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>> This is a special City Council meeting.

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This meeting is called to order at 5:30 p.m.

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Will the clerk please call roll?

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[roll call]

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>> Council member Fuller is absent.

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>> Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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>> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States

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of America and to the Republic for which it stands,

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one nation under God, indivisible,

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with liberty and justice for all.

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>> Item 3, public comment.

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We will receive public comment for items

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not on tonight's agenda.

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I currently do not have the public comment cards.

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If you wish to speak come public comment card in the lobby.

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There's a reminder in front of my seat.

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It will be one minute turn yellow,

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and then please conclude when it turns red.

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Anybody wish to make public Comments tonight?

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Is there anybody online?

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>> See anyone online.

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>> That will close public comment.

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We'll move to item four comment regular agenda 4.1,

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adopt a resolution accepting the City Clerk's

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notice of and Available Options Pursuant to California Elections

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Code § 10229 and Either Appointing

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the Sole Nominees or Directing Elections for City Council

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Districts 2 and 4 at the November 3, 2026 General

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Municipal Election.

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And the staff report will come from our city clerk.

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>> Good evening mayor vice mayor and council members

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the nomination for the November 3rd general municipal election

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closed on Friday August 7th with only one candidate qualified

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for each of the open seats.

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District two Henderson and District four Councilmember

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Shannon Shaw.

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At the close of the nomination period,

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no individuals have expressed interest

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in running as a write in candidate for either district.

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Under California Elections Code section 10229, A1,

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one candidate qualifies for an office of the City Council

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can appoint the qualified nominees

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or proceed with holding an election.

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As required by law, the notice of facts and available options

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was published in the East County Times

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on Friday, August 14, 2026, following the fifth day

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publication, Council may take action.

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If Council elects to appoint the nominees,

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the appointment must occur no later than the 75th day prior

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to the election, which would be August 20th, 2026.

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If the City Council chooses to appoint the nominees,

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appointees qualify take office and serve

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as elected of the municipal election.

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The appointed person's name and candidate statement

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will not appear on the ballot and write in candidates will not

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be permitted.

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If council chooses to hold the election,

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the city will incur election related costs estimated to be

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between 31,000 to $50,000 for both districts based on county

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elections data as of April 3rd, 2026.

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If elections are held in districts two and four,

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each nominated candidates name and ballot designation

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will appear on the applicable district ballot

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and each candidate's statement will appear

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in the Voter Information Guide.

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Qualified write in candidates will also be permitted.

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Staff recommends City Council consider the available options

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and adopt the appropriate resolutions for each district

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to either appoint a qualified candidates

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or direct an election to be held.

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And that is my staff report.

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Thank you.

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>> Questions for staff?

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Councilmember Shaw?

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>> I have a question.

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The amount as estimated, but it is budgeted

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in our current budget, correct?

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>> Correct.

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>> And if the council's direction is to appoint,

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where would that money go?

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Would it just go back to general fund?

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>> It is part of the from general fund,

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so it is money that can be appropriated as desired.

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>> And if we say wanted it to go to a specific item like

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the library, would that be something that we could direct?

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>> You could.

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>> Thank you.

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>> Any other additional questions for staff?

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Is there any public comment for this?

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Seeing no public comments, anybody online?

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>> I see no hands raised online.

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>> I will bring it back to the Council for deliberation.

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>> We make one motion.

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>> Councilmember Shaw.

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>> In the interest of the fact that it has to do with one

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of these seats being myself, would there be a way that we

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could separate these into two separate items track although

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the FPPC Assembly do not have to recuse out of abundance

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of caution.

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If we could separate it, I think it would be best paramedic

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>> If that is the way the motion is made, it sounds good to me.

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>> I move to approve separating them out.

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I move to a point Councilmember show off for district 4.

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I guess I should have done district two first.

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>> Second.

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>> So we have a motion and a second for roll call vote.

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>> Councilmember Shaw.

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>> I will recuse myself from this vote.

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[members voting]

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>> Motion carries, 3 and 1 abstention.

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>> I would like to make a motion to appoint our current mayor

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Hugh Henderson to district two.

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>> Second.

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>> We have a first and a second.

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Roll call vote.

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[members voting]

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>> The motion carries, three and one abstention.

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>> And that is our only business actions for tonight.

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Councilmember Shaw?

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>> Can I motion to use the money that we were saving for not

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running these elections and have it go to the >> I don't think

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you can because it's not on the agenda or the --

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>> Yeah, I think I heard what you said and I understand

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the intent there.

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And I won't take that as direction given at this meeting.

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But we will be bringing it back in a future council meeting.

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I will keep that in mind.

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>> Thank you.

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>> With that, if there is no further action

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for tonight's meeting, we will --