Cal State Fullerton Center to Aid County Redistricting

Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Demographic Research was chosen Wednesday to help the county redraw supervisorial districts once 2000 Census figures become available in the spring.

County staff will now meet with the center’s executive director, Bill Gayk, to negotiate a contract with the university’s research center, which will serve as a technical consultant to the county’s Redistricting Committee. The committee met for the first time Wednesday.

The center will also be responsible for developing redistricting kits that will be made available to the public this spring.

Gayk is charged with reviewing and analyzing proposals from both the committee and the public.

The kits will allow individuals and groups to redraw existing boundaries on the same format for consideration by the county supervisors. The board is scheduled to decide in August.

There are five supervisorial districts in Orange County. The boundaries are typically redrawn every decade to reflect population shifts.

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Redrawing the Lines

With redistricting just around the corner, the county’s five supervisorial districts will be changed next year when new Census data is made available. Supervisors have appointed a Redistricting Committee that will hold hearings in the spring and then make a recommendation to the board for approval. The board has an August, 2001 deadline to approve new boundaries.

Source: Orange County