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Commission's job is to start moving these district boundaries, census block by census <br /> block, to get these populations of each council district closer to that 22,232. <br /> Now, it's never going to be perfect. There's various reason of geography, and not <br /> splitting communities. I think you'll be hearing about some of those guidelines later in <br /> the meeting today. But the number that you're looking for, the ideal is 22,232. And one <br /> of the other numbers then, is to look at the highest and the lowest. So this is where if we <br /> look at Council 5 as the highest at 11.22, and Council 7 as the lowest at minus 8.16, that <br /> is a total deviation, the difference between the two, of 19.38 percent. So a number you'll <br /> hear is below 10 percent. That's what courts have upheld as a reasonable deviation. <br /> Ideally, you'd make it even below that. And that's where as you're moving in the <br /> application, you can monitor, as you move census blocks and assign them to different <br /> council districts, you can immediately see the change in that district population and the <br /> deviation percent, and you can kind of keep track then of the difference between the <br /> highest and the smallest. <br /> So that's a quick overview of the census data that is being used, and has been loaded. The <br /> online application is available for use. I'll stop the video now and take any questions. <br /> Thank you. <br /> KOSSOW: Are there any questions from the Commissioners? Mr. Hustace. <br /> HUSTACE: Thank you, Chair. You talked about just the very beginning of your <br /> presentation there—how current are the drawings of the census blocks? <br /> JONES: Those are the 2020 census blocks. <br /> HUSTACE: So my concern is, I've looked up the application a little bit, and I've seen <br /> some—and I know you mentioned that there are cases that they do not—they don't really <br /> conform to streets, and some boundaries, but I have come across some census blocks that <br /> cross over roads and are going through different areas. And I've seen a couple on the map <br /> already so I do have concerns about the blocks. <br /> JONES: Well those are the blocks from the Census Bureau and I agree. Sometimes, you <br /> wonder why did they do that. Sometimes there seems to be blocks that just run down the <br /> middle of the street. There's other blocks that yeah particularly in the mauka areas, you <br /> get some strangely shaped census blocks. I will tell you that the council district <br /> boundaries are based on those 2020 census blocks, even though they were drawn based <br /> on the 2010 census blocks. Now, 99.9 percent of the time, it's the same lines, but I did <br /> notice a few areas `cause I'm the one who did create and did this assignment of the 2020 <br /> blocks to each of the council districts. There was like half a dozen places where a census <br /> block split a boundary. But it wasn't very much and it was in very low population areas. <br /> In fact, I think they were zero population areas. It was up in the real the areas that don't <br /> have much population. So that is the shape, the areas, the census blocks, the official ones <br /> that they release the counts by, that's what we have to use. I don't know if I've answered <br /> your question, but plesae, ask more if I haven't. <br /> 12 <br />