City: Apps don't reflect Austin
Women and minorities were underrepresented in initial applications for the city's first Citizens Redistricting Commission—a group that will draw boundaries of 10 geographic districts for the election of City Council members—and Austin City Auditor Kenneth Mory said his office did not anticipate the low response.
"We are not getting the number of applications that we expected," he said in a news release. "In addition, the applications we have received do not reflect the diversity of the City of Austin."
The city stopped collecting applications Feb. 22. As of Feb. 11, the city had collected 183 applications for the CRC, including 41 from Southwest Austin residents.
About 77 percent of CRC applicants were white, while 13.7 percent were Hispanic and 6.6 percent were African-American. About 70 percent were male.
