HomeMy WebLinkAbout2018-06-26; City Council; Resolution 2018-112RESOLUTION NO. 2018-112
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD,
CALIFORNIA, APPROVING REGULATIONS FOR CANDIDATES FOR ELECTIVE
OFFICE PERTAINING TO CANDIDATES' STATEMENTS SUBMITTED TO THE
VOTERS AT GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN THE CITY OF
CARLSBAD ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2018.
Exhibit 3
WHEREAS, Section 13307 of the Elections Code of the State of California provides that the
governing body of any local agency adopt regulations pertaining to materials prepared by any
candidate for a municipal election, including costs of the candidates' statements;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, as
follows:
1. That the above recitations are true and correct.
2. GENERAL PROVISIONS. That pursuant to Section 13307 of the Elections Code of the
State of California, each candidate for elective office to be voted for at the General
Municipal Election to be held in the City of Carlsbad on November 6, 2018, may prepare
a candidate's statement on an appropriate form provided by the Office of the City Clerk.
The statement may include the name, age and occupation of the candidate and a brief
description of no more than two hundred {200) words of the candidate's education and
qualifications expressed by the candidate herself or himself. The statement shall not
include any party affiliation of the candidate, nor membership or activity in partisan
political organizations. The statement shall be filed in typewritten form in the Office of
the City Clerk at the time the candidate's nomination papers are filed. The statement
may be withdrawn, but not changed, during the period for filing nomination papers and
until 5:00 p.m. of the next working day after the close of the nomination period.
3. FOREIGN LANGUAGE POLICY
A. Pursuant to the Federal Voting Rights Act, each candidate's statement will be
translated into all languages required by the Registrar of Voters Office of the
County of San Diego. The County is required to translate candidate's statements
into the following languages: Spanish, Vietnamese, Filipino and Chinese.
B. All translations shall be provided by professionally-certified translators.
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C. The Registrar of Voters will print and mail separate sample ballots and
candidates' statements in Spanish, Vietnamese, Filipino and Chinese to only
those voters who are in the County voter file as having requested a sample ballot
in a particular language. The Registrar of Voters will make the sample ballots
and candidates' statements in the required languages available at all polling
places, on the County's website and in the Election Official's office.
4. ADDITIONAL MATERIALS. No candidate will be permitted to include additional materials
in the sample ballot package.
5. PAYMENT. The City Clerk Services Manager shall estimate the total cost of printing,
handling, translating as specified, and mailing the candidates' statements filed pursuant
to the Elections Code, including costs incurred as a result of complying with the Federal
Voting Rights Act and require each candidate filing a statement to pay in advance his or
her estimated pro rata share of $1,100 -$1,400 as a condition of having his or her
statement included in the voter's pamphlet. The estimated amount is just an
approximation of the actual cost that varies from one election to another election and
may be significantly more or less than the estimate, depending on the actual number of
candidates filing statements .and the number of registered voters in the city.
Accordingly, the City Clerk Services Manager is not bound by the estimate and may, on
a pro rata basis, bill the candidate for additional actual expense or refund any excess
paid depending on the final actual cost.
6. Each candidate shall pay a $25.00 fee at the time the nomination papers are filed in the
City Clerk's Office. In lieu ofthe $25.00 filing fee, candidates may process a petition-in-
lieu by acquiring four signatures for each $1.00 of the filing fee. A total of 100 signatures
of registered voters in the City shall replace the $25.00 filing fee. Petitions-in-lieu forms
must be submitted to the City Clerk's Office no later than 5:00 p.m., on July 27, 2018.
7. That the City Clerk's Office shall provide each candidate, or the candidate's
representative, a copy ofthis resolution at the time nominating petitions are issued.
8. That this Resolution shall apply only to the election to be held on November 6, 2018.
9. The City Clerk Services Manager is hereby directed to file a certified copy of this
resolution with the Registrar of Voters of the County of San Diego.
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PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of
Carlsbad on the 26th day of June, 2018, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
M. Hall, K. Blackburn, M. Schumacher, C. Schumacher, M. Packard.
None.
None. M:J!UL
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/Jv<--BARBARA ENGLESON, City Clerk
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