What Do You Support?

The Weldon Cooper Center and its UVA partners briefed City Council on June 20, 2023 in their afternoon informal session on the community engagement efforts regarding the Election District structure for the City of Virginia Beach. A decision must be made prior to the 2024 election cycle about whether to keep the current 10 districts + mayor or go to a 7 district+3 super districts + mayor.  Here is the PowerPoint from the presentation. Also here are links to the Briefing to the City Council that explains the powerpoint slides and also you can read the complete report: Full Report. The briefing describes the methodology for the probability based survey which provided the raw data which was analyzed in the report. They also conveyed the themes that were heard from the non-probability based open source survey. The comments from the public sessions and the online survey that were submitted to Speakup.gov through June 14, 2023 were downloaded and provided directly to City Council members.  The City Council members will address this question in their August retreat and a decision on whether they will also put a referendum on the November ballot will be made. You can contact city council members with your view: citycouncil@vbgov.com