001[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] down [Music] testing one two three right [Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] put it away okay the anaheim union high school district board of trustees meeting of november 18 2021 is called to order at 305 pm the following members are present anne-marie randall trejo brian o'neill al javar catherine h smith and myself anna l piercy do i have a motion to adopt the agenda second i have a motion and a second all in favor aye aye aye okay opposed saying none we will now proceed to the study session okay study session will be led by carl yes good afternoon everybody um you may remember in october we had a presentation from uh
002cooperative strategies the demographer who is assisting with our trustee area adjustment uh justin rich and angela banuelos from cooperative strategies are with us this afternoon as well as michael toy from parker and covert and they're here to help us with a study session looking at some scenarios that we can pursue moving forward so i would invite justin up to the podium and we can get started good afternoon nice to be with you today afternoon instead of evening for one so i'm here as carl mentioned to recap some of the information that we shared with you last time also uh angela and our team have been doing some work on creating an additional map for you to consider so we'll talk about some of the minor changes we made that may accomplish a couple of the
003things that you all want to see and and we all want to see as well so let me get started here this is a slide that i shared with you before uh this is the after we received the validated census data we conducted your assessment of your existing trustee areas to see whether or not they were still in balance a couple of things stood out to us first of all your district grew by about 3.3 percent in that decade from 2010 to 2020. there was some population shifts as well just in terms of uh the asian population in particular increased a trend that we're seeing in many districts that we're working with and it's important to note that the deadline for for adopting a new map and making any changes should you choose to do
004that is february 28 2022. in the table down at the bottom i'm going to point to a couple of uh things here that that i mentioned last time the smallest trustee area is area one and the largest trustee area is area two the total variance this is the difference between the smallest and the largest area is nine point nine point zero percent just as a reminder our threshold and what our target is less than 10 in order to be compliant with the law on this slide we have a table showing you again based on uh 2020 census data your district's demographics and we have various racial and ethnic categories as as provided by the census here i will point to the fact that your largest protected class is the hispanic latino population at just about
00552 percent another data point that is important and relevant to this process is the citizen voting age population this is provided by the american community survey a division of the census and the citizen voting age population it's an estimate of eligible voters by wraith and race and ethnicity really what it is it's a measure of voting strength and so as we look at your current trustee areas and as we look at the the additional scenario that we've prepared for you we're going to pay close attention to how how the citizen voting age population percentages change and see if there might be any improvements in relation to the federal voting rights act and our our duty to not impair the ability of a protected class to elect the candidate of their choice so on the screen
006we have your current trustee map and that you're tonight we're going to be presenting or today i should say we're going to be presenting two options uh maintaining your your existing trusty areas as they are again you are currently within what is considered legal uh variants and in terms of population balance um but but we will compare that with the other scenario that we've created on the following slide we have the demographic breakdown of your current trustee areas again up in the right-hand corner i shared with you the variance is at 9.0 percent but then i'm going to go down to to the table below where we have both total population that's our metric for for measuring population balance and the citizen voting age population and these are listed for each of the trustee areas
007here there's a lot of data on this table so i just want to make sure you can follow along in terms of citizen voting age population what you'll notice is that for the largest protected class the hispanic latino voters you have a majority in trustee area 1 at just about 56 percent and in trustee area 2 you have a plurality which is nearly a majority at 49.0 percent so in trustee and excuse me in our scenario two that we've prepared for you all we've made some slight changes we've only made changes to trust areas one and two as you'll recall those are the smallest and largest areas and we haven't touched any of the other trustee areas for for this particular map scenario generally and and and we can dive in more to the the
008specific changes that were made but trustee area one shifted west and south and the in that's the boundary line between trustee area one and two and then just generally trustee area two shifted a little bit north and also dropped its northern boundary a little southward so this scenario was drawn in consideration first of balancing population uh and that's why the changes were made only between trustee area one and two and then i think just what's important to note here is that based on those changes we were able to create a second majority protected class district in trustee area 2 just by making those minor changes that's that's a positive development in terms of the federal voting rights act um and i think um something that we were excited to see frankly in terms of the
009population breakdown or the the demographic breakdown you'll notice that the variance up in the right-hand corner uh is now quite a bit lower at 2.1 percent and then again i'll direct you to the citizen voting age population for for the hispanic latino voters in trustee area one that's at 54.5 percent and for trustee area 2 it's right at 50 percent in terms of the timeline for the process where we're at today is the the review stage of these these initial scenarios what we plan to do next is next month gather community input through through a few different methods take that input that we receive not only from you but from the community and really synthesize that and report back to you all hold a public hearing in january take any additional feedback that we hear
