CC RESOLUTION 46yf�a:
RESOLUTION liO. 46.
A RESOLU'ION 0=' T= BOARD 0_ TRUS EES
02 THE CI'_'Y OF EL SEGUNDO, CIZIFORIIIA, CALLING
AND GIVING IWICE OF '1HE 11OLDING OF A SPECII,L
INNICIPAL =CTION IN 6AID CITY TO BE HELD ON
JEDIIFSD� Y, ' HE 29th DAY 02 ROTUZZBER, 1922, FOR
THE PUI?P09E OF SUBITITTING TO THE ELECTORS OF
SAID CITY, All ORDINANCE Oi" 11L "ITY OF EL
SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, CREATING THE OFFICE OF
CITY MAITA.GER IN d,IID FOR THE SAID CITY, AND DE-
FINING Tiff: POWI -aiS AED DUTIES AIJD PROVIDIiG FOR
THE COI,,TENSATION OF SAID OFFICER.
VfF1EREA.S, a petition for the adoption of a certain
ordinance, said ordinance being in words and figures as
follows, to -wit:
it All ORDIU2Q,!CE OF `ilIl-] CITY OF EL
SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, CREATIIiG ' HE
OFFICE OF CITY L. '!AaER IN AIID FOR
THE SAID CITY, APD DITINING THE
PO ".dERS AND DUTIES, AND PROVIDING
FOR THE COIdPENSATION OF SAID OFFICER.
The people of the City of E1 Segundo do
ordain as follows;
SECTION 1. The office of City Manager of the
City of E1 Segundo, California, is hereby created
and established. Any person appointed City Manag-
er shall be a duly qualified and licensed Civil
Engineer. The City Manager shall be appointed by
the Board of Trustees of said City, and shall hold
office during the pleasure of said Board, Said
City Manager shall receive such compensation for
his services as the Board of Trustees shall from
time to time determine.
SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the City
Manager, and he shall have power:
1. To see that the laws and ordinances of
the City are enforced.
2. To exercise control over all of the de-
partments of the City and direct the work of all
appointive officers.
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3. To recommend to the Board of Trustees
persons to be employed and the employees to be
discharged.
4. To superintend the construction of all
public work within the said City.
5. To approve or disapprove the requisi-
tions for the purchase of any article or articles
for the said City, by any department or officer
before the purchase is made.
6. To attend all meetings of the Board of
Trustees and to recommend to the said Board for
adoption of such measures as he might deem nec-
essary or expedient.
7. To keep the Board of Trustees fully ad-
vised as to the financial conditions and needs
of the City.
8. To perform such other duties as may be
prescribed by ordinances or resolutions of the
Board of Trustees.
SEC�IUD 3. Any and all acts of the City
Manager performed under this ordinance shall be
subject to the approval and control of the Board
of Trustees of the City of E1 Segundo, and the
said Board shall have full power to correct and set
aside any action taken by them under this ordinance
whenever said Board shall deem it proper to do so;
and provided further that the legal department of
said City and the City Attorney are hereby excepted
from the operation of this ordinance.
SECTION 4. All officers and departments of the
said City, excepting in this ordinance otherwise
provided, are hereby declared to be subject to the
control of the said City Nanager, and no officer,
employee or department of said City shall incur any
indebtedness on behalf of said City until a requisi-
tion for the same shall have been first presented
to the City I4anager and shall have received his
approval. Any violation of this section shall ren-
der any person so violating subject to immediate
discharge from the employ of said City.
SECTION 5. All ordinances or parts of ordinan-
ces in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 6. This ordinance shall take effect
immediately upon its adoption."
was, on the 26th day of September, 1922, filed with the City
Clerk of said City by Frank J. K@ssels and others, and
1uTFMEAS; Thereafter and on the 5th day of October,
1922, the City Clerk attached to said petition his certifi-
cate, showing the same to be insufficient according to the
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laws of the State of California relating to initiative
petitions so far as number of signatures was concerned;
and
WHEREAS: Thereafter within the time prescribed
by law and on, to -wit, the 14th day of October, 1922, an
additional paper, a duplicate of the original petition
except as to the names signed, was filed with the City
Clerk; and
7lHIIVZ : The said original petition and said
additional paper or supplemental petition w" on the Pith
day of October, 1922, presented to and submitted to the
Board of Trustees of said City, together with the certifi-
cate of the City Clerk as to its sufficiency attached there-
to; and
?'FuuWAS: It appears from the final certificate
of the City-Clerk attached to said petition and said addi-
tional paper or supplemental petition attached to the
same, that the said petition consisting of two sections,
is signed by at least fifteen per cent of the qualified
electors of said City; and
WHEREAS: It further appears that said petition
by its terms requires that said ordinance shall be either
passed or adopted without alteration, or that the same be
submitted forthwith to a vote of the people of the said
City of El Segundo at a special election called for such
purpose, as provided by law; and
.HEREAS: The Board of Trustees deems that the
public - nterest and convenience will be subservecl by the
calling of a special election for the purpose of submitting
the question of the adoption of said proposed ordinance
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to the electors of said city.
