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Home My WebLink About028999 ORD - 03/22/2011ORDINANCE GOVERNING CITY ELECTIONS IN 2011, INCLUDING APPOINTMENT AND COMPENSATION OF ELECTION OFFICIALS, VOTING SYSTEMS, AND CENTRAL COUNTING STATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, regular City Council elections are scheduled for May 2011 and other City elections may be scheduled at other times in 2011; and WHEREAS, such elections must be conducted efficiently and in accordance with the Texas Election Code; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, THAT: SECTION 1. This ordinance governs all City of Corpus Christi elections during the calendar year 2011. SECTION 2. The Presiding Judges and Alternate Judges specified in the attached and incorporated Exhibit A are appointed pursuant to 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 must be the Precinct's Alternate Presiding Judge, pursuant to Texas Election Code, Sections 32.031, 32.032 and 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. Buck Sosa is appointed Presiding Judge of the Early Voting Ballot Board pursuant to Texas Election Code, Section 87.002, and Presiding Judge of the Central Counting Station pursuant to Texas Election Code, Section 127.005. SECTION 4. Armando Chapa, City Secretary is appointed Manager of the Central Counting Station pursuant to Texas Election Code, Section 127.002. SECTION 5. Simon Saenz, III, Nueces County, Deputy County Clerk is appointed Tabulation Supervisor of the Central Counting Station pursuant to Texas Election Code, Section 127.003. SECTION 6. Rochelle Limon, Nueces County Elections and Archives Manager is appointed Assistant to the Tabulation Supervisor pursuant to Texas Election Code, Section 127.004. 028999 INDEXED SECTION 7. City Secretary Armando Chapa is appointed the authority who is responsible for the conduct of City elections including training and is directed to make all necessary arrangements to lawfully conduct elections. SECTION 8. Compensation for persons appointed in or pursuant to this Ordinance is: a. Appointments under Sections 2 and 3: Each Presiding Judge and Alternate Presiding Judge must be compensated at $8.00 per hour for services rendered; election clerks who are not City employees must be compensated at $8.00 per hour for services rendered, subject to Texas Election Code, Section 32.091; $25.00 must be paid to election judge or clerk for delivering precinct election records, judge booth controller, or other election equipment, and unused election supplies after the election pursuant to Texas Election Code, Section 32.092; Presiding Judges, Alternate Judges, early voting clerks and deputy voting clerks will be compensated for attending the required training program at a rate not to exceed $8.00 an hour, pursuant to Texas Election Code, Section 32.112. Overtime must be paid as per Fair Labor Standards Act. b. Appointments under Section 4 and 7: No additional compensation to City salary. c. Appointments under Section 5 and 6: No additional compensation to Nueces County salaries. These services are part of services furnished by Nueces County. d. No additional compensation to City employee salary. Overtime must be paid as per the City Compensation and Classification Policy and the 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. The Nueces County Courthouse is designated as the sole Central Counting Station for early vote tabulation. SECTION 11. if for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance is held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, it may not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is 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 12. That upon written request of the Mayor or five Council members, copy attached, the City Council (1) finds and declares an emergency due to the need for immediate action necessary for the efficient and effective administration of City affairs and (2) suspends the Charter rule that requires consideration of and voting upon ordinances at two regular meetings so that this ordinance massed and take effect upon first reading as an emergency measure this the 4? day of March 2011. ATTEST: Armando Chapa City Secretary APPROVED: Dated this the 14 THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI Joe A ame Mayor day of March, 2011 Carlos Valdez City Attorney Corpus Christi, Texas 4'< day of March, 2011 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, 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, ,etea4tewea Joe