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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-06-18; City Council; Resolution 2024-131RESOLUTION NO. 2024-131 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 AND SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS TO BE HELD IN THE CITY OF CARLSBAD ON TUESDAY, NOV. 5, 2024 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 and special municipal elections to be held in the City of Carlsbad on Nov. 5, 2024, 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. The stat ement 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 The statement may be withdrawn, but not changed, during the period for filing nomination papers and until 5 p.m. of the next working day after the close of the nomination period. 3.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. B. All translations shall be provided by professionally certified translators. 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 or designee 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 the candidate's estimated pro rata share of $1,100 as a condition of having the candidate's statement included in the voter information guide. 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 or designee 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 of this Resolution at the time nominating petitions are issued. 7. This Resolution shall apply only to the general and special municipal elections to be held on Nov. 5, 2024. 8. The City Clerk or designee shall certify to the passage and adoption of this resolution. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Carlsbad on the 18th day of June, 2024, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: NAYS: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: BLACKBURN, BHAT-PATEL, ACOSTA, BURKHOLDER, LUNA. NONE. NONE. NONE.