El Cajon council OKs district map for elections, but concerns persist
EL CAJON, Calif. – El Cajon City Council on Tuesday night gave the unanimous green light to its new district map, leaving some members of the local Arab-American community upset with the process.
“The current map is still a great choice for keeping communities of interest together in District 4 and District 2 and District 3 and District 1 when you consider also things like schools neighborhood age, geography, ethnicity,” Councilmember Steve Goble said.
But some Arab-American community members feel the map doesn’t represent them well due to changes in the community.
“We are a huge population of the city,” said Yasmeen Obeid with the Arab Community Center of San Diego. “However, most of the newer immigrant and refugee communities have moved to El Cajon in the past 10 years, which means they were not covered in the 2010 census data and were not included in the current map
