Resolution 07371CITY OF ALAFEDA RESOLUTION NO. T3E1
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO TEE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA
ON MOTION OF THE CITY COUNCII; CAELING A SITZIAL MUNICIPAL
taltvrioN IN THE CITY OF ALAMEDA FOR THE BURPCRE OF SUBMITTING
TO THE EESCMTME THEREOF' A PROPOSAL le AHERN SAID CHARIER, VIZ:
1) ADDING SibirPN 1.1.-2 THERETO, META:TING TO ESTABLISINENT OF'
ELECTIVE BOARD OF EDUCAlION CONSISTING OF FIVE MEMBERS, EACH
TO SERVE FOUR YEAR TERM; FIXING DATE OS' SAID EIECITEEI, MANNER
OF' HOLDING SAME, AND PROVIDING FOR NCTICE THEREOF; AND CON-
SOLIDATING SAID SPECIAL MUNICIPAL CHARTER illENDMENT ELECTION
WITH 3113 ,1313 '13 13 OF THE STATE OF CAITFOBNIA To BE
ON NOVEMBER 5, 1968
BE il' RESOLVED BY ENE COUNCIL CS' TIP SIff CS' ALAMEDA as folLows:
SECTION 1. The Council of the City. of Alameda hereby proposes on its ow6 . motion to amend
the Charter of the City of Alameda ,, adding Section 11-2 therotca to read as sot forth in the
printed pamphlet provided for in Section 6 hereof, and in the notice entitled, "Proposed Amendment to
the Charter of the City of Alameda" hereinafter set forth in Section 3 hereof.
SECTION 2, The Council of the City of Alameda hereby proposes to and does hereby on its
on motion submit to the qualified electors of the City cf Alameda, et the Special Mhnicipal Charter
Amendment Election. hereinafter provided for, a prop1 sal. to amend the Charter of the City of Alameda
set forth in said notice hereinafter set forth in Seotibn 3 cf this resolution and designates and
referd to so id. proposal as the proposal to be set forth in the form of ballot hereinafter prescrbred.
for use at saig Spedial Munichpal Charter Amendment Election.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk of the City of Alameda ia hereby ordered and directed to cause
said proposed. amendment to the Charter of the City of Alameda to be published once, not less than
forty (40) and not more than sixty (60) days prior 10 130' date of the Special Munpal. Chagter Amend.-
meat Election hereinafter providdd for, in the ALAMEDA IIMES-STAR, the official newspaper of said
City, and in each e13 itibn. thereof during the day of publication, said newspaper being a newspaper of
general circulation published at least six days a week in said City of Alameda; and ouch publication
may be in substantially the following form:
PROPOSED AMENDMENT'
to
THE CHARTER
of the
CITY OF ALAMEDA
Special Municital Charter Amendment Election November 5, 1968 (Consolidated with 01 1' Election
of the State of Callfgrnia)
The Council. of the City of Alameda. hereby proposes an its ayn motion to amend the Clugter
of the City of Alameda. by seeing Section 11-2 thereto to read ao follows:
Sec. L1-2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter to the
contrary, the mattexa contained in this section shall be controlling as to the Board
of Education- Commencing April 15, 1969, and. thereafter, the, Bomrd of Ediacatidn
shall consist of five members elected by the qualified electors of the City at large,
at the time, in the manner, and with the qualifidatimns providdd elsemEere in this
Charter for the qualification, nomination and electdon 0'1,r elective officers of
the City, and shall serve a term of four years thereafter and until their successors
are elected and qualified_
Of the five merbero of the Board of Education elected. at the 1969 General
Municipal. Elbction, the three who receive the highest nunber of votes cast shall each
serve an initial. term of four year, and the two who receive the next two highest
numler of votes cast shall each serve an bnitial term of two years. At subsequent
General Municipal. Electihns, either two or three members of said Board, as the case
may be, shall be elected for four-year terms to fill the vacancies caused by the
expiratidn of the te= of the Bernhard.
A vacancy on the Board of Education, arising otherwise than as provided ih
Article XX, shall. be filled by appointment by. said Board, said appointee to hold office
for the term provided in Sectidn 2-8 of this Charter. After any vacandy in the office
of member of said Board has continued for twenty-one daya, the vacancy. shall be filled
by the Counil.
