The City Council has appointed nine of the 13 members of the citizens’ advisory committee on redistricting.

Each council member and the mayor selected one committee member. City Clerk Shirley Concolino announced the appointees at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Their names are listed below.

U.S. Census data helps shape the redistricting process, which occurs each decade. When new lines are drawn, each district should have the same number of people, according to city staff.

In a Jan. 18 report, city staffers wrote that the following elements will be assessed in the redistricting process: topography, geography, cohesiveness, continuity, “integrity and compactness of territory,” community of interests, existing neighborhoods and community boundaries.

The other four advisory committee members will be selected through a different process. The city’s Personnel and Public Employees committee, composed of four council members, will evaluate 34 applicants for the remaining positions on March 15.

Later, the full City Council will vote to approve the four committee members, according to Scot Mende, the city’s new growth manager.

The council is expected to decide on the four members in the next few weeks. The citizens’ committee is scheduled to start meeting next month, according to the schedule for the redistricting process. 

The committee will make suggestions to the council on the redistricting process, and the council will make the final decisions on restructuring the districts. The City Council is mandated by the city charter to finish the process by September.

Political communications consultant Steve Maviglio will return to the realm of city politics as Mayor Kevin Johnson’s appointee on the redistricting committee.

Maviglio is a former volunteer spokesman and campaign manager for Johnson. The Sacramento Bee reported earlier this week that Maviglio is the new communications representative for Californians for Health Care and Retirement Security, a group representing government employee unions. 

In an interview Thursday, Maviglio said he would focus on neighborhoods in the redistricting process. “My philosophy is that neighborhoods should be kept together as much as possible,” he said.

Steve Hansen, who was selected by Councilman Jay Schenirer, said some of the current districts don’t make sense because they break up Tahoe Park, Valley Hi and the urban core of the city. “Tahoe Park is split in half,” he said, between Districts 5 and 6.

Hansen, who serves as the vice chair of the Downtown Sacramento Partnership’s board, lives in District 1 but was selected by the District 5 council member. Appointees for the committee were not required to live in the same district as the council members who selected them.

Here is the list of appointees to the citizen’s advisory committee on redistricting:

Mayor Kevin Johnson: Steve Maviglio, political communications consultant

Angelique Ashby, District 1: Roman Porter, executive director of the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission

Sandy Sheedy, District 2: Bill Camp, executive secretary of the Sacramento Central Labor Council

Steve Cohn, District 3: Cyril Shah, commissioner, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency

Rob Fong, District 4: Julius Cherry, former fire chief for the city of Sacramento

Jay Schenirer, District 5: Steve Hansen, vice chair of the Downtown Sacramento Partnership

Kevin McCarty, District 6: Bill Motmans, president of the Tahoe Park Neighborhood Association

Darrell Fong, District 7: Bernard Bowler, former board chair of the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce

Bonnie Pannell, District 8: Sandra Frye-Lucas, faculty member of Sacramento Unified School District Florin Technology Educational Center. Ph.d. from UC Davis’ School of Education. 

Kathleen Haley is a staff reporter for The Sacramento Press.