Minnesota Session Laws - 1992, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1992 

                        CHAPTER 362-S.F.No. 1622 
           An act relating to the Minneapolis park and recreation 
          board; providing for two members appointed by the 
          Minneapolis park and recreation board on the 
          Minneapolis reapportionment commission; establishing 
          standards for park board redistricting. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [PARK AND RECREATION BOARD DISTRICTS.] 
    Notwithstanding chapter 1, section 3, of the home rule 
charter of the city of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis park and 
recreation board may appoint two members to serve on the 
Minneapolis reapportionment commission to replace the two 
members of the commission appointed by the majority and minority 
caucuses of the city council for the purpose of determining the 
reapportionment of Minneapolis park and recreation districts.  
    The two members appointed by the park and recreation board 
shall participate with the other appointed members of the 
reapportionment commission to determine the reapportionment of 
park board districts.  Park board commission appointees shall 
not sit in considering the reapportionment of city council ward 
boundaries.  City council appointees shall not sit in 
considering the reapportionment of park district boundaries.  
The reapportionment commission may adopt necessary procedures to 
ensure full participation by park and recreation board 
appointees in its process.  
    Sec. 2.  [STANDARDS.] 
    Within the time specified in chapter 1, section 3, and 
chapter 16, section 1, of the home rule charter of the city of 
Minneapolis, the reapportionment commission shall set the 
boundaries of the park districts in accordance with the 
following standards:  
   (1) The ideal population for each district shall be 
determined by dividing the total population of the city by six.  
In no case shall any district, when readjusted, have a 
population more than five percent over or under the ideal 
population.  
   (2) Each district shall consist of contiguous compact 
territory not more than twice as long as it is wide.  The 
existence of a lake within a district shall not be contrary to 
this provision.  Whenever possible, district boundary lines 
shall follow the center line of streets, avenues, alleys and 
boulevards and as nearly as practicable, shall run due east and 
west or north and south.  
    (3) To the extent possible, each newly drawn district shall 
retain the same numerical designation as the previously existing 
district from which the newly drawn district received the 
largest portion of its population.  
      (4) The districts must not dilute the voting strength of 
racial or language minority populations.  Where a concentration 
of a racial or language minority makes it possible, the 
districts must increase the probability that members of the 
minority will be elected. 
     (5) The districts should attempt to preserve communities of 
interest where that can be done in compliance with the preceding 
standards. 
    (6) Population shall be determined by use of the official 
population, as stated by census tracts and blocks in the 
official United States Census.  Whenever it is necessary to 
modify census data in fixing a district boundary, the 
reapportionment commission may compute the population of any 
part by use of other pertinent data or may have a special 
enumeration made of any block or blocks using the standards of 
the United States Census.  If the population of any block or 
blocks is so determined, the reapportionment commission may 
assume that the remainder of the census tract has the remaining 
population shown by the census.  In every such case, the 
determination of the reapportionment commission as to population 
shall be conclusive, unless clearly contrary to the census.  
    Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day after compliance 
with Minnesota Statutes, section 645.021, subdivision 3, by a 
majority of the Minneapolis park and recreation board. 
    Presented to the governor January 16, 1992 
    Signed by the governor January 17, 1992, 2:38 p.m.