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5-12-76
RESOLUTION NO. 76-55
A REOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF SANTA ANA URGING AMEND-
MENT TO THE FEDERAL VOTING RIGHTS
ACT OF 1975 TO REDUCE THE COST THEREOF
TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES
WHEREAS, the effect of the Federal Voting Rights Act
of 1975 upon the City of Santa Ana and other cities and counties
within the State of California is that bilingual voting materials
must be mailed to all registered voters, at very substantial ex-
pense; and
WHEREAS, much of the expenditure therefor is wasteful
of public moneys and other public resources, in that the nunkbers
of registered voters who require the assistance of bilingual
voting materials is very small in proportion to the total nun~ber
of registered voters in the city and elsewhere.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of
the City of Santa Ana that said Council hereby urges upon the
Congress of the United States that the Voting Rights Act of 1975
be amended to permit the mailing of a notice to all registered
voters that bilingual voting materials are available in a speci-
fied office of the agency that is calling the election, said notice
to be in the foreign language or languages applicable to that
jurisdiction, and requiring that such bilingual voting materials
be available for distribution in said office, but not requiring
that they be mailed to all registered voters.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Santa Ana at its regular meeting held on the l?th day of
, 1976.
ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) Ss.
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, FLORENCE I. MALONE, do hereby certify that I am the
Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the foregoing
Resolution was introduced to said Council at its regular
meeting held on the 17th day of May 1976, and was at
said meeting passed an--~ adopted by the following vote, to wit:
AYES, COUNCILMEN: Brandt~ Ward, Bricken, 0rtiz~
Yamamoto~ Garthe
NOES, COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT,
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
KEITH L. GOW
CITY ATTORNEY
COUNCILMEN: Evans
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL