Rocklin Unified board adopts trustee-area map 117 and sequencing, sends resolution to county
May 28, 2024 | Rocklin Unified, School Districts, California
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The Rocklin Unified School District Board of Education voted 5-0 on May 28 to adopt trustee-area map 117 and a related election sequencing plan, then approved a resolution sending the adopted map and sequencing to the county committee for review.
Dr. Justin Levit of National Demographics Corporation presented the consultant analysis and described tradeoffs among maps the board considered. He told trustees that map 116 produced about a 12% population deviation—above the 10% guideline the district was aiming to stay under—and that map 117 reduced that deviation to about 7.5%, making it “a legally viable alternative.”
Board members focused on keeping neighborhoods intact while balancing population. Trustees discussed specific neighborhood lines — including Whitney Oaks, Twin Oaks Elementary attendance area, the Cobblestone neighborhood and Pebble Beach Road — and reviewed options that followed either streets or Pleasant Grove Creek as boundaries. Several trustees said map 117 best balanced population deviation and community cohesion.
Trustee Julie Huff moved to adopt map 117 with sequencing that places areas 1 and 3 on the 2024 ballot and areas 2, 4 and 5 on the 2026 ballot; Trustee Michelle Sutherland seconded. The board approved the motion on a roll-call vote with all members recorded as voting yes. Georgia Navar, the district’s executive assistant to the superintendent, called the roll.
Following the map vote, the board considered a formal resolution memorializing the district’s earlier decision to shift to trustee-area elections and documenting the public hearings and draft-map publications. The board voted to adopt Resolution No. 23441 (as entered on the record) to adopt map option 117 with the election sequencing identified therein and to transmit that resolution to the county committee.
The board opened and closed the public hearing required under Elections Code §100010; no public-comment cards were submitted. The meeting concluded with the board directing staff to forward the adopted map and sequencing to the county committee for the next step in the statutory process.
What happens next: the county committee will review the district’s adopted map and sequencing as part of the statutory approval process; the district record shows the board met all required public-hearing and publication timelines described in the resolution.
Dr. Justin Levit of National Demographics Corporation presented the consultant analysis and described tradeoffs among maps the board considered. He told trustees that map 116 produced about a 12% population deviation—above the 10% guideline the district was aiming to stay under—and that map 117 reduced that deviation to about 7.5%, making it “a legally viable alternative.”
Board members focused on keeping neighborhoods intact while balancing population. Trustees discussed specific neighborhood lines — including Whitney Oaks, Twin Oaks Elementary attendance area, the Cobblestone neighborhood and Pebble Beach Road — and reviewed options that followed either streets or Pleasant Grove Creek as boundaries. Several trustees said map 117 best balanced population deviation and community cohesion.
Trustee Julie Huff moved to adopt map 117 with sequencing that places areas 1 and 3 on the 2024 ballot and areas 2, 4 and 5 on the 2026 ballot; Trustee Michelle Sutherland seconded. The board approved the motion on a roll-call vote with all members recorded as voting yes. Georgia Navar, the district’s executive assistant to the superintendent, called the roll.
Following the map vote, the board considered a formal resolution memorializing the district’s earlier decision to shift to trustee-area elections and documenting the public hearings and draft-map publications. The board voted to adopt Resolution No. 23441 (as entered on the record) to adopt map option 117 with the election sequencing identified therein and to transmit that resolution to the county committee.
The board opened and closed the public hearing required under Elections Code §100010; no public-comment cards were submitted. The meeting concluded with the board directing staff to forward the adopted map and sequencing to the county committee for the next step in the statutory process.
What happens next: the county committee will review the district’s adopted map and sequencing as part of the statutory approval process; the district record shows the board met all required public-hearing and publication timelines described in the resolution.
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