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Home My WebLink AboutORD 1392 - election of officials 003 ORDINANCE NUMBER 1392 AN ORDINANCE CALLING AN ELECTION WITHIN THE CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE, TEXAS, FOR THE FOURTH (4TH) DAY OF MAY, 1991, 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. A general election is hereby ordered and shall be held in the City of West University Place, Texas, ("City") on Saturday, the 4th day of May, 1991, for the purpose of electing a Mayor and four (4) Council Members of said city. SECTION 2. (a) An electronic voting system and punch-card ballots shall be used for such election, and absentee voting shall be by use of paper ballots for absentee voting by personal appearance and by mail. (b) Punch-card ballots and punch-card ballot labels and absentee ballots for the general election shall be prepared in accordance with 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 (or appropriate mark, in the case of a paper ballot) in the space provided adjacent to the name 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 Manager of the Central Counting Station and Audrey Nichols as Tabulation Supervisor for the election. Said appointments are made for this election only. (d) The appropriate election officials shall conduct a test of the automatic tabulating equipment on Wednesday, May I, 1991, at 3 o.clock P.M. in the Conference Room 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: " 1 ( , 'I -: - :;'j11'. inance Number 1392 <1 Voting Precinct #183 West University Community Building 6104 Auden Bond Blackman, Jr., Presiding Judge Sally McCandless. Alternate Presiding Judge Votinq Precinct #133 Colonial Park Recreation Center 41 School John B. Hurst, Presiding Ju Joan Worley, Alternate Presi Judge Voting Precinct #15 St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church 5308 Bu 10 Speedway Burt Ballanfant. Presiding Judge Ramsay Elder. Alternate Presiding Judge (b) id precincts shall be the same as the Harris County voter precincts bearing the same rs indicated above, as such precincts were most recently established by the Commissioners Court of Harris County, Texas. (c) h Presiding Ju shall appoint not fewer than two not more n five qualified clerks to serve assist at polling place under his/her jurisdiction in holding said election; provided that, if any Presiding Judge herein appoin actually serves in holding said election, Alternate Presidi Judge for the precinct i question shall be one of the clerks. (d) On election day, the polls shall be open 7:00 P.M. 7:00 A.M. (e) Absentee voting by personal appearance shall be condu the Ci retary's office, Municipal Building, Universi Houston Texas 77005, during the hours the City Secretary's main siness 0 ce is regularly opened for business, 8:00 a.m. to 5: p.m., Monday through Friday, April 15 through April 30,1991, in accordance with the provisions the TEXAS ELECTI CODE, which address shall also be the absentee voting clerk's mailing ss to which llot applications and ballots voted by mail be sent. The absentee voting clerk is the Ci Secretary of the City. lications r ballots by mail must be received no later than close at Blvd. , 2 Ordinance Number 13 ;) business absentee en tee Judge of least on Fri day. Apri 1 ,1991. For purposes of process i ng voting results, an Absentee llot Board shall canvass the llots. Terri Grainger is hereby appointed Presiding Absentee Ballot Board for this election and shall appoint two other members in accordance with the XAS ELECTI CODE. SECTION 4: All qualified electors of the City s permitted to vote at said election. Not withstandin the contrary in this ordinance, this election shall conducted in accordance with the TEXAS ION CODE, ui by law, all election materials i inted in both English a Spanish. provisions to d and and, as s s ha 11 be SECTION 5: The of the notice prescri by the Secreta of State's Office of the State of Texas shall serve as proper notice of said election. Said notice, including a S ish transla on thereof, s 1 be given publishin it pas ing it in accordance wi tion 4.003, the CODE. S ION 6: City Secreta are authori this inance in connection wi give effect to the Pro Tem, the Ci , the ty See or anyone of them Council to evi nee adoption of al other things 1 1 and necessary holding consummation of such election and to intent of this Ordinance. ION 7: If any wo ,phrase, cl ause, sentence, paragraph, section or other part of this ordinance or the application thereof to person or circumstance, shall ever be held to be invalid or unconstitu anal by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remai this Ordinance and application of such wo , phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, section or other part is Ordinance to any other ons or circumstances shall not affected reby. SECTION 8: All 0 inances and parts of herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of inances in conflict confl i ct on ly. SECTION 9: The Ci Council officially fi . determines and declares that a sufficient written notice of the hour, place subject of each meeti at which this ordinance was discuss , considered or acted upon was given in the manner requi by the Open ngs Law, TEX. REV. CIV. STAT. ANN. art. 62 -17, as amended, that such meeting has been 0 to the lic as required by law at all times during such discussion, consideration action. The City Council ra fies, approves and rms such notices the con d posting thereof. 3 Ordinance Number 1392 , o 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 take effect and be in force immediately from and after its passage. PASSED AND APPROVED ON FIRST AND FINAL READING, this 11th day of Februar1 1991. Voting I\ye: Voting No. Absent: Signed: Laura--'C. Higley, Mayor ATTEST: Audrey Nichols Ci ty Secretary Approved as to Form: (SEAL) James L. O.oI:Tgherty, Jr. City Attorney 4