Section 1. The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause to be prepared the official ballot for use at said election, including a ballot for the use of vote by mail voters, with the names of the following candidates and offices set forth thereon:br />
COMMISSIONER DISTRICT #4
Reinaldo Diaz
Craig Frost
Daniel Morgan
Section 2. The ballot for the referendum election is hereby determined to be as follows:
1. SHALL THE CITY OF LAKE WORTH BEACH AMEND ITS CHARTER AT ARTICLE III, SECTION 2 TO PROVIDE THAT NO PERSON MAY SERVE MORE THAN A MAXIMUM OF TWELVE CONSECUTIVE YEARS AS A CITY ELECTED OFFICIAL AND THAT NO PERSON MAY SERVE MORE THAN TWO CONSECUTIVE FULL TERMS AS MAYOR OR COMMISSIONER WHEREIN THE OFFICES OF MAYOR AND COMMISSIONER WILL BE CONSIDERED SEPARATE OFFICES FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH CONSECUTIVE TERM LIMITS?
YES _____
NO ______
2. SHALL THE CITY OF LAKE WORTH BEACH AMEND ITS CHARTER AT ARTICLE V, SECTION 4 TO PROVIDE THAT A CANDIDATE WHO QUALIFIES FOR A RUN-OFF ELECTION IS AUTHORIZED TO CONCEDE THE RUN-OFF ELECTION WITHIN 48 HOURS OF THE CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTION RESULTS THEREBY DOING AWAY WITH THE NEED FOR A RUN-OFF ELECTION AND ALLOWING THE REMAINING CANDIDATE TO BE DULY ELECTED?
YES _______
NO ________
3. SHALL THE CITY OF LAKE WORTH BEACH AMEND ITS CHARTER AT ARTICLE III, SECTION 1 TO PROVIDE FOR SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICT VOTING WHEREIN EACH COMMISSIONER SHALL BE ELECTED BY THE VOTERS RESIDING IN HIS OR HER OWN DISTRICT, AND WILL CONTINUE TO REPRESENT THE ENTIRE CITY AND WITH THE MAYOR CONTINUING TO BE ELECTED BY THE VOTERS OF THE CITY-AT-LARGE?
YES _____
NO ______
4. SHALL THE CITY OF LAKE WORTH BEACH AMEND ITS CHARTER AT ARTICLE III, SECTION 5 TO PROVIDE THAT WHEN THE CITY COMMISSION IS REQUIRED TO FILL A VACANCY ON THE COMMISSION BY APPOINTMENT, SUCH APPOINTMENT SHALL BE MADE BY THE REMAINING MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION NO LATER THAN 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE OPENING OF THE QUALIFYING PERIOD FOR THE NEXT CITY ELECTION?
YES _____
NO ______
Section 3. This resolution is to be forwarded to the Supervisor of Elections for Palm Beach County.
Section 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
As said, I do not like district by district voting. All these commissioners make decisions that affect our lives and we should have the right to vet and vote on all of them.
ReplyDeleteVote NO on 3.
And one more thing, what's with raising electric rates when recently you said rates would not be increased?
ReplyDeletewho are the elected officials that can serve 12 years compared to the commisioners serve for 2 terms
ReplyDelete@10:46...Conceivably someone could be a commissioner for two terms of 3 years each and then run for Mayor for two more terms of 3 years each. That is what this is all about.
ReplyDeleteAs an example, Sarah runs for two terms and then runs for mayor and wins after Betty is term limited.
As far as number 2 is concerned, I will vote NO. You could have someone with a plurality at well under 50%. Say you have 5 people running and someone gets 39, 37% I want to see the top two in a run-off and win by a majority of the voters. When a candidate or proposition polls more votes than any other but does not receive more than half of all votes cast, you are allowing someone to win without a majority. Not good.
ReplyDeletegood point on both explanitions.problem is the writers of these are doing a good job of confusing the voters.be nice to have these things writen for the comon person to read and understand.i for one did not go to a school that taught how to read between the lines.hope a lot of us ask what it means
ReplyDelete@12:25...In the majority of cases, and the city knows this, if they put forth an amendment, voters usually vote YES. They don't really think it through. The just believe their elected officials.
ReplyDelete12.25 lets try to change that
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree! Vote no on #3!
ReplyDeleteAgree with 3.51--- NO on #3
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