DEPARTMENT: Office of the City Clerk
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Leticia M. Vacek, City Clerk
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City-wide
SUBJECT:
Ordinances canvassing the November 6, 2018 Election Results
SUMMARY:
This item will canvass the official results of the November 6, 2018 Charter Amendment Election, the Special Election of identified areas within five miles of Camp Bullis and Camp Stanley Military Bases and identified areas within five miles of Lackland Air Force Base and Medina Base Training Annex to allow voters to choose between annexation or the authority to adopt and enforce an ordinance regulating land use recommended by the most recent joint land use study.
The City Clerk will provide a Certified Copy of the Charter Amendment Election Results to the Secretary of State as required by state law.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
On Tuesday, November 6, 2018, the City of San Antonio held a Charter and Two Special Elections.
The Charter Amendment Election was ordered by City Council on August 16, 2018 after three petitions were submitted to the Office of the City Clerk on April 11, 2018 to amend the City Charter as follows:
A. To limit the term the City Manager may serve to no longer than eight years, to limit the compensation of the City Manager to no more than ten times the annual salary furnished to the lowest paid full-time city employee, and to require a supermajority vote to appoint the City Manager;
B. To increase the number of days within which a petition may be filed seeking a referendum on an ordinance passed by council from forty to one hundred eighty days after passage of the ordinance, to provide that no more than twenty thousand signatures of registered voters are required for a petition to amend the City Charter instead of ten percent of those electors qualified to vote at the last regular municipal election, and to expand the types of ordinances that may be subject to referendum including appropriation of money, levying a tax, granting a franchise, fixing public utility rates, zoning and rezoning of property; and
C. To provide the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 624 with unilateral authority to require the City to participate in binding arbitration of all issues in dispute with the Association within forty-five days of the City’s receipt of the Association’s written arbitration request.
The two special Elections were ordered by City Council on August 2, 2018 relating to possible annexation or the authority to adopt and enforce an ordinance regulating land use on identified areas within five miles of Camp Bullis and Camp Stanley Military Bases and the Lackland Air Force Base and Medina Annex.
ISSUE:
The City Council as Canvassing Authority, will canvass the Unofficial Election Results of the Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Charter and Special Election.
ALTERNATIVES:
City Council is required by law to canvass election results.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No fiscal impact is associated with Canvassing Election Results.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval of these Ordinances.