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Our staff includes experts in civic engagement, community outreach, and will assist in <br />communicating needs for public engagement at client direction. <br />GIS and Data <br />The GIS backbone of redistricting is the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding <br />and Referencing, or TIGER, a format used by the United States Census Bureau. This will <br />serve as the geographic backbone of the redistricting project. The core TIGER/Line Files <br />and Shapef les do not include demographic data but do contain information about the <br />external boundaries of Cities, Counties and other districts, and often are the same <br />geography used in the creation of precincts. <br />Other districts, such as community colleges, water boards, and other special districts may <br />utilize other geographic layers for their external boundaries, such as parcel layers, and <br />some counties rely on parcel layers entirely for the creation of their precincts. <br />Redistricting Partners has more than a decade of experience dealing with these issues and <br />working with county registrars to process the redistricting files in both formats. <br />Once released, decennial Census redistricting data specifically tailored to each <br />jurisdiction will be utilized within this TIGER geography. This data, under new <br />California law, will also include the reallocation of incarcerated population, and be <br />supplemented with the most recent American Community Survey (ACS) dataset, <br />including estimated total population and Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) which <br />quantifies ethnic populations for the purposes of the Federal Voting Rights Act. <br />Additional datasets can be utilized in redistricting based on the client needs. For <br />example, in a city the underlying neighborhoods can be a critical geographic element, in <br />addition to transportation patterns, city amenities, and other mappable factors that help <br />define communities of interest. Redistricting Partners is adept at helping agencies utilize <br />these different pieces of geographic information within one project. <br />Meetings & Creation of Lines <br />Redistricting Partners will participate in public hearings either remotely or in -person, <br />based on the health and safety guidance at the time. In a contract with a standard five - <br />hearing schedule, at least three will be held remotely with up to two using in -person <br />staffing, if appropriate. <br />Once mapping can be conducted, Redistricting Partners will create three sets of potential <br />lines following traditional redistricting criteria including that districts be contiguous, <br />