2021-03-01 Redistricting Commission minutes (1st Session)

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KOSSOW: Ms. Lui, we'll work with Elections to get that for you. LUL Okay. NAKAMOTO: Yes, we will be able to print out and send it to you or provide you a link where you can go in and look at the maps. LUL Beautiful. Thank you. YOSHINA: David, this is Dwayne again. What data sets do you have in the system right now? Do you have like 2011? ROSENBROCK: Yeah, but I don't think we have the software for 2011. I know we have the data, but the software is kind of expensive so as soon as we're done, I think we've kept it up for 6 months, and then we let it go. It's very expensive. YOSHINA: Okay, so there is no way for us to toy with the system right now with additional, or newer data. It may not be up to date but, like for example, do you have the interim data for —between 2011 and 2020? ROSENBROCK: Well, we looked at trying to use the Community Survey data because we don't have the block data, but so much of that is based on folks returning the information to the Census. So, each one of those long forms that's got everything about how much money you make, to you know —so a lot of people don't do it. They just don't do it and then it really makes the data not compatible for doing reapportionment. YOSHINA: Okay, so short answer is the data is kind of dated. ROSENBROCK: Well, it's dated and it's incomplete. YOSHINA: Okay. ROSENBROCK: Now I think we do have the data from 2011. So, if you wanted to get the software, you could start looking at it from that point of view. I think you'll want to do that anyway when you create your plan. You'll want to bring up that 2011 data and then look where you, you know, can make adjustments to the existing districts. You know, based on the new populations. YOSHINA: Okay. Excuse me, but do you have newer, more current data than 2011 or...? Because they have updates, right? ROSENBROCK: Yeah, but the updates are basically updates to the metadata, not the, necessarily the population count. YOSHINA: Okay. Thank you. 21