Item B: City Council Process Session

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ATTACHMENT B EUGENE CHARTER (excerpt) Section 23. Vacancies: Occupancy. The office of mayor or office of city councilor becomes vacant: (a) Upon the incumbent’s: 1. Death; 2. Adjudicated incompetence; 3. Recall from office; 4. Resignation from office. (b) Upon declaration by the council of the vacancy in case of the incumbent’s: 1. Failure, following election or appointment to the office, to qualify for the office within ten days after the time for his or her term of office to begin; 2. Absence from the city for 30 days without the council’s consent or from all meetings of the council within a 30-day period, without the council’s consent; 3. If a councilor, ceasing to reside in the ward from which elected; if the mayor, ceasing to reside in the city; 4. Ceasing to be qualified elector under state law; or 5. After election, conviction of an offense pertaining to the office. Section 24. Vacancies - Filling. (1) The Eugene Water & Electric Board shall fill a vacancy on the board by appointment within ninety days after the vacancy occurs. (2) The council shall fill a vacancy in any other elective city office by appointment within ninety days after the vacancy occurs. A person so appointed shall hold office until the successor to the office is duly elected and qualifies therefor. (3) If the position of a city councilor or mayor becomes vacant more than 100 calendar days prior to the May election of any year, an election to fill that vacancy shall be conducted in the same year. If the position of city councilor or mayor becomes vacant less than 100 days prior to the May election of any year, the election to fill that vacancy shall be conducted the next year. If a candidate for election to a vacated position achieves a majority of all votes cast for that position in the May election, that candidate shall assume office the following July 1, notwithstanding Section 21 of this charter. The term of office of any person elected to fill a vacancy shall expire when the term of the vacated position expires.