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Home My WebLink About022844 ORD - 02/11/1997AN ORDINANCE GOVERNING CITY ELECTIONS IN 1997, INCLUDING APPOINTMENT AND COMPENSATION OF ELECTION OFFICIALS, VOTING SYSTEMS, BALLOT BOXES, AND CENTRAL COUNTING STATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, regular City Council elections are scheduled for April 1997 and other City elections may be scheduled at other times in 1997; and WHEREAS, such elections should be conducted efficiently in accordance with the Texas Election Code section recited below; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, THAT: SECTION 1. This Ordinance shall govern all City of Corpus Christi elections during the calendar year 1997. SECTION 2. Presiding Judges and Alternate Presiding Judges are appointed as specified in attached Exhibit A, which is incorporated herein (Sec. 32.005). Each Presiding Judge shall appoint not less than two nor more than five election clerks (with any additional clerks appointed only upon the approval of the City Secretary), one of whom shall be the precinct's Alternate Presiding Judge appointed herein (Secs. 32.031, 32.033). The City Secretary is authorized in the event of an emergency, preventing any of the designated Presiding Judges and Alternate Presiding Judges from being utilized, to provide for suitable replacements. SECTION 3. Art Chavarria is appointed Presiding Judge of the Early Voting Ballot Board (Sec. 87.002), and Presiding Judge of the Central Counting Station (Sec. 127.005). SECTION 4. Armando Chapa is appointed Manager of the Central Counting Station (Sec. 127.002). SECTION 5. Diana Barrera is appointed Tabulation Supervisor of the Central Counting Station (Sec. 127.003). SECTION 6. Norma Marshall is approved as Assistant to the Tabulation Supervisor (Sec. 127.003). SECTION 7. City Secretary Armando Chapa is appointed the authority responsible for the conduct of City elections including training and is directed to make all necessary arrangements to lawfully conduct elections. X14 ACROF.ILMEO SECTION 8. Compensation for persons appointed in or pursuant to this ordinance shall be: (a) Appointment under Section 2 and 3: Presiding Judge and Alternate Presiding Judge shall be compensated at $6.00 per hour for services rendered; election clerks who are not City employees shall be compensated at $5.00 per hour for services rendered, subject to Section 32.091; $25 shall be paid for delivering precinct election records, keys to ballot boxes, or other election equipment, and unused election supplies after an election (Sec. 32.092); $6.00 shall be paid for one hour of training for Presiding and Alternate Judges. Overtime shall be paid as per Fair Labor Standards Act. (b) Appointments under Sections 4 and 7: No compensation additional to City salary. (c) Appointments under Sections 5 and 6: No compensation additional to Nueces County salaries. (These services will be part of package of services furnished by Nueces County.) (d) Any City employee: No compensation additional to City salary; overtime shall be paid as per City Compensation Ordinance and Fair Labor Standards Act. SECTION 9. The electronic voting system approved by the Secretary of State and the United States Department of Justice for Nueces County is adopted for early voting and election day voting. (Sec. 123.001). SECTION 10. Sealed ballot boxes shall be used in accordance with Chapter 127, Subchapter C, Election Code. SECTION 11. The Nueces County Courthouse is designated as the sole central counting station for early vote tabulation (Sec. 127.001). SECTION 12. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgement of a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, work, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose. SECTION 13. The fact that it is necessary and essential that the governing body of the City of Corpus Christi order elections pertaining to municipal affairs, that the notice of such election should be promptly posted and published, that a regular City election shall be held on the first Saturday in April, 1997, and that the requirements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 may be timely met, and immediate action is necessary for the efficient and effective administration of the City's affairs, creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction but that such ordinance shall be read at two meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor, having declared that such emergency and necessity exist, having requested the suspension of the Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, the Council hereby finds that such emergency and necessity do exist, and IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the J/LL day of February, 1997. ATTEST: City Secretary MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI APPROVED: ?1DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1997 JAMES R. BRAY, JR., CITY ATTORNEY By .le?. