HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-06-21; City Council; Resolution 2022-155RESOLUTION NO. 2022-155
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 THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN THE CITY
OF CARLSBAD ON TUESDAY, NOV. 8, 2022
Exhibit 3
WHEREAS, California Elections Code Section 13307 authorizes the City Council to adopt
regulations pertaining to materials prepared by any candidate for a nonpartisan elective office in
the city, including costs of the candidates' statements.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, as
follows:
1.The above recitation is true and correct.
2.GENERAL PROVISIONS. Each candidate for nonpartisan elective office to be voted for
at the general municipal election to be held in the City of Carlsbad on Nov. 8, 2022,
may prepare a candidate's statement on an appropriate form provided by the City
Clerk's Office. The statement may include the name, age and occupation of the
candidate and a brief description of no more than 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 City Clerk's Office 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The statement may be withdrawn, but not changed, during the period for filing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 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 San Diego County Registrar of
Voters. The Registrar of Voters is required to translate candidate's
statements into the following languages: Spanish, Vietnamese, Filipino and
Chinese.
8.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 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. 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.
7.This Resolution shall apply only to the general municipal election to be held on
Nov. 8, 2022.
8.The City Clerk Services Manager shall certify to the passage and adoption of this
resolution.
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PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of
Carlsbad on the 21st day of June, 2022, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:
NAYS:
ABSENT:
Blackburn, Bhat-Patel, Acosta, Norby.
Hall.
None.
� ,rv FAVIOLA MEDINA, City Clerk Services Manager
(SEAL}
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