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MEMORANDUM 6 5 June 1,10, 2,008 6(31 Mayor Klausing, Councilmembers, Staff' 6) From: Dian Roe Subject: Proposed Special Election Ordinance, Changes 13 " I 1 5 Following on the discussions during the recent appointment process to fill the vacancy that resulted from the passing of Tom Kough, I have developed the attached draft ordinance to 11 than our special. election provisions. The primary purpose of the draft ordinance is to broaden the use of special elections to cover any sc type of,vacancy, rather than the current limitation to cases where a councilmember assumes an 81 incompatible office, i The second purpose is to specify the tiny in of when -a special election would occur. ,34 5 As to the tirning 'issue, I have expressed previously, and I believe, that we should not have 2 36 elections overlapping with. each other. If we can hold a special, election prior to the beginning of 8 1317 thie process of a scheduled election, that is preferable to me. However, if that cannot be the case, then we should allow the scheduled election to serve its purpose (either as a special election,, as sq outlined in state statute, or as a, regular election, as is occurring this year). 9 9 Based on the 'information provided previously by staff, it appears that using a special election for ,,2 vacancies that occur, at least 10 weeks prior to the start of filing for the regular election would 93� allow time for the special election to be held prior to then, 1 /.1 91, For that reason, I have proposed the 10 week time frame in my draft ordinance. As, you can see from the various tinge line examples that I have included with the draft ordtnance, most of the time, the special election would be held within. that 10 week titre frame, and any - 3 , ono appointee would only serve for around months,. 10 C? 1 10 1 It should be noted that, had this ordinance been in effect at the time Councilmember .ough died, 02 we would most likely have been holding a special election later this month. 1, CY3 .F: 4, 1 welcome council discussion, and look- forward to passing a change which achieves the 05 objective of allowing the voters to fill council vacancies whenever possible — and indeed in most 0 .11 C; cases,.