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RESOLUTION NO. 2019-219
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 SPECIAL ELECTION
TO BE HELD IN THE CITY OF CARLSBAD ON TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020.
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 recitation is true and correct.
2. GENERAL PROVISIONS. That pursuant to Section 13307 of the Elections Code of the State of
California, each candidate for nonpartisan elective office to be voted for at the Special Election
to be held in the City of Carlsbad on March 3, 2020, 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 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 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may be withdrawn, but not changed, during the period for filing nomination papers and until 5:00
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.
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
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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 $900 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. 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.
7. That this Resolution shall apply only to the election to be held on March 3, 2020.
8. 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.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a Special Meeting of the City Council of the City of Carlsbad on the
8th day of Nov., 2019, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:
NAYS:
ABSENT:
Hall, Bhat-Patel, Blackburn, Schumacher.
None.
None.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO ) ss.
I, Tamara R. McMinn, Deputy City Clerk of the City of Carlsbad, County of San Diego,
State of California, hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy with the original
RESOLUTION NO. 2019-219 -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 SPECIAL
ELECTION TO BE HELD IN THE CITY OF CARLSBAD ON TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2020 with the
original now on file in the Office of the City Clerk of the City of Carlsbad; that the same
contains a full, true and correct transcript therefrom and of the whole thereof.
Witness my hand and the seal of said City of Carlsbad, this 13TH day of Nov., 2019.
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