Item B: Charter Amendment on EminentDomain Process

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ATTACHMENT A City Recorder’s Office City of Eugene 777 Pearl Street, Room 105 M Eugene, Oregon 97401-2793 EMORANDUM (541) 682-5042 (541) 682-5414 FAX www.eugene-or.gov Date: January 23, 2008 To: Mayor Piercy and City Councilors From: Mary Feldman, City Recorder Subject: Potential Charter Amendment Election This is to inform council of election deadlines to consider during the discussion of a potential charter amendment relating to eminent domain at the January 30 meeting. Should council decide to proceed with a referral to the May 20 Primary Election, the last day council may approve a resolution calling an election would be February 18. Since that is a holiday, action would need to be scheduled for the council meeting on either February 11 or February 13. Following council’s referral of legislation to the electors, Eugene Code allows the City Attorney five business days to prepare a ballot title and deliver it to the City Recorder. The City Recorder then arranges for publication of the title in the next available edition of the Register-Guard. An elector dissatisfied with the ballot title has seven business days from the date it was delivered to the City Recorder to file an appeal with Lane County Circuit Court. The February 18 deadline has been established to allow for these processes and for a potential Circuit Court hearing all to be completed in time for the March 20 deadline for the City Recorder to file measures that are to appear on the ballot with Lane County Elections (61 days prior to the election). Please feel free to contact me at 682-8353 if you have questions about the election process and timing issues. May08 referral deadlines memo