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Council meeting: December 12, 2000 Santa Monica, CA
To: Mayor and Councilmembers
From: Director of Records & Election Services
Subject: Resolution of the City Council of the City of Santa Monica
Accepting the Los Angeles County Registrar-
Recorder/County Clerk’s Official Canvass and Official
Statement of Votes Cast for the Consolidated Municipal
Election Held on November 7, 2000, and Declaring the
Results Thereof
INTRODUCTION
On November 7, 2000, a consolidated municipal election was held in the City of
Santa Monica with the purpose of election three members to the Santa Monica
Community College District Board of Trustees, three members to the Santa
Monica-Malibu Unified School District, two commissioners to the Santa Monica
Rent Control Board, and four members to the Santa Monica City Council.
The City Council also placed three measures on the ballot. The measures
placed on the ballot read as follows:
Measure KK: Shall the City Charter be amended to add specified minimum wage
and employee benefit requirements for some employees doing work on City
contracts and grants and barring the City from establishing, modifying, or
regulating wage and benefit requirements except by initative?
Measure LL: Shall the City Charter be amended to prohibit any City public official
who approves giving a public contract or other benefit to any person from
receiving “personal or campaign advantages” from that person for up to six
years?
Measure MM: Shall the City Charter be amended by adding language explicitly
exempting civil fines from the $500.00 limit applicable to criminal penalties for
Municipal Code violations?
BACKGROUND
The Registrar Recorder/County Clerk of the County of Los Angeles has
submitted to the City Clerk a certified canvass of the votes cast for all candidates
and for the ballot measures. The results, as reported by the County Clerk, are as
follows:
Candidates elected to the Santa Monica Community College Board of Trustees:
CANDIDATE VOTES
Annette Shamey 20,255
Margaret R. Qui?ones 17,871
Pat Nichelson 17,233
Candidates elected to the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District:
CANDIDATE VOTES
Mike Jordan 24,090
Jose Escarce 20,151
Maria Leon-Vazquez 17,534
Candidates elected as Commissioners to the City of Santa Monica Rent Control
Board:
CANDIDATE VOTES
M. Douglas Willis 19,357
Jeffrey Sklar 17,102
Candidates elected to the Santa Monica City Council:
CANDIDATE VOTES
Michael Feinstein 21,084
Richard Bloom 19,343
Ken Genser 17,596
Herb Katz 14,283
Measure KK was defeated, and Measures LL and MM were approved by the
voters by the following votes:
Measure KK:
Yes 7,868 (22%)
No 28,335 (78%)
Measure LL:
Yes 19,468 (59%)
No 13,648 (41%)
Measure MM:
Yes 16,164 (53%)
No 14,322 (47%)
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the resolution accepting the certified canvass
of the votes cast at the municipal election be adopted.
Prepared by: Maria M. Stewart, Director of Records & Election Services
Attachment: Resolution
City Council Meeting: December 12, 2000 Santa Monica, CA
RESOLUTION NO. ______(CCS)
(CITY COUNCIL SERIES)
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SANTA MONICA ACCEPTING THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY
REGISTRAR RECORDER/COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICIAL CANVASS
AND OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF VOTES CAST FOR THE
CONSOLIDATED MUNICIPAL ELECTION HELD ON
NOVEMBER 7, 2000, AND DECLARING THE RESULTS THEREOF
WHEREAS, a Consolidated General Municipal Election was held in the
City of Santa Monica on November 7, 2000, as required by law; and
WHEREAS, the provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California
for the holding of elections in Charter cities were complied with in that notice of
the election was given in the time, form and manner as provided by law; voting
precincts were properly established; election officers were appointed; votes were
cast, received and canvassed; and the returns were made and declared in the
time, form and manner as required; and
WHEREAS, the Los Angeles Registrar Recorder/County Clerk canvassed
the returns of the election and certified the results to the City Council, and those
results are attached and made a part hereof as “Exhibit A”,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The vote totals for the Consolidated Municipal Election held
on November 7, 2000, in the City of Santa Monica, as certified by the Los
Angeles County Registrar Recorder/County Clerk, shall be and hereby are
approved and adopted as the formal vote count of the City of Santa Monica for
said offices and said measures of said election.
