The City shall be divided into two wards. Each ward shall be composed of contiguous territory as regular and compact in form as practical, depending upon the geography of the area involved and shall
be as nearly equal in population as possible. That portion of the City lying north of a line running east and west as established by ordinance shall be termed Ward Number 1, and that portion of the City lying south of said line shall be termed Ward Number 2. The Council may at any time reapportion the wards using a statistically verifiable means to estimate population so as to make the wards as nearly equal in population as practicable, and to adopt such change by ordinance.