2023-070 - Calling and Giving Notice of General Municipal Election to be held on November 5, 2024 for the Submission of a Ballot Measure - Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction

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Section 4. If the Measure receives a majority of the votes cast on it at the election, the Measure shall be approved and adopted accordingly. Section 5. The City Clerk, in coordination with the Orange County Registrar of Voters, is authorized, instructed and directed to procure and furnish any and all official ballots, notices, printed matter and all supplies, equipment and paraphernalia that may be necessary in order to properly and lawfully conduct the election. The ballots to be used at the election shall be in form and content as required by law. Section 6. The City Council consents to the consolidation of the election on this Measure with all other elections being held in the same territory on November 5, 2024, and to hold and conduct the consolidated election in the manner prescribed in Election Code Section 10418. In accordance with Section 10403 of the Elections Code, the Board of Supervisors of Orange County is hereby requested to consent to consolidation of the election on this Measure with the Statewide General Election and all other elections being held in the same territory on November 5, 2024, and to having the Registrar of Voters render such election services to the City of Santa Ana as may be requested by the City Clerk of said City, the County of Orange to be reimbursed in full for such services as are performed. Section 7. The election services requested by the City of the County Registrar of Voters, or such other official as may be appropriate and which officer is hereby authorized and directed to perform, if said Board of Supervisors consents, include: the preparation, printing, and mailing of sample ballots and voter information guides; the establishment or appointment of precincts, voting centers, and election officers; opening and closing of voting centers, and making such publications as are required by law in connection therewith; the furnishing of ballots, voting booths, and other necessary supplies or materials for voting centers; the canvassing of the returns of the election and the furnishing of the results of such canvassing to the City Clerk; and the performance of such other election services as may be requested by the City Clerk. Section 8. The precincts, ballot drop box locations and hours of operations, vote center locations and hours of operations, vote -by -mail procedures and timing, and election officers, and all other persons and procedures for the General Municipal Election shall be the same as those utilized by the County of Orange. Section 9. All ballots shall be tallied at a central counting place and not at the precincts. Said central counting place shall be at a County center as designated by the Registrar of Voters. Section 10. The City Clerk is hereby directed to transmit a copy of the Measure set forth in Section 2 above to the City Attorney, who shall prepare an impartial analysis of the Measure in accordance with Section 9280 of the Elections Code not to exceed 500 words in length. The impartial analysis shall show the effect of the Measure on existing law and the operation of the Measure. It shall also include a statement indicating whether the Measure was placed on the ballot by a petition signed by the requisite number of Resolution No. 2023-070 Page 3 of 5