City Auditor Will Conduct Random Drawing to Select the First Eight Members for the Redistricting Commission

The random drawing will be conducted at 10 a.m. on Saturday, January 23 and will be broadcast and live streamed.

City Auditor Corrie Stokes will take the final step in her office’s responsibilities for the redistricting process to redraw City Council boundaries for the 2022 election. The Auditor will conduct a random drawing to select the first eight members for the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.

The random drawing will be conducted at 10 a.m. on Saturday, January 23 and will be live streamed.

On October 1, 2020, the Auditor randomly selected the three-member Applicant Review Panel which selected the 60 most qualified applicants for the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. Those members included: James Christianson, Abigael McClean, and William Cooper.

The panel finished their duties and have provided a list of the 60 most qualified applicants out of 270 applicants. The Auditor’s office will conduct a random drawing and select 8 Austin residents from the pool of 60.

Prior to the random drawing the Auditor will send the list of 60 applicants to the Mayor and City Council, each member will be allowed to strike up to one person from the list.

“I commend the excellent work of the Applicant Review Panel,” said City Auditor Corrie Stokes. “Not only did they select a list of applicants that represent the diversity of Austin, but they also provided an equal representation from each of the city’s 10 council districts.”

After the first eight are selected, those members will then conduct a process to select the remaining six. The 14-member Commission will redraw the boundaries of the 10 council districts.

Demographics:
Hispanic or Latino: 23
White: 17
Asian: 9
Black or African American: 7
American Indian or Alaska Native: 1
Other: 3

Gender
Male: 30
Female: 29
Non-binary: 1

WHEN: Random Drawing: 10 a.m., Saturday, January 23, 2021
WHO: Austin City Auditor Corrie Stokes
WHERE: The random drawing will be broadcast and live streamed (details below).
Here are the ways to access the broadcast:
ATXN is available on Spectrum Cable channel 6, Google Fiber channel 6, Grande Communications channel 6, U-Verse channel 99, and at ATXN.tv.
Facebook Live: www.facebook.com/austintexasgov

Following the drawing the City Auditor will be available for interviews. Please contact patricia.fraga@austintexas.gov, phone 512-680-1012 to coordinate an interview.

For more information view www.redistrictatx.org.

Below is the list of applicants:

First Name	Last Name	Gender	Ethnicity	District
Seema	Agarwala	Female	Asian	9
Lucas	Artusi	Male	Hispanic or Latino	9
James	Babyak	Male	Hispanic or Latino	3
John	Beal	Male	American Indian or Alaska Native	10
Bhuvanesh	Bhatt	Male	Asian	10
Joshua	Blank	Male	White	8
Isa	Boonto-Zarifis	Non-binary	Asian	4
Sara Inés	Calderón	Female	Hispanic or Latino	2
Faith	Chamas	Female	Black or African American	9
Daniel	Chupe-O'Hanlon	Male	White	8
Roger	Davis	Male	Black or African American	3
Erik	De La Rosa	Male	Hispanic or Latino	10
Erin	Dempsey	Female	Hispanic or Latino	10
David	Dixon	Male	White	6
Rachael	Druckhammer	Female	White	1
Belinda	Espinoza	Female	Hispanic or Latino	2
Camellia	Falcon	Female	Hispanic or Latino	7
Whitney	Finch	Female	White	2
Yvonne	Flores	Female	Hispanic or Latino	5
Barbara	Garza	Female	Hispanic or Latino	5
Luis	Gonzalez	Male	Hispanic or Latino	10
Eric	Grady	Male	White	10
Shannon	Halbrook	Male	White	7
Errol	Hardin	Male	Black or African American	1
Margaret	Hill	Female	White	4
Shaina	Kambo	Female	Black or African American	9
Prabhu	Kannan	Male	American Indian	5
Anika	Keswani	Female	Asian	7
Dr. Sterling	Lands	Male	Black or African American	4
Hoang	Le	Male	Asian	8
Carlos	Lopez	Male	Hispanic or Latino	3
Margaret	Lundy	Female	Asian	5
Pablo	Maceda	Male	Hispanic or Latino	5
Paul	Mannie	Male	Black or African American	1
Marisol	McDaniel	Female	Hispanic or Latino	1
John	Mckiernan-Gonzalez	Male	Hispanic or Latino	3
Kathryn	Meehan	Female	White	2
Brigham	Morris	Male	Asian	3
Elise	Nacca	Female	White	7
Karen	Nieft	Female	White	6
Timothy	Ou	Male	Asian	9
Nancy	Palma	Female	Hispanic or Latino	3
Kristine	Patrick	Female	White	4
Michelle	Perez	Female	Hispanic or Latino	5
Jesse	Plaza	Male	Hispanic or Latino	8
Patty	Prado	Female	Hispanic or Latino	4
Christina	Puentes	Female	Colombian and Chinese	7
Beverly	Rabenberg	Female	White	6
Jessica	Ramirez	Female	Hispanic or Latino	2
Kelly	Saccomanno	Female	White and Hispanic/Latino	6
Victor	Saenz	Male	Hispanic or Latino	1
Sean	Saldana	Male	Hispanic or Latino	7
Omar	Saucedo	Male	Hispanic or Latino	2
Eugene	Schneider	Male	White	6
Darius	Terrell	Male	Black or African American	8
Thomas	Thayer	Male	White	8
Rachel	Trembley	Female	White	6
Randall	Wickersham	Male	White	4
Selina	Yee	Female	Asian	1
Nuria	Zaragoza	Female	Hispanic or Latino	9

About the Redistricting Process
City of Austin voters approved Proposition 3, a City Charter amendment commonly referred to as “10-1,” in November 2012. This Charter amendment provides for the election of City Council Members from 10 geographic single-member districts, with the Mayor elected from the City at-large and began with the November 2014 election.

The amendment calls for the creation of a three-member Applicant Review Panel and a 14-member Citizens Redistricting Commission. The Commission will draw the boundaries for the City of Austin’s new Council election districts and the Panel will select the 60 most qualified applicants from the pool.

The redistricting process happens every ten years and coincides with the census.

As per the City Charter, the City Auditor is tasked with initiating and widely publicizing an application process and taking all reasonable and necessary steps to get a diverse pool of applicants.

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