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political faction. For all of these you can check yes or no and give an explanation. Number two would be, insofar as possible districts should be contiguous and compact. Number three, district lines shall, where possible, follow permanent and easily recognizable features. Four, districts shall have approximately equal resident populations as required by applicable constitutional provisions to prevent a vote dilution to the maximum degree possible. Non resident military personnel and non resident military dependents, non resident students and foreign nationals or aliens shall be excluded from the permanent resident population base used to calculate each proposed Council districtÓs population and its deviation from an ideal council district population if practicable. An ideal Council districtÓs population number shall be used to determine by what percentage each Council districtÓs population deviates from the population of an ideal Council district. The number of Council districts to which a region is entitled, shall be determined by adding together the permanent resident population according to the United States Census for the applicable United States Census year within each region and dividing that number by an ideal Council districtÓs population. There is a lot of things to take into consideration here, folks. MR. MELROSE : You know, excuse me. You know, rather than to read something none of us have had time to review, I feel uncomfortable you reading that to us when we havenÓt had a chance to review it. I would rather have us delegate to the ClerkÓs office the preparation of a form that addresses that however they choose to make that happen. I would like to see perhaps on that form a link to the original legislation, to the most recent Bill and to anything that might help inform us of the process. I donÓt want to go over the details of the form. But it is important that we have one, and there is a form to do that. On the agenda today, the key thing is setting a date. CHR. SIRACUSA : That is next. This is the process one. MR. MELROSE: Oh, this is the process one? CHR. SIRACUSA: Yes. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: Can I follow up with this? Why donÓt we ask Pat's office to form, send it to us electronically, and put it on the next agenda for us to adopt or reject the form, and we can end the discussion today. CHR. SIRACUSA: We donÓt have to ask her to create the form, because she has created it already. We can ask her to send us what she has created for feedback. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: You may want to include what Jeff was suggesting about citations to the statutes and the constitution. CHR. SIRACUSA: Patricia wants to say something. MS. NAKAMOTO: I want to give credit where credit is due. Karen Eoff created the form and Maile. They worked together and created the form, so I believe Karen has it in electronic format. 26