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Regular City Council Meeting <br /> Monday,August 7,2023 <br /> Page 10 <br /> Mayor Roe asked if there was any legal reason for the Council to not do that. <br /> Mr. Trudgeon explained he would have to look at his notes, but he thought the <br /> challenge is when there is a primary. <br /> Mayor Roe explained it would be the same dates as for an even year election. <br /> Mr. Trudgeon indicated at one point, staff was looking at some combination where <br /> a person could start putting up signs before the registration period ended for filing <br /> in the first place. <br /> Mayor Roe asked if in fact,the forty-six days in State law is related to the election <br /> day, and the City is putting in a standard related to early voting. <br /> Mr. Trudgeon explained they were putting it eighteen days before that the start of <br /> early voting. He thought that got it into the end of May, early June, if he <br /> remembered right. <br /> Mayor Roe thought the filing period should be the same for primaries in odd years <br /> because the primary date is set to be in August. <br /> Councilmember Groff noted the person would not need to put up their signs at that <br /> time either. <br /> Mayor Roe thought if the State law is forty-six days before the actual election day, <br /> conceivably, if there are eighteen days of early voting prior to that, a person could <br /> continue to have the sign law be forty-six days before the election day because that <br /> is going to be at least a good chunk of time before the early voting starts. <br /> Councilmember Schroeder indicated that is the main thing, if the person is able to <br /> get their signs up before early voting starts. <br /> Mr. Trudgeon recapped the date the signs could go up before early voting occurs. <br /> Mayor Roe reviewed the reasoning for the time frame he was proposing for election <br /> signs to be posted. <br /> Mr. Trudgeon recapped the proposed changes the City Council requested. <br /> Groff moved, Schroeder seconded, enactment of Ordinance No. entitled, "An <br /> Ordinance Amending Title 10 Section 1010.09 to Allow Display of Political Signs <br /> Prior to In-Person Voting" including the amendments discussed, and changing the <br /> time to follow forty-six days before the primary and forty-six days before the <br /> general election. <br />