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Home My WebLink AboutORD 1454 - ORD Calling Election 1st day fof May 1993 ORDINANCE NUMBER 1454 I I' AN ORDINANCE CALLING AN ELECTION WITHIN THE CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE, TEXAS, FOR THE FIRST (1ST) DAY OF MAY, 1993, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING A MAYOR AND FOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS; DESIGNATING PRECINCTS AND POLLING PLACES; APPOINTING ELECTION OFFICIALS; CONTAINING FINDINGS AND OTHER PROVISIONS RELATED TO SAID ELECTION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE, TEXAS: SECTION 1. ^ general election is hereby ordered and shall be I held in the City of West University Place, Texas, ("City") on Saturday, II the 1st day of May, 1993, for the purpose of electing a Mayor and four I, (4) Council Members of said city. SECTION 2. (a) An electronic voting system and punch-card ballots shall be used for such election. (b) Punch-card ballots and punch-card ballot labels and early voting ballots for the general election shall be prepared in accordance Iwith the applicable provisions of the TEXAS ELECTION CODE (in English and in Spanish) so that the voters may cast their ballots for the candidates of their choice by making a punch hole in the space provided adjacent to the ndme of that candidate. (c) The City Council hereby appoints a Presiding Judge, Gene DeLaveaga, for the Central Counting Station, which for purposes of this election shall be located at the West University Place Municipal '\ Building, 3800 University Boulevard. Victor Hansen shall serve as the I Manager of the Central Counting Station and Kaylynn Holloway as I, Tabulation Supervisor for the election. Said appointments are made for I this election only. I I (d) The appropriate election officials shall conduct a test of I the automatic tabulating equipment on Thursday, April 29, 1993 at 3:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at the Municipal Building, 3800 University Blvd., Houston, Texas 77005, open to the public. SECTION 3. (a) The City shall be divided into four election precincts for the concurrent elections, and the polling places designated for each election precinct and the persons hereby appointed to serve, for this election only, as Presiding Judge and Alternate Presiding Judge for each polling place, are as follows: II I I II I , I, I, I Ordinance Number 1454 ,I I, I Voting Precinct #183 West University Community Building 6104 Auden Laura West, Presiding Judge Roberta Stokes, Alternate Presiding Judge I I Voting Precinct #133 Colonial Park Recreation Center 4130 Byron Hazel Pitts, Presiding Judge H. K. Pitts, Alternate Presiding Judge I I, I , Voting Precinct #87 West University Elementary School 3756 University Blvd. I, John B. Hurst, Presiding Judge Peggy Pentecost, Alternate Presiding Judge Voting Precinct #15 St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church 5308 Buffalo Speedway Burt BJllanfant, Presiding Judge Ramsay Elder, Alternate Presiding Judge (b) Said precincts shall be the same as the Harris County voter I precincts bearing the same numbers indicated above, as such precincts "were most recently established by the Commissioners Court of Harris I County, Texas. (c) Each Presiding Judge shall appoint not fewer than two and not I more than five qualified clerks to serve and assist at the polling II place under his/her jurisdiction in holding said election; provided !Ithat, if any Presiding Judge herein appointed actually serves in liholding said election, the Alternate Presiding Judge for the precinct I in question shall be one of the clerks. I I (d) On election day, the polls shall be open from 7:00 A.M. to 17:00 P .~1. , (e) Early voting by personal appearance shall be conducted at the City Secretary's office, Municipal Building, 3800 University Blvd., Houston, Texas 77005, during the hours the City Secretary's main business office is regularly opened for business, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday, April 12,1993 through Tuesday, April 27,1993, in accordance with the provisions of the TEXAS ELECTION CODE, which I address shall also be the early voting clerk's mailing address to which II ballot applications and ballots voted by mail may be sent. The early II voting clerk is the City Secretary of the City. Applications for ,I I , I II 2 I I Ordinance Number 1454 Iballots by mail must be received no later than the close of business on I Friday, April 23, 1993. I (f) Early voting will also be held on Saturday, April 24, 1993 Ilfrom 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Municipal Building, 3800 University ,IBoulevard, Houston, Texas 77005. Ii II SECTION 4: All qualified electors of the City shall be , permitted to vote at said election. Not withstanding any provisions to I the contrary in this ordinance, this election shall be held and l'lconducted in accordance with the TEXAS ELECTION CODE, and, as may be required by law, all election materials and proceedings shall be printed in both English and Spanish. II I SECTION 5: The form of the notice prescribed by the Secretary lof State's Oftice of the State of Texas shall serve as proper notice of said election. Said notice, including a Spanish translation thereof, 'I shall be given ~y publishing it and posting it in accordance with ISection 4.003, ot the TEXAS ELECTION CODE. I SECTION 6: The Mayor, the Mayor Pro Tem, the City Manager, the : City Secretary and the Assistant City Secretary, or anyone of them, rlare authorized on behalf of the City Council to evidence adoption of I this Ordinance and to do any and all other things legal and necessary in connection \lith the holding and consummation of such election and to ,give effect to the intent of this Ordinance. SECTION 7: If any word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, I section or other part of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, shall ever be held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder I of this Ordinance and the application of such word, phrase, clause, I sentence, paragraph, section or other part of this Ordinance to any lother persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. , , 1'1 SECTION 8: All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of the conflict only. SECTION 9: The City Council officially finds, determines and declares that a sufficient written notice of the date, hour, place and subject of each meeting at which this ordinance was discussed, , considered or acted upon was given in the manner required by the Open I Meetings Law, TEX. REV. CIV. STAT. ANN. art. 6252-17, as amended, and that each such meeting has been open to the public as required by I[law at all times during such discussion, consideration and action. The I City Council ratifies, approves and confirms such notices and the I contents and posting thereof. I I Section 10. The public importance of this measure and the requirements of the law create an emergency and an urgent public necessity requiring that this Ordinance be passed and take effect as an emergency measure, and a state of emergency is hereby declared, and this Ordinance is accordingly passed as an emergency measure and shall II take effect and be in force immediately from and after its passage. I I II 3 Ordinance Number 1454 I Ii II I ,day PASSED AND l\Pf'ROVED ON FIRST AND FINAL READING, this of E~,6J? ~q.-J~' 1993. ;23~ I ,I Voting Aye: Voting Nay: Absent: Signed: II ,. 1^~-1;-~ Itlhi tt F. Johnso Mayor , ATTEST: v //'/ b ~~ ~r nn Holloway See reta ry L' (SEAL) Jr. I, II I I ;1 , I " 4