1 00:00:00,780 --> 00:00:30,600 We're going to call this meeting to order. This is a special, this is the City of East Wales City Council special meeting Wednesday, August 18th, 2026. Just after 5.30 p.m. We're calling this meeting to order. Mr. Donahue, if we could please have roll call. Councilmember Dinka. Here. Councilmember McMan. Here. Councilmember Rigby. Here. Mayor Pro Temeloremore. Here. Mayor Yao is absent. Okay. Excellent. We're going to be moving on to our pledge 2 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,540 of allegiance. The pledge of allegiance tonight will be led by Councilmember Dinko. 3 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,640 We're going to call this evening to order. 4 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:38,940 This is a special meeting. Please hand over your heart. 5 00:00:39,100 --> 00:00:42,900 The City of New Zealand Council special meeting Wednesday, August 18th, 2020. 6 00:00:58,540 --> 00:01:01,580 Okay, thank you. That brings us to our public comment. 7 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:07,900 You may submit a public comment by filling out a public comment card or raising your hand online. 8 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,660 Individuals online should use raise hand feature to indicate that they want to speak. 9 00:01:12,660 --> 00:01:15,520 And we'll be unmuted when it is their turn to speak. 10 00:01:15,940 --> 00:01:19,340 Public comments are allowed a maximum of three minutes per individual comment. 11 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:25,400 Please note that during public comment, the City Council is not able to respond to inquiries or engage in dialogue. 12 00:01:26,300 --> 00:01:28,900 Mr. Donahue, do we have any public comments? 13 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,180 We do not have any general public comment. 14 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:39,400 Okay, that brings us to our City Council business for this item. 15 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,940 I'm going to be stepping away. 16 00:01:44,750 --> 00:01:46,130 Council member Wigby will take over. 17 00:01:46,390 --> 00:01:47,050 Council member Wigby. 18 00:01:47,050 --> 00:01:50,390 Council member Wigby, the meeting's yours. 19 00:01:52,150 --> 00:01:52,870 Thank you, sir. 20 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:06,980 Starting with item number five of City Council Business 5.1, discussion to a point or hold 21 00:02:06,980 --> 00:02:09,100 the general municipal election in district three. 22 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,200 I'm going to turn to Mr. Mark Donahue to present this item. 23 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:14,500 Thank you, Council. 24 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:37,780 So in June of 2026, City Council adopted a resolution calling for a general holding of a general municipal election to be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2026 for three members of the City Council and requesting the Board of Supervisors of the County Riverside to consolidate and renders specified services to the City of Eastville related to the conduct of the statewide general municipal election. 25 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:45,380 The filing deadline was Thursday, August 6, 20, 26, at 5.30 p.m. for districts 1 and 3. 26 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:50,060 The deadline for district 4 was Wednesday, August 12, 20, 26, at 5.30 p.m. 27 00:02:50,740 --> 00:02:55,180 At the close of the nomination period, the city received filing papers for three individuals 28 00:02:55,180 --> 00:02:59,860 in district 1, one individual in district 3, and three individuals in district 4. 29 00:03:00,780 --> 00:03:05,780 Elections code section 102 to 9 provides three options to be considered by the governing 30 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:11,960 in this case, the City Council, and the events of one or no nominees filed by the close of the filing period. 31 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,680 Those options include appointing to the office a person who has been nominated, 32 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,060 appoint to the office any eligible voter if no one has been nominated, 33 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,640 and third hold the election of either no one or only one person has been nominated. 34 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:31,540 Given that any election which would be held in November would be uncontested for district three, 35 00:03:31,540 --> 00:03:34,260 The staff finds no value in pursuing the third option. 36 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:40,240 Additionally, the city would incur costs of approximately $30,000 in order to continue with the election and district three. 37 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,520 The appointment of a city council member must be approved by a majority vote of the city council. 38 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:50,920 The person appointed shall qualify and take office and serve exactly as it elected at municipal elections for the office. 39 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:56,780 After the appointments are approved, the city clerk shall not accept any filings for a right in candidate. 40 00:03:57,940 --> 00:03:59,820 And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. 41 00:03:59,820 --> 00:04:03,960 Thank you, Mr. Donahue. Any questions from Council? 42 00:04:05,740 --> 00:04:06,400 Councilmember Dingo. 43 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:13,840 I'm just confirming there's only one for District 3, and if we were to go ahead with election, 44 00:04:13,980 --> 00:04:16,040 it would cost an additional $30,000 for the filing. 