Item 6: Ordinance Revising Elections Code

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Section 4. Subsections (4), (5), (6) and (7) of Section 2.966 of the Eugene Code, 1971, are amended to provide: 2.966 Elections - Officers. (4) Except as provided in section 24 of the Eugene Charter, [T]the first voting for mayor, councilor, or [EWEB] Eugene Water & Electric Board member during a year shall take place at an election held at the same time [and places in the city] as the statewide primary election that year. (5) If at the primary election one candidate for a city office receives a majority of the votes cast for [all candidates for] that office, that candidate shall be the only one whose name appears on the ballot [for] at the [November] general election that year as a candidate for that particular office. (6) If at the primary election no [such] candidate receives [such] a majority of votes cast for the office, the two candidates receiving the two highest numbers of votes cast for the office shall be the only [ones] candidates whose names appear on the ballot [for] at the [November] general election that year as candidates for that particular office. (7) The candidate who receives a majority of the votes cast [at the November election] for the office at the general election is elected to that office and is entitled to a certificate of election thereto. Section 5. Sections 2.968, 2.970, 2.971, and 2.9773 of the Eugene Code, 1971, are amended to provide: 2.968 Elections - Eugene Water & Electric Board - Composition. (1) [Each member elected to the board before 1976 has the term of office thereon for which so elected.] Except as subsection (2) of this section provides to the contrary, each member elected to the Eugene Water & Electric Board [board during or after 1976] has a term of office thereon of four years. (2) The board may fill a vacant office thereon by appointing thereto a person from the same constituency as the member who [has] last occupied that office. If [that] an elected member leaves the office vacant less than 14 months after the member’s term on the board begins, at the next primary and general [November] elections after the vacancy occurs, a member shall be elected to the vacant office from the same constituency as the member who [has] last occupied that office. st The term of office of the person so elected begins [the first] January 1 of the immediately ensuing year and continues for two years. 2.970 Submissions During Business Hours. Prospective and completed Ordinance – Page Page 5 of 24 S0803106-attA.DOC 3/7/2008