HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Resolution 4694RESOLUTION NO. 4694
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL REQUESTING THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS OF MARIN COUNTY TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSOLIDATION
OF A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION WITH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
DIRECT PRIMARY ELECTION TO BE HELD ON JUNE 4, 1974.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of San Rafael on March 4, 1974
adopted Resolution No. 4683 calling a special municipal election to be held
in the City of San Rafael on Tuesday, June 4, 1974, at which election will be
submitted to the qualified electors of the City the following measures, to wit:
MEASURE ( ):
$3,500 MAXIMUM FOR THE PURCHASE Shall Section 3.1 of Article
OF SUPPLIES, MATERIALS, MACHINERY XIII of the Charter of the City
OR EQUIPMENT NOT LET BY BID) of San Rafael be amended to pro-
vide that the City of San Rafael
shall have the power to award contracts without going to bid for the
purchase of supplies, materials, machinery and equipment amounting
to $3,500 or less. The text of said amendment is set forth in Sec-
tion A of Resolution No. 4675 passed by the City Council of the
City of San Rafael on Tuesday, February 19, 1974, and is now on file
in the office of the City Clerk.
MEASURE ( ):
GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE Shall Section 1 of Article IV of
HELD ON TUESDAY AFTER THE FIRST the Charter of the City of San
MONDAY IN MARCH) Rafael be amended to provide that
the general municipal election
held on each odd numbered year shall be on the Tuesday after the first
Monday in March rather than on the third Tuesday in April. The text
of said amendment is set forth in Section B of Resolution No. 4675
passed by the City Council of the City of San Rafael on Tuesday,
February 19, 1974, and is now on file in the office of the City Clerk.
MEASURE ( ):
CITY ATTORNEY TO BE APPOINTIVE Shall the Charter of the City of
RATHER THAN ELECTIVE) San Rafael be amended effective
at midnight the day prior to the
next general municipal election in 1975, so as to make the office of
city attorney appointive rather than elective. The -text of said amend-
ment is set forth in Section C of Resolution No. 4675 passed by the
City Council of the City of San Rafael on Tuesday, February 19, 1974,
and is now on file in the office of the City Clerk.
AND WHEREAS, a State of California Direct Primary Election will be
held on Tuesday, June 4, 1974 and it is the desire of the City Council that said
special municipal election be consolidated with said Direct Primary Election;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of San
Rafael, as follows:
Section 1. The Board of Supervisors of Marin County is hereby
requested to order the consolidation of said special municipal election with
said Direct Primary Election to be held on Tuesday, June 4, 1974 insofar as the
City is concerned, and to further provide that within the territory affected by
said order of consolidation, to with the City, the election precincts, polling
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places and voting booths shall in every case be the same and there shall be only
one set of election officers in each of said precincts, and to further provide
that said measures hereinabove set forth shall be set forth in the form of ballot
to be used at said election insofar as the same is held within the City. The
Board of Supervisors of Marin County is further requested to order the County Clerk
of such County (i) to set forth on all sample ballots relating to said consolidated
elections, to be mailed to the qualified electors of the City, said measure herein-
above set forth, and to mail with said sample ballots to said electors printed
copies of arguments (if any) for and against said measures, and (ii) to provide
absent voter ballots for said Direct Primary Election and said special municipal
election consolidated therewith for use by qualified electors of the City who are
entitled thereto, in the manner provided by law.
Section 2. The Board of Supervisors of Marin County is hereby further
authorized to canvass, or cause to be canvassed, as provided by law, the returns
of said special municipal election with respect to the votes cast on said measure
and to certify such canvass of the votes cast for and against said measure to this
Council.
Section 3. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to certify to
the due adoption of this resolution and to transmit a copy hereof so certified to
the Board of Supervisors of the County and to file a copy hereof so certified with
the County Clerk of the County.
I, MARION A. GRADY, City Clerk of the City of San Rafael, hereby certify
that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly introduced and adopted by a
regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the 18th day of
March , 1974, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Jensen, Miskimen, Mulryan, Nixon and Mayor Bettini
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
MARION A. GRADY, City Clerk
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