45 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:16,820 Correct. 46 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:17,900 Okay, thank you. 47 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:23,860 Do you have a question since the closure of the filing date? 48 00:04:23,940 --> 00:04:26,380 Have you received any other interest from District 3? 49 00:04:26,380 --> 00:04:31,020 Okay, so we didn't receive any interest during the nomination period. 50 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:40,700 I did receive a phone call from somebody yesterday in District 3 who indicated that they were interested in being a right in candidates if the election is not canceled. 51 00:04:42,140 --> 00:04:45,400 That's still in the resident, I've only had one resident reach out to me. 52 00:04:45,940 --> 00:04:48,660 He told you he was interested or was not interested? 53 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,300 He was, he was interested if the city council did not cancel the election. 54 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,840 I think that same person told me he was not interested, so that's interesting. 55 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:26,740 Was there any discussion from that person as to why they did not file within the time that was allotted? As my understanding was that he was confused by the nomination period date. And there were no questions that were brought up before that? For district three, during the nomination period, I didn't receive any questions or interest besides the incumbent who filed. Okay. Any other questions from council? 56 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:33,100 Do we have any public comments on this item? We do not. 57 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:36,020 All right, Council, any further discussion? 58 00:05:43,580 --> 00:05:51,420 Interesting. I talked to a gentleman that was interested in running for Council. He told me that he was inquiring about the time. 59 00:05:52,060 --> 00:05:58,900 I advised him to contact Georgia Donahue and inquire find out if there's another route for him to file. 60 00:06:00,260 --> 00:06:09,520 Although I understand the rules, I want to make sure he is from the official person overseeing that election here in 61 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:15,940 And Eastville, I mean, it's a county run election, but the filings to the city of Eastville. 62 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:21,420 I did speak to him after the conversation with the city. 63 00:06:21,820 --> 00:06:28,400 He expressed to me something different that he would maybe be interested in the next time, but not in this time. 64 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:34,960 So it leaves me with knowing what I know, I think I have all the answers that I need with that information. 65 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:36,580 But that was just my statement. 66 00:06:36,580 --> 00:06:41,180 Okay. Thank you. Any other council members? 67 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:44,620 I feel that people had ample amount of time to do it and they also could have done a 68 00:06:44,620 --> 00:06:50,020 public comment today also if they're really serious about it and said hey I'm really 69 00:06:50,020 --> 00:06:55,720 interested in running please help me what can I do and no interest again so. 70 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,680 And for context I did make the gentleman aware of the meeting today that the council 71 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:06,180 was considering this and I informed him that I would call him after the meeting concluded 72 00:07:06,180 --> 00:07:08,080 to just tell him what the council's decision was? 73 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:13,280 Yeah, it's the same person, clearly, because he had called and says, yeah, Mark Donnell told 74 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,080 me that you guys are going to be talking about it tonight, and we discussed it. 75 00:07:16,660 --> 00:07:21,060 And I know the way our conversation finished, that he'd be looking out for the filing for 76 00:07:21,060 --> 00:07:25,580 next time. That was what my conversation was. That's what's going to help steer my opinion. 77 00:07:25,660 --> 00:07:31,620 If I had someone that was 100% saying that they wanted to continue with a right in, that 78 00:07:31,620 --> 00:07:34,980 would also steer my opinion. But I don't have that on my personal information. 79 00:07:36,140 --> 00:07:41,920 Thank you. We have a motion in a second, and if we can vote, please. 80 00:07:46,430 --> 00:07:49,910 And just for clarification, the motion is to approve staff's recommendation. 81 00:07:57,930 --> 00:07:59,150 Motion passes 3-0. 82 00:08:01,620 --> 00:08:10,660 Great. Thank you. And so from here, do we, is that done in our next council meeting or not, till December for him or? 83 00:08:10,660 --> 00:08:13,720 Not till December, because the term of office will begin in December. 84 00:08:14,780 --> 00:08:16,460 Okay. He's still in his previous term right now. 85 00:08:16,460 --> 00:08:20,940 Great. So should we bring them back in or just close the meeting? 86 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,940 Yes, we can't. We can just all leave. 87 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:25,400 And he just stays out there. 88 00:08:50,220 --> 00:08:56,080 All right, so do we need to do a recap, Mr. Donnie who or just for the, okay. 89 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,780 All right, then we will, this meeting is now adjourned. 90 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,640 The next regular city council meeting will be on September 9th, 2026 at 6.30 p.m. 91 00:09:02,980 --> 00:09:03,740 This means now adjourned.