Glendora To Go Back To Drawing Board For District Boundaries

GLENDORA, CA — The city will soon have to redraw its district boundaries again despite establishing them less than five years ago.

As part of the process the City Council will hold a hearing during its regular meeting Tuesday evening to provide a brief overview of the process. Members of the public will also have the opportunity to provide their own suggestions on what factors officials should consider when redrawing district boundaries, according to a staff report.

The hearing is the first at least four hearings city officials plan to hold regarding the process.

The City Council will meet at 7 p.m. and will be streamed on the city's website. Residents who wish to submit a public comment during the hearing can do so by visiting cityofglendora.org/zoom.

The city established its district boundaries using data from the 2010 federal census in October 2017 following the decision to transition from at-large elections to district-based races. But, since state election laws required district boundaries be made using the most recent census data, officials will have to go back to the drawing board using information from the 2020 federal census.

However, officials said it won’t be until late-September or early-October until that data becomes available as COVID-19 severely impacted the government’s ability conduct the census. Because the data will come late, the city won’t be able to redraw district lines in time for elections scheduled to take place in March 2022, according to the staff report.