NOW, THEREFORE, The Board of Trustees of the
City of E1 Segundo, California, do resolve, declare and
determine, as follows:
SECTION 1. That there shall be held in the
City of E1 Segundo, County of Los Angeles,
fornia, on Wednesday, the 29th day of Dove:
special municipal election for the purpose
to the electors of said City, the question
of said proposed ordinance by the electors
and that said proposition upon the ballots
said election shall be stated, as follows:
State of Cali -
nber, 1922, a
of submitting
of the adoption
of said City,
to be used at
"Shall the ordinance submitted to the i.....i.....i
Board of Trustees of the City of
E1 Segundo by initiative petition on : YES
the 17th day of October, 1922, entitled:
'An ordinance of the City of El Se- :.....:.....:
gundo, California, creating the office
of City Manager in and for the said NO
City, and defining the powers and
duties and providing for the compensa-
tion of said officer', be adopted ? ", ••••••:.....:
and notice of the time and place of holding said election
is hereby given.
SECTION 2. That the ballots to be used at said
election shall be, both as to form and as to matters con-
tained therein, such as may be required by law to be used
thereat, and the City Clerk is hereby directed to mail to
the qualified voters of said city in the manner and within
the time required by law, sample ballots, in the form and
containing the matter required by law to appear thereon,
enclosing with each sample ballot mailed, a card stating
the location of the precinct polling place of the elector
to whom said sample ballot was mailed, but a failure on the
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part of any elector to receive such sample ballot shall
not be held to invalidate the election or affect in any
manner the result thereof; and the City Clerk is hereby fur-
ther instructed and directed and authorized to procure
all supplies that may be necessary to properly and law-
fully conduct said special municipal election.
SECTION 3. That for the purpose of holding said
special municipal election, there shall be two voting
precincts within the said city, consisting of a consblida-
tion of the regular voting precincts established for hold-
ing general state and county elections, as follows:
Voting Precinct "A" shall be known as such and
shall include all of the territory in the City of El Se-
gundo, California, within the exterior boundaries of
E1 Segundo Precinct IYo. 1, as the same were fixed by the
Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles,
California, on the 29th day of December, 1921, and now
being of record in Book 78 -A of the minutes of the said
Board of Supervisors, reference to the same being hereby
expressly made for a more particular description of said
precinct, and the said exterior boundaries forming the
exterior boundaries of the territory included within said
E1 Segundo Precinct No. 1 shall be and constitute, and the
same are hereby designated as the exterior boundaries of
said Voting Precinct 'W'.
That the polling place in said Voting Precinct
"A" shall be in the basement of the Methodist Church,
on the northeast corner of Mariposa Avenue and Main Street,
within the said city, and the Board of Election to conduct
the said election in said Voting Precinct "A" shall be,
and the same is hereby appointed as follows:
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Inspector: Thomas Levi Tuck,
Judges: Frederick Ii. Duley
0. H. Barber,
Clerks: E. L. Munger
Mrs. Dorms. U. Stephens
Firs. Violet Thurston
Consolidated Voting Precinct "B" shall be known
as such and shall include all of the territory in the City
of E1 Segundo, California, within the exterior boundaries
of E1 Segundo City Precinct ito. 2 and E1 Segundo City Pre-
cinct No. 3, as the same were fixed by the Board of Super-
visors of the County of Los .Angeles, California, on the 29th
day of December, 1921, and now being of Record in Book 78 -A
of the minutes of the said Board of Supervisors, reference
to the same being hereby expressly made for a more particu-
lar description of said precincts, and the said exterior
boundaries forming the exterior boundaries of the territory
included within said E1 Segundo City Precincts Nos. 2 and 3
shall be and constitute, and the same are hereby designated
as the exterior boundaries of said Consolidated Voting Pre-
cinct "B ", said El Segundo City Precincts Uos. 2 and 3 being
hereby consolidated for the purpose of holding said election.
