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Staff Report for a Resolution to Appropriate $67,954 in Additional Funds to Offset Increased Printing and Staffing Costs for the 2014 General Municipal Election from the General Fund Economic Uncertainty Reserve Fund Balance
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends the City Council appropriate $67,954 in additional funds to offset the increased costs for the November 4, 2014 General Municipal Election from the General Fund Economic Uncertainty Reserve Fund Balance.
BACKGROUND
The November 4, 2014 General Municipal Election for the City of San Leandro included three city council seats, the mayoral seat and two ballot measures. The adopted FY 2014-15 City budget included $110,000 to conduct the 2014 election.
For the November 2014 election the Alameda County Registrar of Voters (ROV) added four new languages (Hindi, Korean, Japanese and Khmer) to the original five (English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese and Tagalog) for translation of election materials. To accommodate the additional languages, the ROV increased its staff of bilingual trainers, proofers, translators, election support and poll workers to provide translation, polling and other service needs to the nine diverse language populations. These needs resulted in increased staffing costs to the County and also triggered a spike in printing costs, which included additional bilingual materials and signage for polling places.
Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) was implemented in 2010 and per the adopted memorandum of understanding between the City of San Leandro and the ROV, all licensing fees were deferred for the first three years. Consistent with that agreement, the licensing fee of $15,527.18 was assessed to the City of San Leandro for the first time after the 2014 election and is an on-going assessment.
Per the adopted memorandum of understanding between the City of San Leandro and Alameda County, San Leandro is one of three cities (including Berkeley and Oakland) who ...
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