August 29th Update

As directed in the Sacramento City Charter, the City of Sacramento must reapportion City Council District boundaries every ten years, following the U.S. Census.  Council District boundaries must be redrawn so that the population in Sacramento's 8 Council Districts is as equal as possible.  Since there are many possible configurations for these new districts, the City Council invited the citizens of Sacramento to participate in the process of deciding where the new boundaries should be by holding public meetings and by making a special CD available that citizens could use to draw their own proposed boundaries and submit them to the City Council.

The 2000 Census reported a total City population of 407,018 people; therefore, equal population distribution in the 2001 redistricting would result in 50,877 people per district.  The 2001 Redistricting outreach and solicitation resulted in a total of 13 Redistricting Maps submitted by interested community groups and individuals.  Staff categorized the 13 maps into different themes and requested specific council direction on modifications to a preferred theme. At it's June 19 meeting, Council provided an opportunity for map proponents and other interested community members to explain proposal preferences and discuss concepts and proposed boundary changes.

At the council meeting on August 28th, the City Council passed an ordinance officially adopting the final new City Council District boundaries, which will take effect in 30 days from that date.

Here are four versions of the final map (all in PDF format). Left click to display them in your browser or right-click them to save them to your hard disk:

In addition, here is the Statistical Summary Report Table that shows the population and racial composition of the new districts.

If you have the free redistricting software available on your computer, you can download the final Council District boundary map file for that program by right-clicking this link and saving the ".rcb" file on your hard disk.  After you have saved the attachment to your hard drive, open the Redistricting Application and load the saved file into the application. You accomplish this with the "Load From Disk" button in the application. (If you don't have the Redistricting software, you can DOWNLOAD it, by following the same right-click and save process as above. To install it, use "Start" and "Run" functions from your Windows taskbar to run the "install.exe" file that you saved on your hard disk.)

At the council meeting on August 9th the City Council agreed to begin discussion with Staff Recommendation Map D (PDF file).They then voted on intent motions to adjust boundaries. It was agreed that discussion would resume at the August 14th council meeting at 2 PM. The map that was discussed was called "Staff D with Passed Motions" (PDF file).

For additional information on the history of the current redistricting process (including previous proposed maps and population statistics tables), please see:

For more information, please call Kirsten Garrard at (916) 264-2986
or send her an e-mail message at kgarrard@cityofsacramento.org