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Bakersfield City Council officially adopts map 5B
Wednesday night the Bakersfield City Council officially adopted map 5B (Unity map).
The map had been submitted by the Jakara movement in hopes of keeping the Punjabi and other communities together as opposed to other maps that would separate them.
Bakersfield City Council Moves forward with map 5B
Wednesday night the Bakersfield City Council voted to adopt map 5B submitted by the Jakara Movement.
Bakersfield community members express which map should move forward for redistricting
Every ten years after the census data is collected the process of redistricting starts. Redistricting includes the City Council Wards to ensure that each council member is covering an equal number of constituents.
Expert witness in recent Kern redistricting case to speak about the importance of voting
Cal State Bakersfield’s campus historian Albert Camarillo will speak next month about voting rights and his role as an expert witness in the recent Luna V.
KHSD Board approves Plan 3 to move forward in Redistricting process
Dean Welliver, News Report
On Monday evening the Kern High School District Board of Trustees unanimously voted to present the Plan 3 trustee area redistricting map to the Kern County Committee on School District Organization this Thursday May 24.
Gerald Cantu explains the LCAP process and discusses KHSD redistricting on In the 661
Gerald Cantu the Educational Policy Director of the Dolores Huerta Foundation talks about the school budget process known as the Local Control Funding Formula/Local Control Accountability Plan and the Kern High School District’s decision to redistrict it’s trustee areas in light of the ruling that found the Kern County Board of Supervisors guilty of gerrymandering Latinos after a second majority district.
KHSD Trustee Jeff Flores discusses redistricting and concerns of his district on In the 661
Jeff Flores talks about the Kern High School District’s decision to redistrict and the district’s possible solutions to the overcrowding at Arvin High School.