2020-028 - Accepting the Certificate as to Verification of Signatures

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EXHIBIT B CERTIFICATE OF SUFFICIENCY OF REFERENDUM PETITION I, Daisy Gomez, Clerk of the Council for the City of Santa Ana, County of Orange, State of California, do hereby certify: That proponent flied with my office on February 24, 2020 a Referendum Petition against Ordinance No. NS-2980. The Petition was delivered to the Orange County Registrar of Voters on February 25, 2020 to verify the signatures. That said Petition consisted of 680 sections, and that each section contains total signatures purporting to be 19,160 signatures of qualified electors of the City of Santa Ana, California. The Petition is considered sufficient to qualify if signed by at least 10% of the 109,093 registered voters in the City of Santa Ana. That attached to said Petition at the time It was filed, was an affidavit purporting to be the affidavit of the person who solicited the signatures, and containing the dates between January 24, 2020 through February 22, 2020 which the purported qualified electors signed this Petition. That the affiant stated his or her own qualification, that he or she had solicited the signatures upon that Section, that all of the signatures were made in his or her presence, and that to the best of his or her own information and belief, each signature to that section was the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. That the Registrar of Voters of the County of Orange has certified the results attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated by reference the signature verification of the following facts regarding this Petition: 1. Total number of signatures filed: 19,160 2. Total number of signatures required by law: 10,909 3. Total number of signatures verified (reviewed): 15,666 4. Total number of valid (good) signatures: 10,912 5. Number of signatures which were invalid (disqualified): 4,754 Based on this examination and in accordance with Elections Code Section 9240, 1 hereby certify the Referendum Petition as sufficient to qualify it for the ballot should the City Council choose not to repeal the challenged portions of the Ordinance. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Ana this 13' day of April, 2020. Daisy Gomez Clerk of the Council City of Santa Ana Resolution No. 2020-028 Page 4 of 4