RE-DRAWING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES: Future on The Line for Maricopa County Board of Supes

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Information on Reprecincting: Virtual Public Comment Meetings

Maricopa County sent this bulletin at 08/31/2021 04:04 PM MST

Maricopa County Supervisor, District 4 The Board of Supervisors will be considering precinct changes next month, prior to the October 1, 2021 deadline.  Over the next several months, the County will be entering a busy phase of redistricting and reprecincting.  While the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission is responsible for redrawing Congressional and Legislative district lines every 10 years after the U.S. Census is released, Maricopa County is responsible for updating voting precinct, Justice Court precinct and Board of Supervisor district boundaries (A.R.S. §§ 16-411 and 22-101).The County plans to consider changes to the boundaries in three phases (more information below). The public can view the proposed maps, provide public comment and input on the proposed changes and register for the virtual meetings  at Reprecincting.Maricopa.Vote  The Board of Supervisor Offices, the Justice Courts, and the Elections Department will  be conducting 5 virtual public comment meetings starting on September 7 to inform the public of the proposed changes.  There will be one meeting that reviews the proposed changes in detail for each Board of Supervisor District.    District 4 meeting  Thursday, September 9th from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The public may RSVP at: Reprecincting.Maricopa.Vote Virtual Public Comment Meeting Dates Three Phases of Redistricting Efforts Virtual Public Comment Meeting Dates Three Phases of Redistricting Efforts Maricopa County Reprecincting and Redistricting Plans State law requires that the Board of Supervisors establish a “convenient number” of precincts when drawing the boundaries. Each voting precinct can only have one Congressional, Legislative, Supervisorial, Community College and Special Health Care District and the lines cannot “split” a precinct between two of the same type of district. Due to delays in the release of census data and in compliance with a law passed during this last session (SB1107), redistricting lines for the Board of Supervisor districts will be considered in 2022. Phase 1 – Update Voting Precinct Lines (Before October 1st):  To meet statutory (ARS 16-411) deadlines,  the county will be updating voting precincts.  Phase 1 updates will address three situations: Ensure voting precinct lines do not cut through homes —Due to Maricopa County’s new home growth, a few of the 2018 voting precinct boundary lines cut through 15 homes or apartment complexes. The proposed map will redraws the lines around these homes. Align voting precincts to newly drawn Justice Court precincts — State law requires that only one Justice Court precinct reside within each voting precinct. The proposed map redraws the voting precinct lines to align with the proposed Justice Court precinct lines, ensuring there is only one Justice Court precinct within each voting precinct. Keep voting precincts near 5,000 voters where practicable – Maricopa County has seen tremendous population growth over the last 10 years, and there are now precincts with well over 10,000 voters assigned. Historically, keeping precincts near or below 5,000 voters helps to ensure a smooth in person voting experience. When redrawing these lines, the proposed map also took into account communities of interest (cities & towns, retirement communities, school districts, fire districts), rural vs. urban communities, physical barriers (highways, major roads, mountains, canals) and Native American communities. Phase 2 - Align Voting Precents with Information Approved by the Independent Redistricting Commission IRC (Early 2022):  The IRC is scheduled to release new congressional and state legislative boundaries in early January.  The County will update voting precincts to ensure a precinct does not overlap two or more congressional or legislative district boundaries. Phase 3 – Redraw Board of Supervisor Districts (Spring - Summer 2022):  Due to the delayed release of census data, the County will be redrawing the Board of Supervisor Districts after the IRC releases their new maps in January 2022.   During the legislative session, SB1107 moved the deadline to redraw Board of Supervisor lines from December 1, 2021 to July 1, 2022.  These changes will not go into effect until January 2024.

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Native Americans Are Making Their Own Rules For Requiring Masking Safety Precautions

Annotations: Factors that produced the successful outcomes - As of last week, there has been no evidence of Covid spread within the schools so far this school year

> The President of The Navajo Nation attributed this success in part to Covid not being politicized inside the tribe, but rather framed in a historical context as the latest monster plaguing the community that must be vanquished.

