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Home My WebLink About024376 ORD - 02/20/2001AN ORDINANCE GOVERNING CITY ELECTIONS IN 2001, 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 2001 and other City elections may be scheduled at other times in 2001; and WHEREAS, such elections should be conducted efficiently and 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 2001. SECTION 2. Presiding Judges and Alternate Presiding Judges are appointed as specified in attached Exhibit A, which is incorporated therein (Texas Election Code, Section 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 (Texas Election Code, Sections 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 (Texas Election Code, Section 87.002), and Presiding Judge of the Central Counting Station (Texas Election Code, Section 127.005). SECTION 4. Armando Chapa, City Secretary is appointed Manager of the Central Counting Station (Texas Election Code, Section 127.002). SECTION 5. Diana Barrera, Deputy County Clerk is appointed Tabulation Supervisor of the Central Counting Station (Texas Election Code, Section 127.003). SECTION 6. Norma Marshall is appointed Assistant to the Tabulation Supervisor (Texas Election Code, Section 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. 0243?6 SECTION 8. Compensation for persons appointed in or pursuant to this Ordinance shall be: Appointment under Sections 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 $5.15 per hour for services rendered; subject to Texas Election Code, 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 (Texas Election Code, Section 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. Appointments under Sections 4 and 7: No additional compensation to City salary. Appointments under Section 5 and 6: No additional compensation to Nueces County salaries. (These services will be part of services furnished by Nueces County) d. Any City employee: No additional compensation 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. 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. SECTION 12. If for any roason 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 ordnance, for it is the definite intent of the 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 election 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 2001, 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..~m~.rgency and necessity do exist, and IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the ~(~Jr~ay of February, 2001. ATTEST: City Secret~ APPROVED: /~ DAYOF FEBRUARY, 2001 JAMES R. BRAY, JR., CITY A'I-FORNEY 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; INVe, therefore, 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 THE CITY OF CORPU~ Javier D. Colmenero Melody Cooper The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Samuel L. Neal, Jr. ~{~ Henry Garrett Arnold Gonzales Rex A. Kinnison Beffy Jean Longoria John Longoria Mark Scoff 024376 CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI GENERAL ELECTION - APRIL 7, 2001 ATTACHMENT "A" PRECINCT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 *9 17 18 20 21 24 29 & '16 30 31 32 33 *34 38 39 JUDGE Mildred Ashmore Dorothy Corcoran Joe M. Yowell Lee Ann McCleery Leloise Green Stephen R. Avery Rosalinda Rodela Betty Shockley Sara Campos Margarita Horak Pat Beseda Barbarita Temes Thomas Gibson Maria Guerra Herman Renaud Louella Coleman Veronica V. Leal Jean Herpick Lodia Sally Villegas Maria Hinojosa Ruth Mae Tryon Delia G. Salazar ALTERNATE JUDGE Carolyn Jenson Pat Rimar Ron Thedford Estela Meija Christine Stmzick Julia Wilke Sylvia Hinojosa Mary Henderson Elida Ceballos Gisela Becker Cindy Garcia Esmeralda Martinez Emily Hajek Janie McManus Dora Renaud Peggy Beasley Mario Leal Thomas Fugua Wilmer Davis Lucia Bentacourt Geraldine Woods Gloria Perez PRECINCT *40 & '19 41 42 43 44 45 & 46 47 48 49 50 & 59 '51 53 56 57 58 60 61 & 77 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 JUDGE Ann Alexander Jesse Hix Phyllis Lewis Mary B. Sugarek Gloria Garcia Gabriel Rivas Juan Luna Betty Mosier Elma Corkill Pelagia Cazalas C.E. Ginn, Sr. Blanche De Los Santos Ruth C. Olson Marilyn R. Dow Patsy Sparkman Mary Rivera Lillie M. White Manuela Villarreal Antonia M. Mercado Mody Boatright William (Billy) Johnson W.W. Redfox Minerva Leal-Gaytan Verda Beaver Andrew W. Ordner Sandra Harris ALTERNATE JUDGE Nancy Smith Mary Hem Virginia Wenzell Estefana S. Peters Lula Stephan Mary Lou Rivas Teresa Almaguer Mrs. Donald Gibson Larry Bell Lila Huling Mable C. Ginn Elizabeth De Los Santos Ken Gandy David O. Dow Mary Coons Angie Estrada Shirley Stanum Henry Almaraz Genevieve Gonzalez Frances Boatright J.C. Barcklow Mary Jane Schroeder Howard Stephen Garcia Jean Armstrong J.O. Spencer Jean Harris PRECINCT 71 & 95 72 73 74 75 76 78 79 & 52 80 81 & 82 83 84 85 86 87 89 90 92 93 94 96 97 98 99 JUDGE Adela Soto Jovita Rossy M.R. Zepeda Olga M. Gonzales Aurora Castillo Mario Gomez Yolanda Pantoja Adela Alvarado Mary N. Garcia Eva L. Prado Gus Munoz Gerardo R. Alvarez Joe Ray Gonzales Valerie Voeste Victoria S. Brown Barbara Cline Gretchen Penny Carolyn Sue Yaklin Maria Garcia Lesley Nolen Frances Thompson Carlos Valdez Willie B. Flemmings E.'F. Bennett ALTERNATE JUDGE Viola Van Houten James Rossy Nina Zepeda Margaret Palacios Laura Duran Santiago Guzman Carol Cavazos Mrs H.L. Polinard Valentina M. Torres Romana H. Soliz Patty Garcia Gloria P. Alvarez Olga Davila Mark Schwartz Richard Brassington Roy Corkill Louise Coleman Femando Garza Ernest Garcia Christine Salem Delores Koutz Minnie Rodriguez Gloria G. Gonzales D.E. Barron PRECINCT 100 101 103 106 '107 & *23 109 I10 *111 112 113 114 & '15 115&88 116 117 118 119 120 & 91 121 122 & *26 JUDGE Mafia Luisa Del Toro Nora West Natalie Holder June A. Gilbersleeve Martha Burke Sarah V. Zuniga Delores Dees Becky Penglase Norma Jean Swenson Clafice Lott Alma Lee Harris Nancy Stevens Bernadette Baggerly Allan Torres Pat Cardona Joyce Zarsky Alfred Hesse Oscar H. Reyna Krystyna Lynch ALTERNATE JUDGE Ramiro Escobar Floyd Schroat Kiwan Henderson Paul Eubanks Peggy Hansen Claudia Canto Grace Urbanec Barbara Penglase Sylvia Wilson Alicia P. Garcia Gertrude Stewart Hubbard Janet Reimers Helen Clark James Betts Dora Casares Linda Finch Robert Jones Sulema G. Reyna Joyce Smith