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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021-07-26 21-285 OrderCITY COUNCIL ACTION Council Meeting Date: Item No: Responsible Dept: Requested Action: Summary Committee Action Meeting Date: For: Against: City Manager City Solicitor Finance Director Map/Lot: Introduced for: Order Committee: Action: Staff Comments & Approvals Date: Item No: Assigned to Councilor: 21-285 JULY 26, 2021 EXHIBIT A PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENTS Statement of Fact: Deletions of the existing Charter provisions are struck through. Additions are underlined. Art. VI. Sec. 8 Contents and Form of Ballot. The names of candidates nominated as provided in the preceding section shall be arranged on the ballot in alphabetical order according to surnames. The names of City Council candidates nominated as provided in the preceding section shall be arranged in the order by which they are drawn by lot by the City Clerk. The Clerk shall draw names at 5:00 p.m. on the next business day after the last date that nomination papers can be filed with the Office of the City Clerk. The drawing shall be conducted in public and all candidates shall be notified of the place, date, and time that the drawing shall take place. The ballots shall be without party mark or designation. The full name and residence of each candidate shall be given. At the right ofAdjacent to each name shall be a space for the voter to indicate the voter’s choice. Blank spaces shall be left at the end of the list of the candidates for each office, in which the name of any person not printed on the ballot, for whom the voter desires to vote may be inserted. Summary: Currently the Charter requires vote indicators to be placed to the right of the candidate’s name. This change will allow for flexibility in the layout of the ballot and allow the City to match the layout of the State’s ballot. This change is necessary to allow the City to provide accessible absentee ballots, which the City is required to do, through the State of Maine’s current vendor. Art. VI. Sec. 11 Recall. A member of the Bangor City Council or School Committee may be recalled and removed from elected office by the voters of the City as herein provided. …. (d) Form of ballot in recall elections. The form of the ballot shall, as nearly as possible be: "Shall (name and title of official) be recalled?" The reason for the recall as presented in the Request for Recall shall be included in the statement following the ballot question and the Yes or No indicator. Summary: The change will clarify that the reason for the recall shall be included following the recall question and voting indicator to allow for flexibility in the layout of the ballot, which will assist the City in providing accessible absentee ballots. 1 IN CITY COUNCIL JULY 26,2021 CO 21-285 Motion made and seconded for Passage Passed CIT CTEft