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance an emergency exists requiring suspension of the Charter rule as to consideration and voting upon ordinances at two regular meeting; 1/we, therefor, request that you suspend said Charter rule and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, Respectfully, Council Members MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Mary Rhodes Jack Best Betty Black okto Melody Cooper (2) Tony Heldenfels Betty Jean Longoria John Longoria Edward Martin David McNichols u22 14 CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI GENERAL ELECTION - APRIL 5,1997 PRECINCT JUDGE ALTERNATE JUDGE 1 Blanche De Los Santos Estella De Los Santos 2 Dorothy Corcoran Patricia Rimar 4 Estela Mejia Lee Ann McCleery 5 Leloise Green Vivian Berryman 6 Vic Menard Vicki Beck 7 Rosalinda Rodela Raul Rodela 8 Ed Lewis Betty Shockley *9 Susie Resendez Juanita Cabrialez 17 Nicolas Horak Margarita Horak 18 Joe Cavazos Bruce Markley 20 Barbarita Ternes Blanca Vasques 21 June Grote Mary Bodger 24 Richard Hardy Gilda S. Mata 29 & 3 & *16 Mark Harper Diane Harwell 30 Ardelia Price Oveal Williams 31 Veronica Leal Mario Leal 32 Linda Stansbury Sue Williams 33 Lodia Sally Villegas Odilia Cantu *34 Maria Hinojosa Lucia Bentacourt 38 Pearlie Askey Ruth Tryon 39 Delia Salazar Gloria Perez *40 & *19 Ann Alexander Tom Riley 41 Jesse Hix Elisa S. Pons PRECINCT JUDGE ALTERNATE JUDGE 42 Phyllis Lewis Virigina Wenzell 43 Mary B. Sugarek Estefana Peters 44 Gloria Garcia Belia Canales 45 & 46 Gabe Rivas, III Joseph Rivas 47 Mrs. Ireneo Saenz Gilbert M. Gutierrez 48 Mrs. Jimmy Mosier Mrs. Donald Gibson 49 Elma Corkill Carl Mieraw 50 & 59 Jay Cazalas Pelagia Cazalas *51 C.E. Ginn, Sr. Mable C. Ginn 53 Blanche M. De Los Santos Elizabeth De Los Santos 56 Ruth C. Olson Juanita Lopez 57 Marilyn Dow Kathy Carter 58 Patsy Sparkman Mary Coons 60 Flora Holmes Virigina Escamilla 61 Lillie White Amy Coleman 62 Manuela Villarreal Henry Almaraz 63 Antonia Mercado Petra Cervantes 64 Mody Boatright Frances Boatright 65 E.W. Schrader Billy Johnson 66 Virginia Spoor Mrs. Antonio Abarca 67 Minerva Leal Gaytan Howard Stephen Garcia 68 Lucille Herford Christine Keith 69 Mrs. J.O. Spencer Mr. J. O. Spencer 70 Bill Veith Joan Veith 71 & 95 Adela Soto Viola Van Houten PRECINCT 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 & 52 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 92 93 94 96 97 98 JUDGE Pearline Dlabaja M.R. Zepeda Olga Gonzales Aurora Castillo Dolores O'Riley Mary Garcia Welder Brown Adela Alvarado Jennifer Gonzalez Juan Luna Eva Prado Gus Munoz Catherine Arntz Alicia Trevino Valerie Voeste Victoria S. Brown Herman Renaud Barbara Cline Gretchen Penny Carolyn Sue Yaklin Maria Garcia Grace M. Hooper Gladys Kirton Carlos Valdez William Flemmings ALTERNATE JUDGE Jovita Rossy Mrs. Nina Zepeda Mary G. Leos Teresa G. Rivera Carmen Gonzalez Valetina M. Torres Yolanda Pantoja H. L. Polinard Lucia Lopez Terry Almaguer Ramona Soliz Patty Garcia Gloria Boutte Marguerita Benavides Claribel Stensland Gary Tumlinson Dora Renaud Dianne Fleming Louise Coleman Larry DeVille Ernest Garcia Eleanor McKinney La Verne Jones Minnie Rodriguez Myrtle Bell PRECINCT JUDGE ALTERNATE JUDGE 99 E.F. Bennett Domingo Barron 100 Rhoda Cavin Camille Till 101 Grace Falcon Margaret Wilke * 103 Dorene Cramer Alberto Garcia 106 June Gildersleeve Delilah Lopez * 107 & *23 Guadalupe Salinas Jose Abrego 109 Sarah V. Zuniga Claudia Cantu 110 Bernice Martini Ray Martini *111 Lydia Mendoza J. R. Garean 112 N. Jean Swenson Sylvia Wilson 113 Clarice Lott Rosario Calderon 114 & *15 Alma Lee Harris Gertrude Stewart 115 Nancy Stevens June Middleton 116 Blanche Hook Irene Kubala 117 George Farquhar K. Megan Busch 118 Pat Cardona Dora Casares 119 Kay Viles Lynn Kutch 120 & 91 Alfred Heese, Jr. William R. Payne 121 Oscar Reyna Sulema G. Reyna 122 & *26 Cindy Garcia Christie Ramirez