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

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LUL Okay. Thank you. d. Timeline and challenges NAKAMOTO: Hi. Pat Nakamoto. I tried to put together a draft timeline, worst case scenario. We heard from Mr. Rosenbrock who provided us some information on when we were expecting the Census data. Which was in July, but that has been moved back and I think I heard him say maybe September I" or September 30''. So, I tried to put together a timeline, but I didn't have the information. I think what I would need is for the Commission to decide how they want to conduct their public hearings. There's, you know, the Commission is supposed to have a draft plan taken out to the 9 Council districts and then they would also need to take out the final plan to the west side of the island and the east side of the island. So, I think the Commission would need to decide, because we're doing it virtually, whether you want to have a public hearing for each of the 9 districts, or if you want to combine them, or if you want to have one public hearing. So, those are things that you would need to take into consideration before I could put down a more accurate timeline. Not having that information, I did take the liberty of just trying to get an idea, worst case scenario. I was looking at trying to get the final plan presented to the County Clerk at least, at the latest by December 27. I think if we get the data on September 30'' and we have a really, really tight window that we work in, we may be able to get it done by December 27. And, that is of course, we would need to take also into consideration, how long the vendor would take to extract the data that Mr. Rosenbrock talked about. The non-resident, military, and students. If the vendor takes a week, then we could probably move the December 27 up one week. Which would be maybe December 20'h to turn in the final plan to the County Clerk. But, then again, that's going to be determined on how we proceed with the public hearings. Okay, any questions? LUL Just in terms of the timeline, is there like a sense of what kinds of trainings we need beforehand so that we could at least get that in place? And, in terms of the public hearings, in some ways it depends on how much time we have. NAKAMOTO: Right, yeah. LUL So, it's hard to decide now. NAKAMOTO: As far as the training, the software the Commission will be using for the 2021 redistricting, will probably be identical to what was used in 2011 or very, very similar. It's a very user friendly software. We've used it, and so has the public. You know, in the past, in the 2011 redistricting, the public was able to submit plans and as we went around the island, there were several individuals who did submit a plan, and they were not trained on the software. They went in and they just used the software. LUL I'm not sure I could do that myself. (Laughter.) M