County's 2021 Supervisorial District Lines Advisory Commission.
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BACKGROUND:
The Board must ensure that the County's Supervisorial districts, which were formed in 2013, remain substantially equal in population based on data from the 2020 federal census and still comply with the United States Constitution, the California Constitution, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and new state law district-drawing requirements. (Elec. Code, ? 21500.)
To assist with the district-drawing process in 2013, the Board formed an advisory committee, the San Mateo County Supervisorial District Lines Advisory Committee, which consisted of two Board members (Supervisor Slocum and then-Supervisor Tissier), two elected city representatives (one from Daly City and one from East Palo Alto), and five public members, one from each Supervisorial district.
On January 26, 2021, the Board decided to again form a Commission to advise it on supervisorial districts pursuant to Elections Code Section 23000, et seq. and appointed an ad hoc district lines subcommittee consisting of President Canepa and Vice-President Horsley and asked it to return to the Board with recommendations on formation of the advisory commission ("Subcommittee").
DISCUSSION:
A. Advisory Commission Formation and Role
As discussed at the January 26th meeting, the Board controls both who is appointed to the advisory commission and the process for appointment. (Elec. Code, ? 23002(b).) Indeed, the only limitation under the law (a change since 2013) is that "[a] person who is an elected official of the [County], or a family member, staff member, or p...
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