As part of the decennial redistricting process, each Ward Council Member is responsible for creating a ward-wide “subcommittee” to propose re-drawing Single Member District (SMD) and Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) boundaries within the Ward based on new census data.\u00a0 In general, each SMD should be home to between 1900 and 2100 residents, though variations are acceptable for certain reasons, such as maintaining neighborhood cohesiveness or adhering to natural boundaries.\u00a0 Ward 2 Council Member Jack Evans’ office has for several months invited any interested Ward 2 residents to join the Ward 2 Subcommittee for 2011 redistricting.\u00a0 The kickoff meeting of the Ward 2 Subcommittee was Wednesday, July 13th at the Wilson Building.<\/p>\n
The Ward 2 Subcommittee is further broken down into “task forces” for each ANC in Ward 2.\u00a0 Each Task Force is responsible for providing a recommendation for the re-drawing of SMD lines — and, if warranted, recommendations on any changes to ANC external boundaries.\u00a0 The Task Force for the Dupont Circle ANC (2B) currently includes all 9 ANC 2B Commissioners (Will Stephens, Mike Feldstein, Mike Silverstein, Phil Carney, Kevin O’Connor, Bob Meehan, Jack Jacobson, Victor Wexler, Ramon Estrada), along with the 2B resident community representatives that volunteered to Jack Evans’ office (Debbie Hanrahan<\/span>Schreiber, Ed Grandis, and Phyllis Klein).<\/p>\n The 2B Task Force had an initial meeting on Tuesday, July 26th at the Dupont Resource Center to set in motion a plan for submitting a proposal for 2B political boundaries with community input, prior to the Council’s final deadline of Oct. 1st.\u00a0 After discussing the process and being briefed by Ward 2 Subcommittee Chair Tim Birch of the Georgetown ANC, the Task Force came up with the following plan:<\/p>\n The 2B Task Force will meet Tuesday, Aug. 9th to draw up an initial proposal for SMD boundaries.\u00a0 This initial draft will be posted on this News\/Blog page and elsewhere, and the 2B Task Force will solicit comments for just over three weeks.\u00a0 There will be a community forum on Wednesday, August 31st at 7:30pm (location TBA)<\/strong><\/span> to further discuss the plan.\u00a0 Please save the date for this important discussion!<\/strong><\/span> The 2B Task Force will thereafter meet again to make changes based on the comments received and the community forum.\u00a0 Subsequent meetings\/discussions will be announced by the end of the month.\u00a0 The goal is for the 2B Task Force to create a final 2B boundary plan that can be endorsed by the ANC and community by mid-September.<\/p>\n For more information on redistricting — including census data, maps, and relevant rules — please follow this link to redistricting information from the D.C. Council: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/dc.gov\/redistricting\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Note<\/span>: If you are interested in joining the Ward 2 Subcommittee — whether you live in the Dupont area or not — please contact Andrew Huff at Jack Evans’ office (ahuff@dccouncil.us<\/a>) and Ward 2 Subcommittee Chair Tom Birch (bircht@earthlink.net<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As part of the decennial redistricting process, each Ward Council Member is responsible for creating a ward-wide “subcommittee” to propose re-drawing Single Member District (SMD) and Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) boundaries within the Ward based on new census data.\u00a0 In general, each SMD should be home to between 1900 and 2100 residents, though variations are … Continue reading “NEWS: Dupont Circle political redistricting task force sets plan for crafting a 2B proposal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,31,32,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dupontcircleanc.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}