Ad me, Mayor City of Corpus Christi Council Members The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Joe Adame vC Chris Adler Larry Elizondo Kevin Kieschnick /412L - John G John E. Marez Priscilla Leal Nelda Martinez Mark Scott Linda Strong /4-,66e,r( 028999 PRECINCT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 21 24 & 60 26 29 30 32 33 34 CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI GENERAL ELECTION - MAY 14, 2011 UDGE Sharon Pope Jennifer Dragoo Robert Andreas Phillip Yarbrough Wayne Williams Douglas Bynum Trini Garcia Barbara Behr Anita Cates Sharon Hughes Natalie Olsson Maria Gonzalez Pat Beseda Victor Bird Betty Black William Creacy Sam Dalton Joseph Alley Jerrilyn Moore Kelly Harlan Lodia Sally Villegas Yolanda M. Landin ATTACHMENT "A" ALTERNATE JUDGE Suzanne Cramer Maria Rivera Benson Gilbert Hernandez Audelia Longoria Jerald Sanders Barbara Sellers Alonzo Garcia Sheryl Behr Peggy Bickham Yolanda Emory Eva Alvarado Nicolasa Clark Irene Smith Joe Bomarito Wendy Pizzo Anastacio Guartuche Jr. Helen Dalton Richard Alonzo Robert Day Joel Mumphord Randy Farrar Norine Bernson PRECINCT 38 39&31 40 41 43 & 83 44 45 & 46 47 48 49 & 111 50 & 59 51 53 56 57 58 62 & 85 63 & 42 & 86 64 65 66 67 68 69 & 87 70 & 89 71 & 95 72 UT DGE Valentina Sosa Dorothy Parkos James Chrobocinski Jesse Hix Pete Anzaldua Jimmy Barrientes Belia Alaniz Laurie Roussel Glenn Ellen Dreggors Janie Pena Irma Guerra Eddie Ginn David F. Pena Ken Gandy Olga Bell Kay Lund Fisher Frances Brown Antonia M. Mercado Mody Boatright Gerald Cheetham Eric Herman Linda Barriger Linda Rodela Anne Bauman Joan Veith Adela Soto Stephanie Wenzler ALTERNATE JUDGE Judy Curtis Frank Parkos Louise Gazan Sylvia Villarreal Gus Munoz Martha Garza Mary Chavez Ida Worden Georgie Marsh Rosa Marinez Mary Morrin Mable Ginn M. Riviera Juanita L. Arriaga Edith Larson Dorothy Vaught Joe Ray Gonzales Sherri Roussel Frances Boatright Judy Landress Sheresa Mullines Jackie Craig Loretta Gomez Keith Hammons Rosa Solis Belinda Pompa Irene Trejo PRECINCT 73 74 75 76 77&61 78 79 & 52 UT DGE Virginia Torres Margaret Palacios Rose Mary Martinez Rose Marie Martinez Shirley Stonum Yolanda Pantoja John Luna 80 Rose Duran 81 Carolyn Dorsey 82 Bryan McCool 84 Bea Marshall 90 Margarita Pineda Darryl Smith Carolyn Sue Yaklin Amelia Campos John Vaught 96 Brenda Ramirez 97 Carlos Valdez 98 Atilano Castro 99 Linda Cavazos 100 Yvonne Branstetter 101 Aubrey E. Bryan Cecelia Calloway June A. Gildersleeve Amy Hamilton Barbara Dunk 110 Patricia Franklin 91 92 93 & 114 94 103 106 107 & 23 109 ALTERNATE JUDGE Lisa Torres Christina Leal Jessica Acevedo Rudy Martinez Julia Rojas Cynde Wilson Robert Rodriguez Tina Castillo Dotson Lewis Max Maughan Mary Lou Cano Rosie Ramos Marsha Clodfelter Bonnie Johnson Jennifer Blanco Emilie Olivares Gayle Wayland Minnie Rodriguez Roseann Marchard Veronica Olsson Brenda Ramirez Beatrice Bryan Yolanda Martinez Mary Ramirez Katie Hill Lewis Douglas Yolanda Martinez PRECINCTU.T DGE ALTERNATE JUDGE 112 Ted Raub Wilson Wakefield 113 Harvey Stronum Ora B. Neal 115 & 88 Carolyn Buntrock Connie Gadd 116 Jackie Hodges Ruth Brionez 117 Pamela Allen Glenda Turner 118 Yolanda Romo Melton Bradford 119 Joyce Stroud Joyce Zarsky 120 W. R. Payne Esther Martinez 121 Maria Silva Maria M. Garcia 122 Nancy Hemphill Jerrod Towle 123 Dee Stokes Delores Dees 124 Vivian Towry Shirley Geiser 125 John Cardona Pat Cardona 126 Karen Frazier Scott Frazier • CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI CERTIFICATION OF FUNDS (City Charter Article IV, Sections 7 & 8) • I, the Director of Financial Services of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas (or his/her duly authorized representative), hereby certify to the City Council and other appropriate officers that the money • • required for the current fiscal year's portion of the contract, agreement, obligation or expenditure described below is in the Treasury to the credit of the Fund specified below, from which it is to be drawn, and has not been appropriated for any other purpose. Future payments are subject to annual appropriation by the City Council. City Council Action Date: March 22 2011 Agenda Item: Ordinance governing City elections in 2011, including appointment and compensation of election • officials, voting systems, and central counting station. Amount Required: $37,069 Fund Name General Total Account No. 530000 Certification Not Required 4J Director of Financi I Date: 31i-7 Fund No. 1020 Org. No. 10020 Project No. N/A Amount $37,069 $37,069