HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1500 - calling election for 5/6/1995
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1500
AN ORDINANCE CALLING AN ELECTION WITHIN TIIE CITY OF WEST
UNIVERSITY PLACE, TEXAS FOR TIIE SIXTII (6TII) DAY OF MAY, 1995,
FOR TIIE PURPOSE OF ELECTING A MAYOR AND FOUR COUNCIL
MEMBERS; DESIGNATING PRECINCTS AND POLLING PLACES;
APPOINTING ELECTION OFFICIALS; CONTAINING FINDINGS AND
OTIIER PROVISIONS RELATED TO SAID ELECTION; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY TIIE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST
UNIVERSITY PLACE, TEXAS:
SECTION I. A general election is hereby ordered and shall be held in the
City of West University Place. Texas. ("City") on Saturday, the 6th day of May,
1995, for the purpose of electing a Mayor and (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, punch-card ballot labels and early voting
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 in the space provided adjacent to the name of that candidate.
( c) The City Council hereby appoints a Presiding Judge, Gene De
Laveaga 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 Kaylynn Holloway 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 3, 1995 at 4:00 p.m. in the
Council Chambers at the Municipal Building, 3800 University Boulevard,
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 place 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:
Voting Precinct #183
West University Community Building/Senior Wing
6104 Auden
Lorinda Driskill, Presiding Judge
Jason Hadley, Alternate Presiding Judge
Voting Precinct #133
Colonial Park Recreation Center
4130 Byron
Hazel Pitts, Presiding Judge
H. K. Pitts, Alternate Presiding Judge
Voting Precinct #87
West University Scout House
6108 Edloe
Cindy Hassler, Presiding Judge
Rich Langenstein, Alternate Presiding Judge
Voting Precinct # 15
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
5308 Buffalo Speedway
Burt Ballanfant, Presiding Judge
Ramsay Elder, Alternate Presiding Judge
(b) Said precincts shall be the same as the Harris County voter
precincts bearing the same numbers indicated above, as such precincts were most
recently established by the Commissioners Court of Harris County, Texas.
(c) Each Presiding Judge shall appoint not fewer than two and not
more than five qualified clerks to serve and assist at the polling place under his/her
jurisdiction in holding said election; provided that, if any Presiding Judge herein
appointed actually serves in holding said election, the Alternate Presiding Judge
for the precinct in question shall be one of the clerks.
I:
(d) On election day, the polls shall be open from 7:00 A.M. to 7:00
P.M.
(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 through Friday, April 17,
1995 through May 2, 1995, in accordance with the provisions of the TEXAS
ELECTION CODE, which address shall also be the early voting clerk's mailing
address to which ballot applications and ballots voted by mail may be sent. The
early voting clerk is the City Secretary of the City. Applications for
ballots by mail must be received no later than the close of business on Friday,
April 28, 1995. For purposes of processing early voting results, the precinct
election officers serving Precinct #15 shall serve as the Early Voting Ballot Board
for this election.
SECTION 4: All qualified electors of the City shall be permitted to vote
at said election. Not withstanding any provisions to the contrary in this ordinance,
this election shall be held and conducted 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.
SECTION 5: The form of the notice prescribed by the Secretary of State's
Office of the State of Texas shall serve as proper notice of said election. Said
notice, including a Spanish translation thereof, shall be given by publishing it and
posting it in accordance with Section 4.003, of the TEXAS ELECTION CODE.
SECTION 6: The Mayor, the Mayor Pro Tern, the City Manager, the City
Secretary and the Assistant City Secretary, or anyone of them, are authorized on "
behalf of the City Council to evidence adoption of this Ordinance and to do any
and all other things legal and necessary in connection with 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, section or
other part of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or
circumstance, shall eVyr be held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of
competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this Ordinance and the application of
such word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, section or other part of this
Ordinance to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
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
II
I at which this ordinance was discussed, considered or acted upon was given in the
manner required by the Open Meetings Law, as amended, and that each such
meeting has been open to the public as required by law at all times during such
discussion, consideration and action. The City Council ratifies, approves and
confirms such notices and the contents and posting thereof.
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 immediately upon adoption and
signature.
PASSED AND APPROVED ON FIRST AND FINAL READING, this the
27th day of Februarv, 1995
Voting Aye:
Voting Nay:
Absent:
Signed:
~~
Bill Watson
Mayor
ATTEST:
AP~~~
James . Dougherty, Jr.
City Attorney
aylynn Holloway
City Secretary
(SEAL)
I
I
II