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RESOLUTION No. 92-26
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO PROPOSING AN
AMENDMENT OF THE CHARTER OF SAID CITY CHANGING THE DATES OF THE
CITY PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTIONS AND THE DATES ON WHICH CITY
OFFICERS ASSUME OFFICE COMMENCING IN 1995
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY
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SECTION 1. Recitals.
(a)
In accordance with the Constitution of the State of
California, the City of San Bernardino, a municipal corporation,
has adopted a Charter.
(b) The Mayor and Common Council of the City of San
Bernardino desire to submit to the electors the Charter Amendment
set forth in this resolution.
SECTION 2. Submittal to Electors. The following proposed
14 amendment to the Charter of the City of San Bernardino is
15 submitted to the qualified electors of the City of San Bernardino
16 for their approval or rejection at the consolidated municipal
17 election to be held on Tuesday, June 2, 1992.
18 PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO.
19 It is proposed that Sections 10, 10-A, 13 and 14 of the Charter of
20 the City of San Bernardino be amended to read as follows:
21 Section 10. Primary and General Election.
22 A Primary election shall be held in said
23 Ci ty on the first Tuesday after the first
24 Monday in March of each odd numbered year,
25 for the nomination of candidates to be
26 elected at the ensuing general election,
27 and a general election shall be held in
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said City on the first Tuesday in May of
each odd numbered year, for the election of
City Officers. Beginning with the primary
election in 1995, and thereafter a primary
election shall be held in said City on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November in each odd numbered year for the
nomination of candidates to be elected at
the ensuing general election, and a general
election shall be held in said City on the
first Tuesday in February of the following
even numbered year for the election of City
Officers. Said election shall be conducted
in the manner provided for by general law;
provided, however, that the Mayor and
Common Council shall have power, by
ordinance, to provide for the manner of
hOlding such election.
Section 10-A. Election to office. Any
candidate for a judicial, school or any
City office who at a primary election shall
receive votes on a majority of all the
ballots cast for candidates for the office
for which such candidate seeks nomination,
shall be elected to such office. Where two
or more candidates are to be elected to a
given office and a greater number of
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candidates receive a majority than the
number to be elected, those candidates
shall be elected who secure the highest
votes of those receiving such majority, and
equal in number to the number to be
elected.
Any officer elected shall hold
office until his successor is elected and
qualifies.
Section 13. Officers elected. There shall
be elected at the general election in 1998,
and every fourth year thereafter three
members of the Common Council, one each
from the First, Second and Fourth Wards,
who shall have been qualified electors and
residents of their respective wards for a
period of at least thirty (30) consecutive
days next preceding the date of filing of
their nomination papers for the office and
who shall be elected by the qualified
electors of their respective wards for
terms of four years commencing on the first
Monday in March next succeeding their
elections.
Section 14. Officers and terms.
There
shall be elected at its general election in
1996 and every fourth year thereafter, four
members of the Common Council, one each
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from the Third, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh
Wards, who shall have been qualified
electors and residents of their respective
wards for at least thirty (30) consecutive
days next preceding the date of filing of
their nomination papers for the office and
who shall be elected by the qualified
electors of their respective wards, a City
Attorney, City Clerk and City Treasurer
elected at large who shall hold office for
terms of four years from and after the
first Monday in March and next succeeding
their elections.
There shall be elected at the general
election in 1998 and every fourth year
thereafter, a Mayor who shall be elected at
large for a term of four years commencing
on the
first Monday in March next
succeeding such election.
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AMENDMENT OF THE CHARTER OF SAID CITY CHANGING THE DATES OF THE
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly
adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San
adjourned
Bernardino at an re!lular
meeting thereof, held on the 23rd
day of
Januarv
, 1992, by the following vote, to wit:
Council Members: AYES NAYS ABSTAIN ABSENT
ESTRADA x
REILLY x
HERNANDEZ x
MAUDSLEY x
MINOR x
POPE-LUDLAM x
MILLER x
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The foregoing
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Approved as to
form and legal content:
*This Charter Amendment lIould have no
cost saving until 1995. In this
budget year, putting this amendment on
a special election is an unnecessary
expenditure of public funds.
JAMES F. PENMAN,
City Attorney
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