SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CA (MPG) - The Board of Supervisors, at its Dec. 7 meeting, voted to adopt the Final Supervisorial District Map.

The Final Map is a result of the Board of Supervisors’ direction on revisions to the earlier draft maps presented at its Nov. 2, 16 and 17 Board meetings, as well as public input.

Following the Nov. 17 Board meeting, at which the Board approved the Final Draft Map, Sacramento County’s Geographic Information System (GIS) team worked with National Demographics Corporation (NDC), the County’s redistricting consultant, to proof the district lines suggested by the Board. They also compared it to the district lines, Census blocks and legal boundary descriptions for all jurisdictions in Sacramento County, including cities. 

NDC and the County’s GIS team made minor adjustments to the Final Draft Map to address miscoding of census blocks, to avoid sliver precincts and new ballot types, and to adhere to the Board’s recommendations on Nov. 16-17. Geographic descriptions of each supervisorial district boundary are also available. 

County residents can utilize the interactive map titled, “Final Supervisorial District Map” to view the new lines and see where they reside within them.

Additionally, the County offers several district lookup tools and online maps. Because those tools use different source data, the County is coordinating the update to the tools simultaneously in order to provide consistency among the tools. The update will be completed in January 2022.

The public submitted more than 200 written comments containing suggestions for redistricting and supervisorial boundary lines. The public also submitted their own maps for consideration, either hand-drawn or drawn using the mapping tools available. 

Every ten years, following the Census count, the resulting census data is used to geographically define electoral districts, at all levels of government, through a process called redistricting. Redistricting ensures that each of the electoral district boundaries have about the same number of people and comply with the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. 

Visit Sacramento County’s redistricting webpage for information about redistricting, including the redistricting process, written public testimony, meetings and workshops, public comment, and draft and final maps. 

Sacramento County Supervisors are Phil Serna, District 1; Patrick Kennedy, District 2; Rich Desmond, District 3; Sue Frost, District 4; and Don Nottoli, District 5.