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Recommendation to request City Council to receive and file the certification of the petition regarding the Regulation of Medical Marijuana Businesses; and approve one of the following three alternative actions, as required by the California Elections Code Section 9215 and the Long Beach City Charter Section 2000, to either:
1) Adopt the Initiative Ordinance, without alteration, at the
regular meeting at which the certification of the petition
is presented, or within 10 days after it is presented;
2) Submit the Initiative Ordinance, without alteration, to the
voters to be held on November 8, 2016; or
3) Order a report pursuant to California State Elections Code
Section 9212 at the regular meeting at which the certification
of the petition is presented; and when the report is presented
to the legislative body, the legislative body shall either adopt
the Initiative Ordinance within 10 days or order an election.
DISCUSSION
On June 1, 2016, proponents of the Regulation of Medical Marijuana Businesses submitted petitions to the Office of the City Clerk for signature verification in order to determine whether the initiative would qualify for placement upon the November 8, 2016, Statewide General Election ballot.
Upon a prima facie review, the Office of the City Clerk determined that the petitions contained 35,009 signatures from which a random sample verification of 1 ,051 signatures would be conducted pursuant to Elections Code Section 9115.
For the petition to be deemed sufficient pursuant to Elections Code Section 9115, the random sample needed to yield, on a projected basis, 27,402 valid signatures of Long Beach registered voters.
Based on the Section 9115 authorized random sample, the Office of the City Clerk determined that the petition contains a projected 28,436 valid signatures; and is therefore certified as sufficient, as authorized by Elections Code Section 9115(f).
With certification of the initiative petition b...
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