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Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare a resolution adopting a plan to implement SB 415, changing the date of Long Beach Municipal and School District Primary and General Elections. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Recent legislation will require the City of Long Beach and Long Beach Unified School District to change the dates on which they hold their primary and general elections for Mayor, City Council, School Board and other local elected officers. This Memorandum is intended to provide you an overview of the new law, an analysis of how it applies to Long Beach, and various means by which to implement these mandated changes.
1.The City Charter:
The City Charter, in pertinent part, sets the following rules regarding timing of municipal and school district elections:
1901. The primary and general municipal elections for elective officers of the City shall be held in even numbered years, on the second Tuesday in April and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June. respectively. and candidates elected to office shall assume such office on the third Tuesday in July and serve until election and qualification of their successors.
Only those elected offices shall be filled which become vacant on the third Tuesday in July of that year.
1902. All other municipal elections shall be known as special municipal elections.
1906. In the event that any candidate for nomination to an elective office shall receive a majority of the votes cast for all the candidates for nomination to such office at any primary nominating election, the candidate so receiving such majority of votes shall be deemed to be and declared by the City Council to be elected to such office.
1910. Unless otherwise provided by this Charter or ordinance adopted by the City Council, all municipal elections shall be held in accordance with the provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California governing municipal elections.
2206. The primary and general election for member...
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