ORDINANCE 1557 ORDINANCE NO. 1557
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE DATE OF THE CITY'S
GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO THE FIRST TUESDAY
AFTER THE FIRST MONDAY IN JUNE OF EVEN-NUMBERED
YEARS BEGINNING IN JUNE 2022; AMENDING TITLE 1 OF THE
EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE AND REQUESTING
CONSOLIDATION WITH LOS ANGELES COUNTY PURSUANT
TO ELECTIONS CODE SECTION 10403.
The City Council of the City of EI Segundo does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: The City Council finds and declares as follows:
A. The general municipal elections for the City of EI Segundo are currently held
the second Tuesday of April in each even-numbered year;
B. Government Code § 14052 prohibits a city from holding an election other
than on a statewide election date, if holding an election on a non-concurrent
date has previously resulted in voter turnout for a regularly scheduled
election in that city, being at least 25% less than the average voter turnout
within the city for the previous four statewide general elections;
C. The City did not meet the qualifying criteria to continue to conduct stand-
alone elections and is legally required to move its elections to the date of
the statewide general election;
D, The City desires to change its municipal election to the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in June 2022, an established election date listed in
Elections Code § 1000 and the date of the statewide general election;
E.. In order to accomplish the change in election date, the term of City Council
Members elected in April 2018, who would otherwise be up for election in
April 2022, would be extended to June 2022.
SECTION 2: Environmental Assessment. Adoption of the proposed Ordinance is
statutorily exempt from further environmental review under the California Environmental
Quality Act (California Public Resources Code §§21000, et seq., "CEQA") and CEQA
Guidelines (14 California Code of Regulations §§15000, et seq.), because the proposed
Ordinance would amend the EI Segundo Municipal Code as far as timing of the City's
election, and it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the Ordinance
will have a significant effect on the environment.
SECTION 3: ESMC Title 1 (Administration and Personnel) is amended to add the
following new chapter and section as follows:
Ordinance No. 1557
Page Page 2 of 4
Chapter 4A: ELECTIONS.
Section 1-4A-1: Beginning in June 2022, general municipal elections for the
election of Council members, the City Clerk and the City Treasurer, and for
such purposes as the City Council may prescribe, will be held in the City on
the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June in each even-numbered
year.
SECTION 4: Adjustment of Terms of Office. In accordance with Elections Code §§ 1301
and 10403.5(d), due to the change of election date, the terms of office of those members
of the City Council elected in April 2018, whose terms would previously have expired in
April 2022, will instead expire at the next regularly scheduled Council meeting after receipt
of the certification of the results of the June 2022 General Municipal Election and
administration of oaths of office.
SECTION 5: Consolidated Election. Pursuant to Elections Code § 1301, the City Council
requests the County of Los Angeles approve consolidation of the City's June City Council
election with the statewide general election conducted by the County in June of each
even-numbered year.
SECTION 6: Notice to Voters. Pursuant to Elections Code § 10403.5, within 30 days after
this Ordinance becomes operative, the City Clerk must cause a notice to be mailed to all
registered voters of the City of EI Segundo (pursuant to the last report of registration by
the County Clerk to the Secretary of State) informing the voters of the change in the
election date. The notice must also inform the voters that as a result in the change in
election date, elected city officeholders' terms in office will be changed.
SECTION 7: Date of the First City Council Election in June. If this Ordinance becomes
effective, the first City Council election to be held in June will be June 2022.
SECTION w Request to the County. The City Clerk is directed to forward, without delay,
a certified copy of this Ordinance to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and
the County Election Department. The ordinance will become operative once the City's
request is officially approved by the Board of Supervisors.
SECTION 9: Construction. This ordinance must be broadly construed in order to achieve
the purposes stated in this ordinance. It is the City Council's intent that the provisions of
this ordinance be interpreted or implemented by the City and others in a manner that
facilitates the purposes set forth in this ordinance.
SECTION 10: Severability. If any part of this ordinance or its application is deemed
invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the City Council intends that such invalidity
will not affect the effectiveness of the remaining provisions or applications and, to this
end, the provisions of this ordinance are severable.
Ordinance No. 1557
Page Page 3 of 4
SECTION 11: The City Clerk is directed to certify the passage and adoption of this
ordinance; cause it to be entered into the City of EI Segundo's book of original ordinances;
make a note of the passage and adoption in the records of this meeting; and, within 15
days after the passage and adoption of this ordinance, cause it to be published or posted
in accordance with California law.
SECTION 12: This Ordinance will become effective on the thirty-first day following its
passage and adoption.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED ORDINANCE No. 1557 this 3rd day of October,
2017.
. 6-jv
AuzaUn��Je Fuentes, Mayor
ATTEST:
UA:W .
Trac w _m_...m..
y We ver ity Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Mark PHenpsley, C' y torney
Ordinance No. 1557
Page Page 4 of 4
CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Tracy Weaver, City Clerk of the City of EI Segundo, California, do hereby certify that
the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing
Ordinance No. 1557 was duly introduced by said City Council at a regular meeting held
on the 5th day of September 2017, and was duly passed and adopted by said City Council,
approved and signed by the Mayor, and attested to by the City Clerk, all at a regular
meeting of said Council held on the 3rd day of October, 2017, and the same was so passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Fuentes, Mayor Pro Tem Boyles, Council Member Brann, Council
Member Dugan, and Council Member Pirsztuk
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
WITNESS MY HAND THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF SAID CITY this day of October,
2017.
Tri Y Weaver, City Clerk
of the City of EI Segundo,
California