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May I have roll call please?
Mayor Boomgarden.
Here.
Vice Mayor Pasquale.
Here.
Council Member Cole.
Here.
Council Member Kirchner.
Present.
Council Member Shaw.
Here all right, please stand join with me on pledge allegiance to the flag
Appearance of interests its systems item number one
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the opinions of the group. Any comments from the public? Susan? Thank you. No public comment.
Anything online?
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Item number two consideration of an action pursuant to
elections code section one zero two two nine for council districts one two and
three that must be you that's me good evening mayor and council this will be
brief one and two touch bases with you regarding the November 2026 election as
you know the city is scheduled to hold a consolidated general election on
November 3rd 2026 for the purposes of election electing council members for
districts 1, 2, and 3. The nomination period for this election closed on Thursday, August 6th,
and only one candidate was nominated for each of the three council districts.
On August 11th, the city received a certificate of facts from the Sutter County Registrar,
our voters confirming this information, and shortly thereafter, I as the city clerk
certified that there were no more than one candidate for each office. That being
said, the nominated candidates are Dave Shaw for District 1, Mark Boomgarden
District 2, and Mike Pasquale for District 3. Under these circumstances and
pursuant to elections code 10229, the City Council may take one of the
following courses of action. A, you can choose to appoint to office the person who has been
nominated. B, you can direct that we go forward with the election regardless. Or C, you can
take no action. In the event that council chooses to appoint council members to these
offices, the person appointed shall qualify and take office and serve exactly as if
they were elected. Additionally, I will not be accepting any write-in
candidates after this appointment is made. So I, as a city clerk, have compiled
the requirements for elections code 10229 by providing the city council
and certifying there's not more than one candidate per office. And now the
council has the option to either adopt a resolution to nominate and appoint the
candidates that are nominated to move forward with the election or to take no
action. One note I want to make before the council takes action is that we
because we consolidate the election with Sutter County we typically spend
and around $12,000 per seat for those services. And if we decide not to go forward with the
election, we're looking to save at minimum $36,000 for the election, plus all the other
incidentals that might come our way for that process. So we typically will, in the
case where we have three council seats open, we'll budget for 50 just to be safe.
and we did budget for 50 this year.
So there's, if we decide not to move forward
with the election, that's what the council wishes to do.
And then there is potential savings there.
So we don't have to pay that county for that election.
So I'm happy to answer any questions.
Thank you for the presentation.
Any questions from the council?
Seeing none, any comment from the public?
No public comment.
One thing I do want to mention too
is if you do plan to vote on appoint people you can't vote for yourself. So we
would vote for district one and council member Shaw would have to recuse
himself from that particular vote and then council member two and so on. Okay.
So privilege of the chair what we'll do is we'll go district by district and that
way we can document and we'll do roll call vote and we that way we can
document the abstentions. All right. Any further comment before we get going?
All right. Yeah. I would like to make a comment before we move forward. I've worked with most
of you for quite a while now. And I know jokingly I say once in a while I enjoy keeping the
band together. I know you've heard. I beat that one to death. But I think what we're
looking at right now is pretty important. We've got three districts and those three districts
ran unopposed. And what that speaks to me as a citizen of this city is to the caliber
of the candidate that's running and the job that you gentlemen have done. So thank you
for that.
I appreciate that.
Gentlemen and ladies.
Okay, any other comments?
City Manager, do you have any comments?
That would be no.
Excellent. All right.
So the first item here on item number two is to bring forward the resolution in regards to District 1.
So we need nominations.
the chair I'd like to nominate Dave Shaw to continue as city council person for
district one.
I can't. Right. I have a nomination from council member Kirchner
a second by council member Cole will have roll call vote on district one.
Before you start roll call does he have to leave the room I would refer to
our attorney because you have to leave the room for this vote.
So to make sure
we doing this correctly then is an abstention okay or does he actually need to use the
word recusal? Thank
you very much. All right.
Roll
call vote for district one. Councilmember Kirchner.
Aye. Councilmember Cole.
Aye. Mayor Boone-Garden.
Aye. And Vice Mayor Pistol Wally.
Aye.
Oh yes. And Councilmember Shaw.
Thank you. All right we'll do procedurally. Can I bring my own
district in or do I need to pass that off to the vice mayor? I'm the next district
district too.
Thank you mayor. Do I have a motion to take action on the
appointment of council member of the second district? Through the chair. I
know I moved to nominate Mark Boone-Garden for district two council
member. Second that. I have a first from council member Cole and a second
I'm from Council Member Kirchner.
May I have roll call vote please?
Council Member Cole.
Aye.
Council Member Kirchner.
Aye.
Vice Mayor Pasquale.
Aye.
Council Member Shaw.
And Mayor Boone-Gordon.
Abstain.
Thank you.
All right, District Number Three.
Take up that district now.
Here to the chair.
I'd like to make a motion to nominate
or for consideration, nonate Vice
Mayor Pasquale
to continue being a council member for district number three.
Second.
All right, I have a motion by council member Kirchner,
second by council member Cole Gavril-Covol, please.
Council member Kirchner.
Aye.
Council member Cole.
Aye.
Mayor Boone-Garden.
Aye.
And council member Shaw.
And vice mayor.
I'd say.
Thank you. Okay. So we have one more item of business. The recommendation is to
adopt a resolution appointing the nominated candidates to office. So moved.
Second. I have a motion to appoint the nominated candidates to office. Go ahead.
All those in favor signify. Hope I guess we can do our own right.
All those in
in favor? We got a nomination in a second. All those in favor signify by saying aye.
Aye. Any opposition? Any abstentions? Hearing none, item number two, adopt a resolution
appointing a nominated candidate to office is passed unanimously. Any further business?
Meeting adjourned.