010from that public hearing potentially create additional scenarios if that's necessary with the intention of adopting the final trustee area map in february following that we'll submit those maps to that map to the county to the accounting registrar voters so that it'll be implemented for the november 2022 election cycle i'll pause there for questions [Music] and look forward to hearing from you are there any questions by the board anne marie thank you for this information um in gathering this information is there a possibility of further growth just within the coming years since there was such a a big push is there do you have any knowledge of a population growth and just like recent coming years sure we know in the platinum triangle area there's going to continue to be more units constructed certainly there will
011be growth within the district that the challenge that we face is what sort of projection do we use for that and how do we apply that to the building blocks as as we create our maps which are the census blocks how much population is going to come from that what we've witnessed over the last 10 to 15 years is that there may be less population uh school-age children is is one group that comes to mind that may not be there so what we have to do is we have to comply with the law one person one vote um and so i think what you want to do today is to make sure that you're balanced based on that if there's a rationale for keeping one area slightly smaller because you know it'll grow over time
012that that might be something that is a valid consideration but you have to know that you will be coming back 10 years from now and doing this rebalancing act again so it's i i didn't completely answer your question i think it's uh our first charge is to comply with the law and be balanced uh and considering things like population growth can be taken into consideration as long as you meet that minimum threshold thank you welcome mr javar so i have a couple of questions where would be the uh or what will be the process for community input on this one now yeah we're we're working with your staff to to i think formalize those problems at minimum what we're doing now is we're putting forth a community input form uh which which will be on
013your website folks can can list that information uh i think we're we're trying to figure out whether or not we're gonna host an in-person or a virtual town hall meeting where people can show up and ask questions make suggestions and i think those are the key things i think that through the district's typical communication channels you know it's important to reach out to folks just to see if they have input on on these potential changes what is the process for if there are community members who are interested in submitting maps do we have an option to do that certainly they can submit those maps to us and we can recreate those and run the you know the statistical analysis just to see how that is and then present those back to you all so then
014mike the one of the other questions is now i i see your scenario two that you put together i already have some suggestions right so as a board member would that be my job to let you know in an open for open setting a public setting so that you make those changes and bring it up as scenario three or do we wait till the public has given that opportunity and then i come back and make those suggestions to be frank and i may uh i'll let mike talk about this as well districts have approached it in in any number of ways that you've you've described we can take that we can see what a map based on those changes may look like and if there's any additional improvement we can wait until later my my
015view is that the sooner we get that kind of input put into a map scenarios for the community to be able to see is probably best okay and when would that opportunity for me as a board member be now okay all right yes you could do that today or you could submit your comments as part of the community forum where if the community forum is not an official board meeting it's for the community so you would be presenting your map as a member of the community and then at the community meeting district staff could direct one or all of those suggested changes for board consideration i think at this point because the the the map scenarios are not right now part of an official board agenda you could submit your suggestions as part of the
016community process okay um so i'll let everybody else answer the questions while i kind of try to figure out my suggestion any other questions i have a question justin so on scenario two um just eyeballing it it looks like um sycamore junior high was sort of taken out of the natural feeder pattern into anaheim high school whereas you look at the current map that was going to be my part of that right you see so what is the rationale because it would seem to be logical to keep the feeder panel together it's it's simply a population balancing [Music] exercise and trying to do that in a way that we're able to create the second majority protected class district and so as we angela and our team went through a number of different moving census blocks
017around that was the best way for us to be able to create that second majority hispanic latino district that was that what you were thinking mr dubar uh yeah that was one of my things right because when i take a look at it i'm looking at the attendance boundaries itself so my suggestion for a third scenario would be to encompass all of the anaheim attendant high school attendance area which is depicted by the red outline so which is the current map takes it all the way up to state college but not really below or south of broadway so i want to encompass all of that so which basically means in this scenario two you will take all the way up to state college right and try to try to make that as much as possible
