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Home My WebLink About023559 ORD - 02/16/1999AN ORDINANCE GOVERNING CITY ELECTIONS IN 1999, 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 1999 and other City elections may be scheduled at other times in 1999; 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 1999. SECTION 2. Presiding Judges and alternates Presiding Judges are appointed as specified in attached Exhibit A, which is incorporated therein (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. Arturo 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. 3559 SECTION 8. Compensation for persons appointed in or pursuant to this ordinance shall be: a. Appointment under Section 2 and 3: Presiding Judge and Altemate Presiding Judge shall be compensated at $6.00 per hour for services rendered; election clerks who are not City employees shall be compensated at $5.15 per hour for services rendered, subject to Section 32.091; $25.00 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 for training for Presiding and Alternate Judges. Overtime shall be paid as per Fair Labor Standards Act. b. Appointments under Section 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, 1999, 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 fins that such emergency and necessity do exist, and IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the ATTEST: City Secretary day of February, 1999. enK.------X. ladc___ Mayor The City of Corpus Christi APPROVED: 11 DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1999 JAMES R. BRAY, JR., CITY ATTORNEY By f� • CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI GENERAL ELECTION — APRIL 3, 1999 PRECINCT JUDGE ALTERNATE JUDGE 1 Doug Stone Fay Anderson 2 Dorothy Corcoran Pat Rimar 3 Joe Yowell Roberto Joya 4 Estela Mejia Lee Ann McCleery 5 Leloise Green Christine Struzick 6 Stephen Avery Julia Wilkey 7 Rosalinda Rodela Robert Rodela 8 Betty Shockley Mary Ellen Henderson *9 Angelica Flores Sara Campos 17 Nicolas Horak Margarita Horak 18 Wanda Traweek Billy Traweek 20 Barbarita Temes Blanca Vasques 21 Jack Humphries Marie Koch 24 Richard Hardy Norma Perez 29 &* 16 Rex Medina Cecil Henry 30 Ardelia Price Lavella Coleman 31 Veronica V. Leal Mario E. Leal 32 Sue Williams Chris Semptner 33 Lodia Villegas Wilmer Davis *34 Maria Hinijosa Lucia Bentacourt 38 Ruth Tryon Marie Alemon 39 Delia Salazar Gloria Perez *40 & *19 Arm Alexander Nancy Smith PRECINCT JUDGE ALTERNATE JUDtst 41 Jesse Hix Elisa Pons 42 Phyllis Lewis Virginia Wenzell 43 Mary Sugarek Estefana Peters 44 Gloria Garcia Belia Canales 45 & 46 Gabriel Rivas III Mary Lou Rivas 47 John Luna Ida Galvan 48 Mrs. Jimmy Mosier Mrs. Donald Gibson 49 Elma Corkill Estela Salinas 50 & 59 Jay Cazalas Pella Cazalas *51 C.E. Ginn, Sr. Mable Ginn 53 Blanche M. De Los Santos Elizabeth De Los Santos 56 Ruth Olson Juanita Lopez 57 Marilyn Dow Kathy Carter 58 Patsy Sparkman Mary Coons 60 Flora Holmes Virginia Escamilla 61 & 77 Lillie White Mrs. Amy Coleman 62 Manuela Villarreal Enrique Almaraz 63 Antonia Mercado Joe Priour 64 Mody Boatright Frances Boatright 65 Billy Johnson Virginia Rankin 66 William Redfox Dick Brown 67 Minerva Leal -Gayton Howard Stephen Garcia 68 Vera Beaver Jean Armstrong 69 Andrew W. Ordner J.O. Spencer 70 Joan Veith Gerald Towle PRECINCT JUDGE ALTERNATE JUDGE 71 & 95 Adela Soto Viola Van Houten 72 Pearline Dlabaja Jovita Rossy 73 M.R. Zepeda Mrs. Nina Zepeda 74 Olga M. Gonzales Margaret Palacios 75 Aurora Castillo Laura Duran 76 Dolores O'Riley Carmen Gonzales 78 Welder Brown Yolanda Pantoja 79 & 52 Adela R. Alvarado H.L. Polinard 80 Lucy Lopez Bonita Garza 82 & 81 Eva Prado Ramona Soliz 83 Gus Munoz Patty Garcia 84 Gerardo Alvarez Gloria Alvarez 85 Alice Trevino Aurora Cantu 86 Valerie Voeste Mark Schwartz 87 Victoria Brown Richard Brassington 88 Herman Renaud Dora Renaud 89 Barbara Cline Roy Corkill 90 Gretchen Penny Louise Coleman 92 Carolyn Sue Yaklin Fernando Garza 93 Maria Garcia Ernest Garcia 94 Guadalupe Salinas Amelia Rodriguez 96 Leticia Rivera Maria Montes 97 Carlos Valdez Minnie Rodriguez 98 William Flemmings Myrtle Bell 99 E.F. Bennett Gasper MirJon PRECINCT JUDGE ALTERNATE JUDGE 100 Louisa Del Toro Ramiro Escobar 101 Leslie Plum Blanca Vasquez *103 Dorene Cramer Alberto Garcia 106 June Gildersleeve Paul Eubanks *107 & *23 Gracie Paloma Floyd Schrott 109 Sarah Zuniga Claudia Cantu 110 Bernice Martini Ray Martini *111 Lydia Mendoza J.R. Sharum 112 N. Jean Swenson Sylvia Wilson 113 Clarice Lott Alicia Garcia 114 & *15 Alma Harris Gertrude Stewart 115 Nancy Stevens Janet Reimer 116 Maria Castillo Raul Castillo 117 Allen Torres James Betts 118 Pat Cardona Dora Casares 119 Kay Viles Joyce Zarsky 120 & 19 Alfred Hesse William Payne 121 Oscar Reyna Sulema Reyna 122 & *26 Cindy Garcia Christi Ramirez 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 meetings: I/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: Samuel L. Neal, Jr. �� Litt l� Javier Colmenero Melody Cooper Alex L. Garcia, Jr. Dr. Arnold Gonzales Betty Jean Longoria John Longoria Edward A. Martin Dr. David McNichols 023.559