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December 11, 2021 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
2021-12-11T10:00:00-07:00
2021-12-11T12:00:00-07:00
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On Zoom
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Free
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Take notice the CCC meeting will happen December 11th at 10am via Zoom.
Topic: Sandoval Dems’ CCC MeetingTime: Dec 11, 2021 10:00 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada)Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 850 4392 7222
Passcode: 820161
You will receive another notice by the chair exactly 30 days prior to this meeting date. Voting will occur during the following week, and will close December 18th.
Ward Redistricting Information
The Executive Committee has debated these mapping rules and exact boundaries over the last few months and we are finally ready to present them to you, and submit them for a vote before the CCC. In this email you will find screenshots and descriptions of each new proposed Ward, as well as the rules and conditions the DPSC executive committee has used to produce them. I welcome questions and feedback, but I ask that you read thoroughly before submitting any questions or feedback.
To start, some counties will use predetermined boundaries like, commission districts, or house and senate districts to determine Ward boundaries. Given that Sandoval now has a way to generate its own maps, we have decided to go our own way and produce maps specifically for DPSC. This was done for the following reasons.
- Sandoval will be split by election boundaries that will not respect communities of interest within the county.
- Wards made from these boundaries can be discontiguous, large, and unwieldy.
- Wards that cross election lines draw resources from the whole ward into each contest and give stakes to all.
- Connections made across election boundaries, serve to elevate Ward leaders and position them to run for office.
- Wards that represent the distinct communities within Sandoval County, rather than election boundaries are more motivating to volunteers, easier to determine who is included within them, and provide a better base for organizing.
- DPSC can produce a structure that is made specifically for organizing a political party, rather than use one produced for other purposes.
DPNM imposes some rules on what our Wards can look like. (I should note our current maps are in violation of these rules!)
- Wards must be relatively equal in population or precinct
- Wards must be contiguous, and should strive for compactness
- Wards cannot split a precinct
- Wards should take into account infrastructure connectivity and natural boundaries
- Wards should do their best to respect communities of interest.
In addition to these the DPSC Executive Committee has settled on a number of additional constraints specific to our county.
- Rio Rancho must have a majority on the Executive Committee and of the Wards, since it accounts for 2/3rds of the County’s population
- Each of the distinct communities outside of Rio Rancho within Sandoval County deserves a Ward it can use to represent it’s interest.
- Those communities are Placitas, Corrales, Bernalillo, The Pueblos, and North County.
- Unless otherwise forced by Precinct Boundary, no residential street should define a Ward Boundary.
- Some communities deserve an exception to the population equality rule(Although not the Precinct equality rule) because they are geographically large, difficult to organize in, or are of special importance to the Party (Placitas and North County).
- Rio Rancho will take on extra population in its Wards to compensate for these exceptions.
To meet these constraints and prevent the EC from becoming too unwieldy, we settled on 13 total Wards. 5 will go to the communities outside of Rio Rancho and 8 will go to Rio Rancho itself. The following will describe each of these Wards in the order they were create