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Margaret Driscoll From: Bill Malinen Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:34 PM To: Dan Roe; *RVCouncil Cc: Chris Miller; Carolyn Curti Subject: RE: special election timing from Monday's meeting Mayor & Councilmembers: In response to Dan's question, we have included a timeline description in the packet information. However, we've added the specific dates associated with the timeline, given some base assumptions regarding ordinance amendment, etc.. Here's the information: Special Election Timeline May 12 - Ordinance change May 20 - Ordinance effective June 9 - Council calls a Special Election June 10 to 24 - Filing for office - open for two weeks July 15* - Ballot printing completed Before July 25** - Appoint election judges July 18 to August 18 Absentee voting August 19 - Special Election September 9 - Primary Election *Ramsey County says to allow three weeks for set up, County approval, attorney approvals and printing of ballots. City must use county contracted printing company. **It would take a minimum of 30 days to recruit, ,schedule and train judges. City must appoint a minimum of 25 days before election, so need 55 days to schedule. Additional note - If City has to change a voting location, the City must provide a 90 days notice to the state. It will take at least two weeks to confirm whether all current voting locations are available on August 19. -----Original Message----- From: dan.roe@comcast.net [mailto:dan.roe@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:53 AM To: Bill Malinen Cc: Chris Miller Subject: special election timing from Monday's meeting Bill, I seem to recall that in 2004 there was a report on the timing of a special election that included several milestones and the associated dates. I can't say that that type of detail was not in our recent information from Carolyn, but if not, I think it would be 1