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(f) The district boundaries as established by the reapportionment commission shall be in effect for the first regularly scheduled council election following the filing of the plan and for subsequent council election. The district boundaries in effect prior to the filing of the reapportionment plan shall remain in effect during the duration of the full term of the councilmembers holding office at the time of the filing of the reapportionment plan and shall remain in effect for any election held to fill an unexpired term under Section 3-5: (g) Any registered voter may petition the proper court to compel, by mandamus or otherwise, the appropriate person or persons to perform their duty or to correct any error made in a reapportionment plan, or the court may take such other action to effectuate the purposes of this section as it may deem appropriate. Any such petition must be filed within forty-five days of the date specified for any duty or within forty-five days after the filing of a reapportionment plan. The Reapportionment Commission would be constituted on March 1, 1991, and March 1, 2001, and every ten years thereafter. The complete census information is to be reported by March 31, 1991, and there should be preliminary data for the Commission to work with before that date. I checked with census officials, and very detailed population data will be available: the census will be broken down into geographical "blocks" of 35-85 people. The Commission would be required to adopt its plan and submit it to the clerk by December 31 of the year in which it was constituted. §3-18 (f) contains the "transitional" language, and I .hope that this is reasonably clear. Your comments and suggestions would be appreciated because this was difficult to draft. The first council election under the reapportionment plan would be in 1992 . Clearly, the councilmembers who are serving out their terms until the 1992 election should continue in office after the reapportionment plan is filed, and should continue to represent the same district boundaries from which they were elected (if they were elected from districts) . When the next Reapportionment Commission's plan is filed on December 31, 2001, the councilmembers who are then serving will have almost three years remaining on their terms. They need to know whether they must remain as residents of the old districts or become residents of the new ones, and whether they represent the old district boundaries or the new ones. The intent of the language I drafted is to provide that they continue to represent the old district until the term expires and should continue to reside within the old district. Also, there is the possibility of a mid-term election to fill a vacancy under §3-5. This language is intended 799