§ 700.1. Elections – City Council Districts.

Members of the City Council, excepting the Mayor, shall be elected by district.

For the election to be held in November 2022 and each election thereafter, there shall be 6 (six) districts as such districts are designated on that certain map adopted by judgment of the Superior Court dated July 24, 2018, as set forth in Resolution No. 18-8585 of the City Council, as the boundaries of such districts shall be amended through a redistricting process following each decennial United States Census.

Council District elections shall be conducted as follows:

(a) Each District shall be represented by one (1) Council Member.

• (b) In the election to be held in November 2022 and in each Council District election held thereafter the Council District elections shall be conducted as follows:

  1. the voters of District 2 shall nominate and elect one (1) Council Member for a four-year term; and

  2. the voters of District 3 shall nominate and elect one (1) Council Member for a four-year term.

• (c) In the election to be held in November 2024 and in each Council District election held thereafter the Council District elections shall be conducted as follows:

  1. the voters of District 1 shall nominate and elect one (1) Council Member for a four-year term;

  2. the voters of District 4 shall nominate and elect one (1) Council Member for a four-year term; and

  3. the voters of District 5 shall nominate and elect one (1) Council Member for a four-year term.

  4. the voters of District 6 shall nominate and elect one (1) Council Member for a four-year term.

(Added by electors at election held November 7, 1972, approved by Senate Concurrent Resolution (1973 Stats., Res. Ch. 10); Amended and renumbered from section 700.2 by electors at an election held March 7, 2000, Charter Chapter 11 of the State Statutes of 2000 ; Amended by electors at an election held June 7, 2022, Charter Chapter 17 of the State Statutes of 2023 )