HomeMy WebLinkAbout2014-06-24; City Council; Resolution 2014-1461 RESOLUTION NO. 2014-146
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2 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING REGULATIONS
FOR CANDIDATES FOR ELECTIVE OFFICE PERTAINING
4 TO CANDIDATES' STATEMENTS SUBMITTED TO THE
VOTERS AT GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE
5 HELD IN THE CITY OF CARLSBAD ON TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 4, 2014.
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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.
15 SECTION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS. That pursuant to Section 13307 of the
16 Elections Code of the State of California, each candidate for elective office to be voted
17 for at the General Municipal Election to be held in the City of Carlsbad on November
4, 2014, 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
25 in typewritten form in the Office of the City Clerk at the time the candidate's
26 nomination papers are filed. The statement may be withdrawn, but not changed,
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during the period for filing nomination papers and until 5:30 p.m. of the next working
day after the close of the nomination period.
SECTION 2. 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.
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10 B. All translations shall be provided by professionally-certified translators
11 C. The Registrar of Voters will print and mail separate sample ballots and
12 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.
SECTION 3. ADDITIONAL MATERIALS. No candidate will be permitted to
include additional materials in the sample ballot package.
20 SECTION 4. PAYMENT. The Assistant City Clerk shall estimate the total cost of
21 printing, handling, translating as specified, and mailing the candidates' statements
22 filed pursuant to the Elections Code, including costs incurred as a result of complying
23 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
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election and may be significantly more or less than the estimate, depending on the
2 actual number of candidates filing statements and the number of registered voters in
the city. Accordingly, the Assistant City Clerk 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.
SECTION 5. Each candidate shall pay a $25.00 fee at the time the nomination
papers are filed in the City Clerk's Office. In lieu of the $25.00 filing fee, candidates
g 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
11 filing fee. Petitions-in-lieu forms will be available on June 24, 2014 and must be
12 submitted to the City Clerk's Office no later than 5:00 p.m., on July 24, 2014
SECTION 6. That 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.
SECTION 7. That this resolution shall apply only to the election to be held on
November 4, 2014.
SECTION 8. The Assistant City Clerk is hereby directed to file a certified copy of
20 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 ofthe City Council ofthe City
of Carlsbad on the 24th day of June 2014, by the following vote to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
Council Members Hall, Packard, Wood, Schumacher, Blackburn.
None.
ABSENT: None.
MATT HALL; Mayor
ATTEST:
BARBARA ENQLESDN, City Clerk