That the polling place in said Consolidated Voting
Precinct "B" shall be in the Council Chamber of the City Hall
of the City of E1 Segundo, California, at the northwest cor-
ner of Franklin Avenue and Richmond Street, within said City,
and the Board of Election to conduct the election in said
Consolidated Voting Precinct "B" shall be, and the same is
hereby appointed as follows:
Inspectors Ivan U. Larsen
Judges: Claud A. Manson
John 0. Fitzgerald
Clarks: Jilliam C. Grimes
Mrs. Effie R. Magee
:,:rs. Mary B. Rogers
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All of the persons hereiabefore named are hereby ap-
pointed as such officers respectively, and their compensa-
tion is hereby fixed at the sum of Eight Dollars (?8.00)
each for said election.
SECTION 4. That at said
tion, the polls shall be opened at
the day of said election and shall
o'clock P. .S. of the said day when
except as provided in Section 1164
of the State of California.
Special municipal elec-
6;00 o'clock A. I.i. of
be kept open until 7;00
the polls shall be closed,
of the Political Code
SECTION 5. Said proposition shall appear on the
ballots to be used at said election in the words and figures
as the same is set forth in Section 1 of this Resolution,
and in addition to other matters required to be stated in
said ballots, there shall appear thereon the following:
"INSTRUCTION TO VOTERS: To vote on a question
or proposition, stamp a cross (X) in the voting
square after the word "YES" or after the word
"NO"; all marks, except the cross (X) are for-
bidden. 611 distinguishing marks or erasures
are forbidden and make the ballot void. If you
wrongly stamp, tear or deface this ballot,
return it to the inspector of election and ob-
tain another."
SECTION 6. If an elector shall stamp a cross (X)
after the printed word "YES ", his vote shall be counted
in favor of the adoption of said ordinance, and if he shall
stamp a cross (X) in the voting square after the printed
word "NO ", his vote shall be counted against the adoption
of the same. If a majority of the qualified electors vo-
ting on said proposed ordinance shall vote in favor thereof,
such ordinance shall thereupon become a valid and binding
ordinance of the said City of El Segundo, and shall be
considered as adopted upon the date that the vote is can-
vassed and declared by the Board of Trustees of said City
and as provided by law shall go into effect ten (10) days
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thereafter.
SECTION 7. That in all other respects, said
special municipal election shall be conducted in the manner
required by the resolutions and ordinances of the said City
of E1 Segundo, relating to the elections and the laves of
the State of California relating thereto, as far as the same
may be applicable.
SECTION 9. The City Clerk shall certify to the
passage and adoption of this Resolution; shall enter the
same in the Book of Resolutions of the City of E1 Segundo;
shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof
in the records of the Board of Trustees of said City in
the minutes of the meeting at which the same is so passed
and adopted; shall cause this Resolution to be published
by three consecutive insertions before the date of said
election in the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of
general circulation, printed, published and circulated
within the said City, which is hereby designated for that
purpose; and he shall conspicuously post a printed copy of
said Resolution at least one week next preceding the date
of said election in three public places within the said
City, to -wit, one copy thereof on the bulletin board near
the main entrance to the City Hall in said City; one copy
thereof on the bulletin board at the United States Post
Office in said City; and one copy thereof on the bulletin
board at the main entrance to the refinery of the Standard
Oil Company in said City.
This Resolution shall take effect immediately.
Passed, approved and adopted this 24th day of
October, 1922.
(SRAL)
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President o Of the Bo rd Of
Trustees of the Cif of
California.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
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COUNTY OF LOS l.NGELES,
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, VICTOR D. MOCARTHY, City Clerk of the City of
E1 Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the fore-
going Resolution, being Resolution No. 46 was passed and
adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of E1 Segun-
do, California, signed by the President of said Board,
and attested by the City Clerk, all at a regular meeting
of the said Board, held on the 24th day of October, 1922,
and that the same was so passed and adopted by the follow-
ing vote:
AYES:
TRUSTEES:
Hueger,
Smiley and Bryson.
NOES:
TRUSTEES:
Binder
and Davis
ABSENT: TRUSTEES:
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