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C'ITV OF SAN BER. ARDINO - REQUEST OR COUNCIL ACTION
From: Shauna Clark, City Clerk
Subject: Proposed initiative
on Section 187
Dept: City Clerk's Office
Date: January 4, 1989
Synopsis of Previous Council action:
None
Recommended motion:
That the staff report dated January 4, 1990, from the City Clerk
regarding the lack of signatures to qualify the initiative on
proposed Section 187 be received and filed.
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Contact person:
Shauna Clark
Phone:
384-5002
Supporting data attached:
Staff Report
Ward:
FUNDING REQUIREMENTS:
Amount:
Source: (Acct. No.)
(Acct. DescriPtion)
Finance:
Council Notes:
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C I T Y 0 F SAN B ERN A R DIN 0
REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION
STAFF REPORT
On November 22, 1989, the Firefighters Local and the Police
Benefit Association submitted a petition to the City Clerk
bearing 15,412 signatures.
The City Clerk I s Office followed a procedure in state law
which allows us to check a random sampling of 771 signatures
to validate, disqualify or continue checking signatures.
Under state law, the random sampling must show a validation
rate of 110% to qualify the petition. Below 90%, the petition
is disqualified; between 90% and 110%, every signature is
checked. The qualification rate for this petition was 80%.
In other words, after a check of 771 signatures randomly
selected by a computer, we found 405 signatures (52.59%)
valid. This percentage, multiplied by the total number of
signatures submitted, totals 8,105 valid signatures. The
petition needed 10,102 signatures to qualify.
In the case of this petition, the question was not the
validity of the signatures, but rather the residency of the
signers. Many signatures came from unincorporated areas near
the city and from residents of the neighboring City of
Highland who thought they lived in San Bernardino.
In order to get on the ballot, the Firefighers and Police
associations will have to submit a new petition.