Revised Supervisor Districts
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors have settled on a new district map after a long and controversial process. Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors voted to advance a map with re-drawn district boundaries and a formal adoption is slated for December 14th. The big change on the new map, is adding Roseland and Moorland, which are predominantly Latino neighborhoods, into a district with most of the rest of Santa Rosa. Most of Rohnert Park is included in District 3. The current map, which will likely be the final map, did not follow the suggestions of the 19-member Advisory Redistricting Committee, made up of people with diverse backgrounds tasked with creating an equitable map. Nine women of color on the commission published a scathing letter accusing the Board of tossing their work aside, and possibly violating the Voting Rights Act with their new map.