A bill for an ordinance amending Article II of Chapter 15 of the Revised Municipal Code for purposes of approving a new redistricting plan for the eleven council districts of the City and County of Denver for the municipal election on April 4, 2023, and for any general or special council election held thereafter. Describes the district boundaries depicted on Map A. Councilmember CdeBaca approved direct filing this item on 3-17-22.
12 nays. Zero Ies Council Bill 20 2-328 has failed. Madam Secretary, please put the next item up on our screens. Councilmember Clerk, will you please put Bill three, three, two on the floor for publication? Yes, council president. I move that council bill three three to be ordered published. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. Resolution three, three, two is on the floor. This is map a. The floor is open for comments on all three items. Resolutions to 99, which is map D three, three, two, map A and or 300 map e. After comments, council will vote on each item separately. The floor will not open again for comments on these three items once voting begins. Councilmember Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. I am calling out Bill three, three, two. As we have had the process of redistricting and as the chair of the redistricting committee, we went through the process of debating the maps and then having the opportunity to vote on all the maps. It is rare that you will see City Council convene as a committee of the whole. In my recollection, the last time we convened as a committee of the whole is when this body I was not on the body was debating marijuana policy for the entire city. And so for the the fact that we are convened as a whole committee of the whole and last week two of my colleagues were not here and they were not present. So I decided to call out all three maps to have them be voted on separately so that we could figure out which maps would be on final hearing next Tuesday. The map that is currently up 0332 failed in committee and map 3332 passed and 300 passed with the majority votes. So I would ask that we please vote down three, three, two as it did also fail and committee. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Councilmember Sandoval, Councilmember CdeBaca. Thank you. I recognize what happened in our last redistricting committee, and I recognize that this was voted down and fully do not expect support on this. But what I wanted to make sure was done is that it went on record as having had a legal review and being determined to be a legal map that was not gerrymandering and in fact was the only map attempting to capture a majority minority district in District nine. We did not achieve that in any of the other maps. And so I just wanted to make sure that history recalls on the record that this map was introduced and it was voted down. And we did forfeit that majority minority district at a time where minorities in the city are being displaced rapidly. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Secretary. Roll call on Council Bill 20 to dash three. Three to map a. Sustainable. No. Sawyer. No. Torres. No. Black. No. CdeBaca. I. Clark. No. Flynn. No. Herndon. No. Hines. No. No. Can each. No. Ortega? No. Madam President. No. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. When I 12 nays. One I Council Bill 20 2-33, two has failed. Madam Secretary, please put the next item on our screens. Council Member Clark, will you please put Bill to 99 on the floor for publication?