It ie hereby declared to be the intent of this section that the only chanmes
to be effected by its terms are to make the Board of Bdugatihm elective, rather than
appointed, and to provide the manner in which the Axmbers thereof shall be, elected.
Except to the extent that they are inconsistent with the .06 10 of tills section,
other provisions of this Charter relating to the Board of Education and other elective
officers shall apply .0 11- Board of Education drovided for by this section-
The Council of the (Ely of Alameda, hereby proposes to and does hereby on its myn motion suma.
mit to the quailfihd electors of said City at a Special Municipal Chanter Amendment Election to be
held in said City on. Tuesday, November 5, 1968 (which said election will be consolidated with the
Genoral Election of the State of California to be held on November 5, iBbE), the following proposal
to amend sabi Charter of the City of Alemeda,in the manner hereinabove specifically set forth, as
follows;
AMENDMENT TO THE OHARTFE OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA
Shall the Charter of the City of Alameda be amended to provide that the Board of
Educatien ,0, the Alameda Unified School District shall consitt of fide members
to be elected by direct. dote of the people at large, each of said members to
serve a four-year term? Said amendment will be accomplished by adding Section
11,2 to said Charter, al/ as fully set forth by Resolutian No. 73555 of the
Counoil cf the City cf Alameda.
. YES
hereby certify- that the foregoing Charter amendment proposal was ordered submitted
to the qualified electors af the City of Alameda by the Council of the City of Alameda.
Dated: August 21, 1968
SHIPLEY H. TINNIER
City Clerk of the City of Alithecia
SECTION 4. (a) A Special Municipal Charter Amendment Election is hereby called to be
held in t City of Alameda on Tuesday, November 5, 1968, for the purpose of submitting to the
qualified electors of said City said proposal set for in Section. 3 of this resolution to amend the
Charter of saIE City aa in said proposal and in this resolution provided an10 . as hereby submitted by
the Council of the City of Alameda on ite owm motion.
(b) Said Special Municipal Charter Amendment Election hereby called shall. be held and
conducted, and the votes thereat canvassed and the returns thereof made, and. the results thereof
ascertained and determined. as herein prodlded, and in all particulars not prescribed Ea this resolu-
tion, said Special. Municipal Charter Amendment Election shall be held as provided for in the Charter
of said City- and in all particulart not provided for therein said election shall be held as provided
by law for the holding of special mumicipal electiohe in the City of Alameda, an0 . otherwise in accord,
ance with the Elections Code of the State of California.
(c) Al l persons qualified to vote at municipal. elections in saiE City of Alameda on the
day of the election herein. provided for shall be qualified to vote upon said amendment hereby proposed
by the Council of the City of Alameda on. its own motion and submitted a said Special Municipal Charter
Amemtnent Election.
(a.) The polls at the polling places hereinafter designated for sail Special Municipal
Charter Amendment Election shall be opened at 7:00 a.m. (P.S.T.) of said day of' electipn and shall
be kept open continuously thereafter. until 7:00 p.m. (P.S.T.) of said day of electien when the polls
shall be sigted (except as provided in Section 14206 of the Elections Code), and the election
officers shall thereupon proceed to 0. '11' the ballots cast thereat.
(e) Said Special Municipal Charter Amendment Election shall be and is hereby consolidated
With the General Election of the State of California to be held in. said City of Alameda on the date
of said Special Municipal Charter Amendment Election hereby called, and the election precincts, poll-
ing places and. voting booths shall La every case be the same, and there shall be only one set of
election officers in each of said precincts; and the precincts, polling places and officers of elec-
tion for said Special Municipal Charter kmendruent Election shall be the same as those to be selected
anddesignated by the Board. of Supervisors of the County of Alameda, State of California, for said
General Election of the State of California in said City of Alameda by resolution or ordinance of
the aforesaid Board of Supervisors relating to the holding and conducting of the General Election of
t State of California, to which resolution or drdinance reference hereby 1,, for a designation
of the precincts, polling places and election officers for the Spepial Munipipal Charter Amendment
Election hereby called-
(f) Only one form. of ballot shall be used. at said General Election of the State of
California and sail Special Municipal Charter Amendment Election hereby consolidated therewith, which,
in addition to all other matters required by law- to be printed thereon, shall state the measure set
forth in Section 3 hereof.