SECTION 2. The names of the candidates on the ballot were:
Santa Monica-Malibu
College District Unified School District
Board of Trustees Board of Education
Annette Shamey Mike Jordan
Joe Weichman Eleanore Meyer
Pat Nichelson Maria Leon-Vazquez
Pat McGuire Gleam Davis
Robert Klepa Jose Escarce
Margaret Carroll
Margaret R. Quinones
Santa Monica Rent Control Board
Jeffrey Sklar
M. Douglas Willis
Santa Monica City Council
Michael Feinstein Edward A. Curnel
Don Gray David Cole
Ken Genser Chuck Allord
Jon Louis Stevens Richard Horner
Jerry Rubin Donna Block
Robert Ross Richard Bloom
Herb Katz
SECTION 3. The number of total ballots cast for this election were:
Santa Monica Community College District Board of Trustees
REGISTERED PRECINCT ABSENTEE TOTAL
VOTERS BALLOTS BALLOTS BALLOTS
71,610 41,132 10,707 51,839
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education:
REGISTERED PRECINCT ABSENTEE TOTAL
VOTERS BALLOTS BALLOTS BALLOTS
71,695 41,132 10,782 51,914
Measures KK, LL, MM, and for election to the Santa Monica Rent Control
Board and City Council:
REGISTERED PRECINCT ABSENTEE TOTAL
VOTERS BALLOTS BALLOTS BALLOTS
59,305 34,319 8,340 42,659
SECTION 4. The following persons were elected to office as follows:
Santa Monica Community College Board of Trustees:
CANDIDATE VOTES
Annette Shamey 20,255 (23%)
Margaret R. Quinones 17,871 (20%)
Pat Nichelson 17,233 (20%)
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education:
CANDIDATE VOTES
Mike Jordan 24,090 (28%)
Jose Escarce 20,151 (23%)
Maria Leon-Vazquez 17,534 (20%)
City of Santa Monica Rent Control Board:
CANDIDATE VOTES
M. Douglas Willis 19,357 (53%)
Jeffrey Sklar 17,102 (47%)
Santa Monica City Council:
CANDIDATE VOTES
Michael Feinstein 21,084 (18%)
Richard Bloom 19,343 (17%)
Ken Genser 17,596 (15%)
Herb Katz 14,283 (12%)
SECTION 5. The measures that appeared on the ballot read as follows:
MEASURE KK: Shall the City Charter be amended to add specified
minimum wage and employee benefit requirements for some employees doing
work on City contracts and grants and barring the City from establishing,
modifying, or regulating wage and benefit requirements except by initiative?
MEASURE LL: Shall the City Charter be amended to prohibit any City
public official who approves giving a public contract or other benefit to any
person from receiving “personal or campaign advantages” from that person for
up to six years?
MEASURE MM: Shall the City Charter be amended by adding language
explicitly exempting civil fines from the $500.00 limit applicable to criminal
penalties for Municipal Code violations?
Measure KK did not receive a majority of the votes required, and therefore failed
by the following vote:
Yes 7,868 (22%)
No 28,335 (78%)
The following measures did receive the required votes, and were therefore
approved by the following vote:
Proposition LL
Yes 19,468 (59%)
No 13,648 (41%)
Proposition MM
Yes 16,164 (53%)
No 14,322 (47%)
SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall enter on the records of the Santa Monica
City Council, a statement of the result of the election showing: (1) the total
number of votes cast for the offices and measures in the election; (2) the names
of the persons voted for; (3) the text of the measures voted upon; (4) the office
that each person was running for; (5) the number of votes given at each precinct
to each person, and for and against the ballot measures; and, (6) the total
number of votes given to each person, and for and against the ballot measures.
SECTION 7. The City Clerk shall immediately make and deliver to each of
the persons so elected a Certificate of Election signed by the City Clerk and
authenticated. The City Clerk shall also administer to each person elected the
Oath of Office prescribed in the Constitution of the State of California and shall
have each person subscribe to it and file it in the office of the City Clerk. All of the
persons so elected shall then be inducted into the office to which they have been
elected.
SECTION 8. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution,
and thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.
APPOVED AS TO FORM:
_________________________
MARSHA JONES MOUTRIE
City Attorney
(Exhibit “A” not available electronically. Available at the City Clerk’s Office )