> “With any war, any battles, you got to be equipped, you got to have your armor, and you got to have your weapons,” he said. “And one of the armors that we have is the vaccine. And one of the weapons that we have is the mask and the hand sanitizers. And so we framed it in that way to where our elders can understand what we’re dealing with. And they assisted and helped us talk to our younger generation.”

Native American tribes enforce mask mandates regardless of state bans

As sovereign nations, Indigenous groups are using their authority to make their own rules to protect students and teachers

Hallie Golden

Tue 31 Aug 2021 03.40 EDT

Last modified on Tue 31 Aug 2021 14.34 EDT

A mural on the Navajo reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico. Photograph: Andrew Hay/Reuters

Insert "Native American tribes across the handful of US states with bans on school mask mandates have asserted their powers as sovereign nations to defy the orders, with some also implementing their own testing and vaccine directives for tens of thousands of students and faculty in schools on their reservations as Covid-19 cases surge.

Under the US constitution, federally recognized tribes, such as the Navajo Nation and the Cherokee Nation, have self-governing authority, and so have been able to implement mask mandates despite the statewide bans.

Jason Dropik, board president of the National Indian Education Association and the head of the Indian community school in Wisconsin, said the majority of Native communities he had heard from in states with these bans have implemented mask mandates. . .

--> State leaders in Oklahoma, Utah, Arizona, Iowa and South Carolina have implemented bans on mask mandates in schools. The education department’s civil rights enforcement arm announced on Monday that it had launched investigations into the five states to determine whether their ban on mask mandates is discriminatory against students with disabilities.

--> Leaders in Florida, Texas and Arkansas have also added bans, but due to legal challenges, they either are not being enforced or have been blocked completely.

--> The Navajo Nation, the country’s largest tribe, reaffirmed a mask mandate at the beginning of August for the 133 schools with students from preschool to 12th grade, on its reservation, covering more than 27,000 square miles in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.

The Navajo Nation president, Jonathan Nez, said students and staff have diligently followed the requirement. As of last week, there has been no evidence of Covid spread within the schools so far this school year, he said. . .

--> The Meskwaki Settlement school, which is property of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi and is the only federally recognized Native tribe in Iowa, also announced a mask requirement for students and staff.

--> And in Arizona, the Hopi Tribe and the White Mountain Apache Tribe mandated masks in schools.

 

Please Note: When public schools are off the reservations and conform to local government recommendations, the results are not so successful

1 Covid cases on the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma have risen sharply since July, with weekly case totals reaching more than 1,000 in August. Over the summer, tribal leaders made the decision to implement a mask requirement for hundreds of students in its high school and immersion school for the new school year. They also included weekly Covid testing requirements in the schools and vaccination mandates for extracurricular activities. The Cherokee Nation principal chief, Chuck Hoskin Jr, described schools as some of the safest places you can go in the area thanks to these protocols. He said there have been only two cases of Covid documented this school year.

But more than 95% of students on the reservation attend an Oklahoma public school, which, although located on the reservation, is not run by Indigenous leaders. Hoskin described the situation as frustrating and said he couldn’t recall any other time when the tribe’s school system took a different approach on health from Oklahoma public schools.

 

2 In Tahlequah, Oklahoma, which is the capital of the Cherokee Nation, the Tahlequah public schools superintendent reported last week that in the first 10 days of school, they saw over 100 cases of Covid. Later in the week, the schools opted to move all elementary sites to distance learning until 3 September due to staff shortages and rising cases for both staff and students.

 

3 Other tribes in these regions have faced similar situations, in which the schools their students attend do not fall under the jurisdiction of the tribe.

 

4 The Cheyenne and Arapaho department of education executive director, Carrie F Whitlow, explained that although the tribes take a serious stance on Covid safety protocols – there have been mask mandates for children over five years old and teachers, and testing and vaccination requirements for teachers in its two childcare centers and three head start centers – its leaders have not had a say when it comes to rules in public schools.

“We’re really trying to do our best,” she said. “However, because of our lack of authority in public school districts, they don’t really seek the advice of us from a tribe and tribal education department, as far as our students and their families and how do we protect them.”

2-HOUR MESA CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION Last Thursday - 8/26/2021 - Marking The Return of 'The Brady Bunch'

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