(g) Each voter may vete an the proposed Charter amendment- To vote in favor 01 101, pro-
posal to amend the Charter of the CiEy or Alameda a voter shall stamp a cross (X.) in the blank space
opposite the word "TES" on the ballot to the right of the proposal, and te vote against said proposal.
a voter shall stamp a. cross (t) in the blank space opposite the word "NO, on the ballot to the right
of said proposal- The vates cagt for and against the proposed charter amendment shall be counted
separate and apart from all other measures to be submitted al, aaid election and if a majority of the
qualified voters: voting on the proposed charter amendment vote in favor thereof, such charter amend-
ment shall be deemed ratified.
(h) The returns of said eisction shall be canvassed, made out and. signed by the election
officers • designated by the Board of Superadeors, County of Alameda, State of California, and the
results thereof transmitted to the City Clerk of Alameda, and City Council thereof, who shall declare
tne result thereof' in accordance with the Charter of' the City of Alameda and the laws of the State
of California-
SECTION 5. Said. measure set forth in Section 3 hereof shall be set forth in. the election
proclamation and notice of Special Municipal. Charter Lmendment Election consolidated with the General
Election of the State of California. to be held. on Tuesday, November 5, 1963, to be published in the
time and form required by Sections 1G-9 and 19-14 of Article XIX of the Chatter of the City of Alameda.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk of the City of Alameda is hereby authorised and. directed (1)
to cause copies of the text of said proposed charter amendment to be printed in convenient pamphlet
form and in type of not less than ten-point and to cause copies thereof' to be mailed to each of the
qualified electors of said City, and (2) until. the day fixed 444 said Special lannicLpal t Amend-
ment Election to advertiee daily in the ALAMEDA TINES-STAR, a nemspaper cf general circulation in
said City, a notice that copies of said pamphlet may be had on application therefor. Said notice
shall be in substantially tne following form:
NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF' CEAREER AMENDMENTS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the qualified electors of the City of Alameda that pamphlet copies
of the amendAant, proposed by the City Council on its own motion, to the Charter of the City of Alameda,
adding Section 11-2 thereto, providing for a change in saiG Charter as :pi 'c set forth Ea said
pamphlet copies, taiich shall be nailed to each of the qualified electors of said City, are on file
in the office of the City Clerk, City Nall, Alameda, California. Copies of' said. pamphlet are available
in said °Med and may be had on application therefor.
IIIRITHE H. TENDIER
Shirley E. Tennier
City Clerk of the City- of Alamedn,
California
, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda in regular meeting assetbled on the
2044 h day- of August, 1968, by the following vote, to wit:
AMES: Councilmen Fare, La Croix, Jr., Levy and. President McCall, (4).
NOES: Nond.
AESEINT: Councilman Isaacs, (1).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have areunta set my hand and affixed the official seal of said
City this 21st day of (31 1968.
(SEAL)
INE DL TEENIER
City Clerk of the City of Alameda
hereby certify' that the foregoing •a as full, true and correct copy of ICity of Alameda
Resolution No. 7371, PROPOSING AA AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF AIANEDA ON MOTION OF TPE
CITY COUNCIL; CALLING A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL, ELECTION IN THE CIII OF ALAMEDA FOR IBC PURPOSE OF SUBMIT-
TING To THE ELECTORS IHEREOF A 4444 TO AIM) SAID GUILTIER, VIZ: BY ADDING, SECTION 11-2 THERETO,
RELATINC TO ESTABLISHMENT OF ELECTIVE HOARD OP' EDUCATION CONSISTING OF FTVE NENMED8, EACH TO SERVE
FOUR NEAR TERM; FIXING DATE OF SAID ELECTION, MANNER OF HOLDING SANE, AND PROVIDING FOR 101 144
THEREOF; AND CONSOLICALIND SAID SPECIAL MUNICIRAT, CHARTER AMENDMENT ELECTION VITH IDE 0' 31' ELECTION
OF THE SIETE OF CALIFORNIA TO BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 5, 1908,' introduced and adopted by the Council on
the 20th day of August, 1968.