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Reminder: Community meeting Wednesday on Palmdale election changes, new districts

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An interactive district map is available at at the City of Palmdale's website for residents to see which district they live in. [Click here to access it.]
An interactive district map is available at at the City of Palmdale’s website for residents to see which district they live in. [Click here to access it.]
PALMDALE – The city of Palmdale on Wednesday will host the first of four community meetings designed to inform residents about the new voting districts and the upcoming changes to the city’s election dates.

The first meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, at the Palmdale Oasis Recreation Center, located at 3850 E. Avenue S. This meeting is in District 3/Central.

The rest of the schedule is as follows:

  • Saturday, Aug. 15, at 11 a.m. – Buena Vista Elementary School, 37005 Hillcrest Drive– (District 4 – East)
  • Wednesday, Aug. 26, at 7 p.m. – Marie Kerr Recreation Center, 2723 Rancho Vista Blvd. – (District 2 – West)
  • Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 7 p.m. – Palmdale City Council Chamber, 38350 Sierra Highway, Suite B, (District 1 – South). This will be part of the regularly scheduled City Council meeting.

Residents are encouraged to attend one or more of the meetings. Maps of the new districts and updated election information will be made available at each meeting.

Pursuant to Ordinance No. 1470, Palmdale will conduct future general municipal elections in November of even-numbered years beginning with the November 2016 election. There will be no general municipal election for the seats of Mayor or City Council in Palmdale in November 2015.

The ordinance also calls for election of the four City Council seats to be held by districts. Four districts have been established and there will be one City Council seat to represent each district. Voters will be able to vote only for a candidate from their district. The election for the Mayor’s seat will remain at-large.

An interactive district map is available at www.cityofpalmdale.org for residents to see which district they live in. [Access it here.]

For more information, contact the City Clerk’s office at 661-267-5151, Monday through Thursday between 7:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.

[Information via press release from the City of Palmdale.]

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Filed Under: Palmdale, Politics

2 comments for "Reminder: Community meeting Wednesday on Palmdale election changes, new districts"

  1. Those voting districts look very suspicious considering a vast portion of the population resides in future districts 1and 3

    • If your complaint is accurate it would be suspicious, but I don’t think your assessment of population is correct. If there is any difference in populations I’d guess it is pretty small, but that’s just based on having done a whole lot of driving around because of the business I was in. Do you have any references for the populations by district?

      By the way, if 1 and 3 ARE slightly higher I suspect that would be okay, based on 2 and 4 being the ones where population growth is expected. It won’t make huge disparities acceptable, but you want the district lines to hold up for a while before shifts force them to be redrawn.