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To: Meal Beets, City Manager From: Carolyn Curti, Communications specialist C cuycl, V--% CL4"_�-" Date: March 5, 2003 Ref Primary Election Task Force Dotes The Primary Election Task Force met on February 27. The meeting notice was posted in City Hall, on the City "s web page and on Cable Channel 16. News releases about the meeting were sent to all the local media. About 100 people expressed interest in the meeting and 65 people attended the meeting. A list of attendees is attached. I made the following information available to everyone who attended the meeting, The information included, 2003 Ramsey County Election Calendar 2. Minnesota State Statute 412.02, and 205.065 3. Village of Roseville Ordinance 702 establishing primary election (August 1973) 4. City of Roseville Ordinance 115 8 amending primary election language (March 1 995 ) 5. City of Roseville Ordinance 1 264 establishing even year City elections (June 2002) 6. Email from League of NTN Cities — conmYnents about primary election 7. LMC — list of cities with population 25 }000 to 45,000 and whether they hold pfimaries 8. Fetter- from Ramsey County commenting on cost of ballots 9. News Article discussing value of Primary 10. Email from constituent that specifically addressed to Task Force members The meeting began at 7 *00 and gent until 8:20 p.m. We started out with about 20 to 25 minutes of discussion about cost of a regular and primary election, voter turnout* value of voting, impact of going to even year elections, etc. Following the initial discussion, I asked attendees to provide reasons to keep the pr'ary and reasons to eliminate the primary and other- issues. I recorded the information on flipcharts. Everyone was given the opportunity to speak, and I went rack several tunes to ask for input in each area... what follows are the conurtents of the persons attending the February 27 Primary Electron Task Force, materials described above and ernails that I have received on the issue. Other issues arc discussed in emails and Ietters that I received. I did not include those comments since they were not presented at the meeting (attached). r b gage I Date: 03/31/03 j� Item: III. B. Presentations Prima Election Administration Department/Communications To: Meal Beets, City Manager From: Carolyn Curti, Communications specialist C cuycl, V--% CL4"_�-" Date: March 5, 2003 Ref Primary Election Task Force Dotes The Primary Election Task Force met on February 27. The meeting notice was posted in City Hall, on the City "s web page and on Cable Channel 16. News releases about the meeting were sent to all the local media. About 100 people expressed interest in the meeting and 65 people attended the meeting. A list of attendees is attached. I made the following information available to everyone who attended the meeting, The information included, 2003 Ramsey County Election Calendar 2. Minnesota State Statute 412.02, and 205.065 3. Village of Roseville Ordinance 702 establishing primary election (August 1973) 4. City of Roseville Ordinance 115 8 amending primary election language (March 1 995 ) 5. City of Roseville Ordinance 1 264 establishing even year City elections (June 2002) 6. Email from League of NTN Cities — conmYnents about primary election 7. LMC — list of cities with population 25 }000 to 45,000 and whether they hold pfimaries 8. Fetter- from Ramsey County commenting on cost of ballots 9. News Article discussing value of Primary 10. Email from constituent that specifically addressed to Task Force members The meeting began at 7 *00 and gent until 8:20 p.m. We started out with about 20 to 25 minutes of discussion about cost of a regular and primary election, voter turnout* value of voting, impact of going to even year elections, etc. Following the initial discussion, I asked attendees to provide reasons to keep the pr'ary and reasons to eliminate the primary and other- issues. I recorded the information on flipcharts. Everyone was given the opportunity to speak, and I went rack several tunes to ask for input in each area... what follows are the conurtents of the persons attending the February 27 Primary Electron Task Force, materials described above and ernails that I have received on the issue. Other issues arc discussed in emails and Ietters that I received. I did not include those comments since they were not presented at the meeting (attached). r b gage I