Resolution 0849976
CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO, 8499
PROPOSING AN INITIATIVE ON PETITION SIGNED BY FIFTEEN PERCENT
(154) OF THE REGISTERED ELECTORS: CALLING A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL
INITIATIVE ELECTION IN CITY OF ALAMEDA FOR THE PURPOSE OF
SUBMITTING TO ELECTORS OF SAID CITY THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION:
SHALL ALAMEDA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT AMEND THE PLANS WITH THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND BRING ALAMEDA HIGH SCHOOL INTO CONFORMANCE
WITH THE FIELD ACT REQUIREMENTS BY REHABILITATING THE EXISTING
STRUCTURES PURSUANT TO ARTICLE III, SECTIONS 3,2 AND 3,3, ARTICLE
XI SECTIONS 11.1 AND 11,2 PARAGRAPH 4, AND ARTICLE XXI SECTION
21.1 OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA: PROVIDING
FOR NOTICE AND ADVERTISING CF SAME AND CONSOLIDATING SAID SPECIAL
MUNICIPAL INITIATIVE ELECTION WITH STATE PRIMARY ELECTION TO BE
HELD ON JUNE 8, 1976
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA as follows:
SECTION 1, The Council of the City of Alameda hereby proposes, on petition signed by
fifteen percent (151) of the registered electors, an initiative resolution, to read as provided
in the notice entitled "Proposed Initiative Resolution', hereinafter set forth in Section 3 of this
resolution.
SECTION 2. The Council of the City of Alameda hereby proposes to and does hereby, on
petition signed by fifteen percent (154) of the registered electors, submit to the qualified
electors of the City of Alameda, as the Special Municipal Initiative Election hereinafter provided
for, an initiative resolution set forth in said notice hereinafter set forth in Section 3 of this
resolution and designates and refers to said initiative resolution as the initiative resolution to
be set forth in the form of ballot hereinafter prescribed for use at said Special Municipal Initiative
Election.
SECTION 3, The City Clerk of the City of Alameda is hereby ordered and directed to
cause said initiative resolution to be published once, not less than forty (40 and not more
than sixty (60) days prior to the date of the Special Municipal Initiative Election hereinafter
provided for in the ALAMEDA TIMES-STAR, the official newspaper of said City, and in each edition
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 said publication may be in
substantially the following form:
INITIATIVE RESOLUTION
Special Municipal Initiative Election June 8, 1976
(Consolidated with Primary Election of the State of California)
The Council of the City of Alameda hereby proposes, on Petition signed by fifteen
percent (15%) of the registered electors, an initiative resolution,
The Council of the City of Alameda hereby proposes to and does hereby on petition signed
by fifteen percent (154) of the registered electors, submit to the qualified electors of said City
at a Special Municipal Initiative Election to be hedl in said City on Tuesday, June 8, 1976 (which
said election will be consolidated with the Primary Election of the State of California to be held
on June 8, 1976), the following resolution:
INITIATIVE RESOLUTION
Shall Alameda City School District amend the plans
with the State of California and bring Alameda
High School into conformance with the Field Act
requirements by rehabilitating the existing
structures pursuant to Article III, Sections 3,2
and 3.3, Article XI, Sections 11.1 and 11.2 para-
graph 4, and Article XXI Section 21.1 of the Charter
of the City of Alameda, California,
YES
NO
I hereby certify that the foregoing Initiative Resolution was ordered submitted to the
qualified electors of the City of Alameda by the Council of the City of Alameda,
Dated: March 1E, 1976
ETHEL M, PITT
City Clerk of tlie City of Alameda
SECTION 4, (a) A Special Municipal Election is hereby called to be held in the City of
Alameda on Tuesday, June 8, 1976 for the purpose cf submitting to the qualified electors of said
City said initiative resolution set forth in Section 3 of this resolution and as hereby submitted
by the Council of the City of Alameda on petition signed by fifteen percent (154) of the registered
electors of said City.
(b) Said Special Municipal Initiative Election hereby called shall be held and
conducted, and the votes thereat canvassed and the returns thereof made, and the resultt thereof
made, and the resolts thereof ascertained and determined as herein provided, and in all particulars
not prescribed in this resolution, said Special Municipal Initiative Election shall be held as
provided for in the Charter of said City and in all particulars not provided for therein said
election shall be held as provided by law for the holding of special municipal elections in the
City of Alameda, and otherwise in accordance with the Elections Code of the State of California.
(c) All persons qualified to vote at municipal elections in said City of Alameda on
the day of the election herein provided for shall he qualified to vote upon said initiative resolution
hereby proposed by the Council of the City of Alameda, on petition signed by fifteen percent (1St)
of the registered electors of said City, and submitted at said Special Municipal Initiative Election.
(d) The polls at the polling places hereinafter designated for said Special Municipal
Initiative Election shall be opened at 7:00 a.m, on said day of election, and shall be kept open
continuously thereafter until 7:00 p.m, of said day of election when the polls shall be closed
(except as provided in Section 14436 of the Election Code), and the election officer shall thereupon
proceed to canvass the ballots cast thereat.