018incorporating the attendance area and then maybe some in terms of making sure that you uh have some kind of variance for population uh balancing right in terms of how you want to balance that out but but i i do want to emphasize um because in scenario two obviously we're having um one hispanic district which is area one and then we're making the second one fifty percent i would love to see that if possible maintained if that means tweaking a little bit here and there moving into district three i would like to see a map that depicts that and i was just in light of the fact that we have a bump in asian population uh in our district i also want to highlight that i think we do have a asian asian influence district in
019district four district four actually yeah i think not really a five has five is not a five falls into a thirty percent but i mean uh 28 right uh but yeah four um but if i don't know if that matters because i know as as a while looking at our county borders that was one of the biggest ask from especially asian communities in the area that we represent in the county they specifically asked for a asian influence district right so i think we're there with district four i don't know if that makes a difference in tweaking a little bit here and there to make that uh give that opportunity there are you saying to make them a plurality a plurality yes if that makes any if if that's i don't think that's a requirement of
020the requirement that we need to adhere to but i suspect that it's going to come out in community forums anyways so i'll reserve my comment to that but as of right now i'll just speak to the district 4 district 2 which is if you could come up with a scenario three which allows you to encompass all of anaheim high school or when i say anaheim the high school boundary line for anaheim high school incorporating sycamore junior high and then um i actually looked at some cleanup work but i think you guys have you've done it with scenario two except for that particular piece and then if need be to maintain a majority latino district for this uh d2 maybe we do a little bit of boundary adjustments with areas which are more latino influential in
021district 3 and district 2 to balance it out hopefully that made sense it it does make sense uh i will i will caution that as we move into trust area 3 potentially which is already under uh by 0.3 percent that then we will have to take some territory potentially it'll it'll be a little bit of a balancing act in order to to get that just right yeah at least maintain the 50 right so for me if we could maintain that 50 percent uh giving to latino districts yeah absolutely can i say something um i hear what you're saying mr javar but i think it gets so difficult to try to keep the right population percentage that i think the least important is attendance area because we're all you know representing all of our district and
022i know it's nice to have it all but i mean some of the other areas have divided attendance areas already and it doesn't hurt you know because we're next to each other we're all together so i think the population and the percentage of the of the minority group is more important than school attendance areas and so i i understand because i saw that i mean oh you know but yeah um you know i don't think when he goes to try to figure that out he's working with all those numbers and percentages that there comes something has to fall by the wayside and i think that attendance area might be one of those things that we kind of don't worry about as much right and i mean i i would agree to a certain extent but
023i think for me just because i've represented that area which i most likely won't be representing right after this term is but my interest is that obviously making sure that sycamore i i get the whole global global concept of everybody represents all the school district but i think for as a communities of interest that makes a big difference for a feeder school pattern to be actually included and for me i don't think even the current scenario that we have actually makes it 55 49 so that's why i didn't really think that there was much need to take that portion of the district out i know we went south but i don't think we needed to do that i think we could still maintain the same district that we have right now and just do the
024cleanup my request was going to be to actually keep the current district and bring the southern border all the way down right which kind of takes care of the boundary anyways but again i don't know how much of it will balance out with population versus uh even the uh ethnic population right sure so that's i think we can play around with it i've been having fun working with the county system so i know it's the same uh you guys use so i i would i think that there is an opportunity to do it without any issue so i will let you know that when we did that we were not able to to achieve that second okay um but we will try again based on the things that you've shared with us and uh share
025that with you yeah because i if at all so then my suggestion is if you can't do that at least keep the extension of all the way going to state college and i think you can accomplish it just based on the the community that i'm looking between east and broadway uh e street and broadway i think you can bring it all the way down in that area to accomplish what we need to accomplish and then i'm not necessarily wholly set on encompassing the entire high school attendance area so if we can go more to the uh side of state college and bring it down further from broadway i would suggest maybe i think it that next street is santana or even water street you can probably accomplish what we're looking to accomplish and not jeopardize
026the population balance because there's a good community there that could incorporate that okay and again i'm sure that there are because i've been already approached by a few folks who are looking to see if they could submit a map certainly and i think we're accomplishing what we need to accomplish but i'm sure the community has their ideas as well so okay anyone else have any comments all right seeing none thank you very much thank you very much okay public comments closed session items is there anyone that wishes to address the board of trustees regarding closed session items only at this time seeing none the board of trustees will now hold a closed session to discuss items 5.1 through 5.8 on the agenda it is now 3 30 pm and we will move to closed session