A FILIPINA was recently appointed by San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee as part of the nine-member body of the City’s Redistricting Task Force to determine how the supervisorial district lines should be redrawn.
Entrepreneur and community leader Marily Mondejar joins other appointees—San Francisco Unified School District Deputy Superintendent Myong Leigh and Sonia Melara, Executive Director of Rally Family Visitation Services of St. Francis Memorial Hospital.
“The Census has shown the population of San Francisco grown, and changes to our voting districts must adequately reflect our communities and our City,” said Mayor Lee in a released press release. “Leigh, Melara and Mondejar all will bring valuable community involvement and experience to the Redistricting Task Force that will have lasting impacts on our residents and our City.”
Every 10 years, the Federal Government conducts a census to determine the number of individuals living in the US. After the census is completed, the City Charter requires the Director of Elections to determine whether the existing supervisorial districts meet the legal requirements established by federal, state and local law. If the existing supervisorial districts no longer comply with these legal requirements, the Charter requires the Board of Supervisors to convene the Redistricting Task Force to redraw the supervisorial district lines. The process of redrawing the is known as redistricting.
Mondejar is the President of the Filipina Women’s Network, a nonprofit professional association for women of Filipino ancestry living in the United States. A senior business leader with 25 years of global experience as an entrepreneur and strategist, she has been an advisor to Fortune 500 organizations including Cemex, Siebel (Oracle) and Webex (Cisco). She has advised executives on leadership and career derailment issues, and consulted on corporate image strategies, merger implications, scenario planning, and how to maximize performance, through work with executive teams, alliance-building, and inter-cultural communications.
She also serves on nonprofit boards and commissions including the Friends of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women, Leadership California, Sweatfree Procurement Advisory Group and the Justice and Courage Oversight Panel. Mondejar earned both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in organization development and leadership from New College of California, graduate coursework in public relations at Golden Gate University. She has also completed doctoral course work in organizational psychology at Alliant International University.
The total San Francisco population reported in the 2010 Census is 805,235. This data indicates that the City’s population added 28,502 residents, a 3.7 percent increase from the 2000 Census count of 776,733. The reported increase, however, was not uniform amongst the 11 supervisorial districts.
The Director of Elections made this determination that the districts must be redrawn. The Board of Supervisors convened the Redistricting Task Force, consisting of nine members. The Mayor, the Board of Supervisors and the Elections Commission each appoint three members.
Mondejar, Melara and Leigh, along with the six other members of the task force will work with City staff and outside consultants to determine how the supervisorial district lines should be redrawn so that the districts comply with the legal requirements. As part of this process, the Redistricting Task Force holds multiple community hearings to receive input from the people of San Francisco. Throughout this process and based on community input, the task force will make several changes to the existing supervisorial lines. The task force must present a final plan to the Board of Supervisors in April 2012.
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