Resolution 16144 CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 16144
ADOPTING REGULATIONS FOR CANDIDATES FOR ELECTIVE
OFFICE PERTAINING TO CANDIDATE STATEMENTS SUBMITTED
TO THE VOTERS AT AN ELECTION AND RESCINDING
RESOLUTION NO. 12795
WHEREAS, Section 13307 of the Elections Code of the State of California
provides that the governing body of any local agency can adopt regulations pertaining to
materials prepared by any candidate for a municipal election, including costs of the
candidate's statement.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the Council of the City of Alameda does
hereby resolve, declare, determine and order as follows:
Section 1. That Resolution No. 12795 is hereby rescinded.
Section 2. GENERAL PROVISIONS. That pursuant to Section 13307 of the
Elections Code of the State of California, each candidate for elective office in the City of
Alameda may prepare a candidate statement on an appropriate form provided by the City
Clerk. The statement may include the name, age and occupation of the candidate and a
brief description of no more than 200 words of the candidate's education and
qualifications expressed by the candidate. The statement shall not include party affiliation
of the candidate nor membership or activity in partisan political organizations. The
statement shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk at the time the candidate's
nomination papers are filed. The statement may be withdrawn, but not changed, during
the period for filing nomination papers and until 5:00 p. m. on the next working day after
the close of the nomination period.
Section 3. FOREIGN LANGUAGE POLICY. That pursuant to the Federal Voting
Rights Act, candidate statements will be translated into all languages required in the
County of Alameda. The County will mail separate voter information guides and
candidate statements in languages to voters who are on the County voter file as having
requested a voter information guide in a particular language. The County will make the
voter information guides and candidate statements in the required languages available at
all polling places/vote centers, on the County's website and in the office of the City Clerk.
All translations shall be provided by professionally certified translators.
Section 4. PAYMENT. That the candidate shall only be required to pay $1,000 of
the total cost of printing, handling, translating (into all languages required in the County
of Alameda pursuant to federal and/or State law) and mailing the candidate statements
filed pursuant to this section, including costs incurred as a result of complying with the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 (as amended). Each candidate filing a statement is required to
pay a $100 deposit at the time of filing as a condition of having their statement included
in the voter information guide with the remaining $900 billed after the election. If the final
actual costs are lower than $1,000, the City Clerk shall refund any excess paid.
Section 5. PRIOR NON-PAYMENT. That any candidate with a balance due from
a prior election is required to submit the full $1,000 at the time of filing the statement.
Section 6. That this resolution shall apply at the next ensuing municipal election
and at each municipal election after.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and
regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting
assembled on the 2nd day of April 2024, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Herrera Spencer, Jensen, Vella and Mayor
Ezzy Ashcraft—4.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Daysog — 1.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
said City this 3rd day of April 2024.
Lara Weisiger, Cit Clerk
City of Alameda
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Yibin Shen, City Attorney
City of Alameda