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T 6 0.0 Neal beets, City Manager <br />Carolyn Curti, Communications peciali st 1, � <br />Date: March 5, 2003 <br />Re: Primary Election Task Force ]dotes <br />The Pn'mary Election Task Force met on February 27. The meeting notice was osted in City <br />y <br />Hall, on the City's web page and on Cable Channel 16. News releases abort the meetin g were <br />sent to all the local niedi a. About 100 people expressed interest in the meetin g and 6 people <br />P P <br />attended the meeting. A list of attendees is attached. <br />I nude the following information available to everyone who attended the meeting. The <br />information included: <br />1. 2003 Ramsey County Election Calendar <br />2. Minnesota State Statute 412,02, and 205.065 <br />I Village of Roseville Ordinance 702 establishing grirnary election (August 1 973 <br />4. City of Roseville ordinance 1158 amending primary election language arch 1 995 <br />F <br />5. City of Roseville Ordinance 1 264 establishing even year City elections June 2002) <br />6. Email from League of M1 Cities - comments about primary election <br />7. LM -- list of cities with Population, 25,000 to 45,000 and whether they hold p rirnaries <br />8. Letter from Ramsey County commenting on cost of ballots <br />9. News Article discussing value of Primary <br />10. Email from constituent that specifically addressed to Task Force members <br />The meeting began at T-00 and went until 8:20 p.m. we started out with about 20 to 25 <br />minutes of discussion about cost of a regular and primary election voter turnout value of <br />votmg, impact of going to even year elections, etc. Following the initial discussion } I asked <br />attendees to provide reasons to keep the primary and reasons to eliminate the P ring and <br />� <br />other issues. I recorded the information on flipcharts. <br />Everyone was given the opportunity to spew, and I gent back several times to ask for input in <br />each area. what follows are the comments of the person attending the February 27 Primary <br />Electron Task Force, materials described above and ernaiIs that I have received on the issue. <br />Other issues are discussed m' emails and letters that I received. I did not include those <br />comments since they were not presented at the meeting (attached)_ n, <br />Page 'l <br />