Good afternoon. I'm Kevin Wilk, Mayor of the City of Walnut Creek and welcome to the Tuesday,
December 16, 2025 Special Meeting of the Walnut Creek City Council. This special meeting is called
for the purpose of interviewing Commission candidates and potential action on appointment
and holding a closed session related to the following conference with legal counsel
anticipated litigation and conference with legal counsel existing litigation.
Under California law, public comments and special meetings are limited as subjects
on the agenda only. Therefore, public comments will be received at this time
for the items previously mentioned. After an opportunity for public comment,
the City Council will conduct the commission interview and hold closed session.
Commission interviews will not be video recorded but can be viewed in person.
And at this time, I'd like to open public communications.
Yes, for the items and closed session district elections, and would you please state your name? Oh, I'm sorry
I'm Scott Rafferty and
You know, it's it's been a long time coming
Tom, but I think it's been six years since he said he was gonna sue Walnut Creek and I explained you had to
Move here and changes genetics, but that seemed to have put that off
I mean, I think I've said this to some of you privately.
We live in the most integrated part of probably the State
of California between Martinez and here.
There is a little more disparity than there used to be
in the Latino population in between their precincts
that are 3% and there are some that are 11%.
So it's possible that there might be a claim.
But this one is based on 30 year old data,
30 year old ballot questions.
And it breaks my heart
because I think it creates a lot of cynicism.
And so frankly though, keep in mind there are alternatives.
There's possibly rank choice voting.
And districts, most cities want a quick size
across the country are in districts.
That's a little bit different here in California, but not much.
So it's not a complete disaster.
I know where you live, and obviously all of you do.
I'm not going to talk about that right now.
You can decide whether it would be in the city's interest
to be more representative.
That was a big issue in Martinez,
and it has nothing to do with race.
It's just, in that case, it.
So I think it's an abuse of the law.
I'm unhappy about it.
I'm sorry, and I will help you in any way I can.
I'll do whatever analysis you'd like, and I can-I didn't mention, I think privately
to your attorney, there's-I think you should let the public speak on who the demographer's
going to be, and there's a couple that are not-would be controversial.
Thank you, Mr. Rafferty.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you for coming.
All right.
So we're going to close public communications, and we will now move upstairs to interview
commission candidates and action appointments.