Board reviews three proposed trustee-area maps; no final vote

At a Jan. 27 special meeting, the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District board heard a presentation of three draft trustee-area boundary maps intended to create five population-balanced trustee areas but took no final action.

Ken Reynolds, the consultant who drew the draft maps, told the board the district’s total population as counted in the 2020 U.S. Census is 117,723 and that with five trustees the target population per trustee area is 23,545. "I know it's several years ago, but that is the data we're required to use to develop the equal populations," Reynolds said during his presentation.

The maps are intended to meet legal redistricting criteria, Reynolds said, and each plan shows different ways to divide the district to achieve roughly equal total populations while respecting contiguity and compactness. Reynolds displayed three options (labeled A, B and C) and summarized key statistics for each: Map A had a peak total-population deviation of about 1.06 percent; Map B about 1.7 percent; and Map C about 2.83 percent — all well within the 10 percent…