(e) Said Special Municipal Initiative Election shall be and is hereby consolidated with
the Primary Election of the State of California to be held on said City cf Alameda on the date of
said Special Municipal Initiative Election hereby called, and the election precincts, polling
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 the precincts, polling places and officers of election for
said Special Municipal Initiative Election shall be the same as those to be selected and designated
by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Alameda, State of California, for said Primary 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 Primary Election of the State of
California, to which resolution or ordinance reference is hereby made for a designation of the
precincts, polling places and election officers for the Special Municipal Initiative Election hereby
called,
(f) Only one form of ballot shall be used at said Primary Election of the State of
California and said Special Municipal Initiative Election hereby consolidated therewith, which,
in addition to all other matters required by law tc he printed thereon, shall state the resolution
set forth in Section 3 hereof.
(g) Each voter may vote an the proposed resolution, Tc vote in favor of the proposal a
voter shall stamp a cross (X) in the blank space opposite the word "YES on the ballot to the right
of the proposal, and to vote against said proposal, a voter shall stamp a cross (X) in the blank
space opposite the word "NO on the ballot to the right of said proposal. If a majority of the
qualified voters voting an the proposed resolution vote in favor thereof, such a resolution shall
be deemed ratified.
(1) The returns of said election shall be canvassed, made out and signed by the election
officers so designated by the Board of Supervisors, County of Alameda, State of California, and the
results thereof transmitted tc the City Clerk of Alameda, and City Council thereof, who shall
declare the result thereof in accordance with the Charter of the City of Alameda and the laws of
the State of California.
SECTION 5. Said initiative resolution set forth in Section 3 hereof shall be net forth
in the election proclamation and notice of Special Municipal Initiative Election consolidated with
the Primary Election cf the State of California to be held on Tuesday, June 8, 1976, to be published
in the time and form required by Sections 19-9 and 19-14 of Article XIX of the Charter of the City
of Alameda.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk of the City of Alameda is hereby authorized and directed
(1) to cause copies of the text of said proposed initiative resolution to he nrinted in convenient
pamphlet form and in type of not less than ten-point and to cause copies thereof to he mailed to
each of the qualified electors cf said City, and (2) until the day fixed for said Special Municipal
Initiative Election to advertise daily in the ALAMEDA TIMES-STAR, H newspaper of general circulation
in said City, a notice that copies of said pamphlet may be had on application therefor. Said notice
shall be in substantially the following form:
NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF INITIATIVE RESOLUTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the qualified electors of the City of Alameda that pamphlet
copies of the initiative resolution proposed by the City Council, on petition sired by fifteen
percent (155) of the registered electors, submitting to electors of said City the following resolution:
Shall Alameda City School District amend the plans with the State of California and bring Alameda High
School into conformance with the Field Act requirements by rehabilitating the existing structures
pursuant to Article III Sections 3.2 and 3.3, Article XI Sections 11.1 and 11.2 paragraph 4, and
Article XXI Sectbn 21.1 of the Charter of the City of Alameda, California, are en file in the office
of the City Clerk, City Hall, Alameda, California. Copies of said pamphlet are available in said
office and may be had on application therefor.
ETHEL M, PITT
Ethel M. Pitt
City Clerk of the City of Alameda, California
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I, the undersiened, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the
16th day of March, 1976, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Beckam, Diament and President Ccrica, (3),
NOES: Councilmen Hurwitz and Sherratt, (2).
ABSENT: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said
City this 17th day of March, 1976.
(SEAL) ETHEL M. PITT
City Clerk of the City of 4lamede
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of "City of Alameda
Resolution No, 8499, PROPOSING AN INITIATIVE ON PETITION SIGNED BY FIFTEEN PERCENT (15%) OF THE
REGISTERED ELECTORS: CALLING A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL INITIATIVE ELECTION IN CITY OF ALAMEDA FOR THE
PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING TO ELECTORS OF SAID CITY THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION: SHALL ALAMEDA CITY SCHOOL
DISTRICT AMEND THE PLANS WITH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND BRING ALAMEDA HIGH SCHOOL INTO CONFORMANCE
WITH THE FIELD ACT REQUIREMENTS BY REHABILITATING THE EXISTING STRUCTURES PURSUANT TO ARTICLE III,
SECTIONS 3.2 AND 3.3, ARTICLE XI SECTIONS 11.1 AND 11.2 PARAGRAPH 4, AND ARTICLE XXI SECTION 21.1
OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA: PROVIDING FOR NOTICE AND ADVERTISING OF SAME AND
CONSOLIDATING SAIC SPECIAL MUNICIPAL INITIATIVE ELECTION WITH THE STATE PRIMARY ELECTION TO BE HELD
ON JUNE 8, 1975, introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda on the 16th day of
March, 1976.
City Clerk of the City of Alameda