Year 2002 Motions and Resolutions
Motions and Resolutions Passed by the San FranciscoElections Commission
| Date | Keyword | Motion | Comments | ||
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| 01-24-02 | Nominations | Schulz is President, Shadoian is Vice President | 02-01-24-1 (Serrano Sewell/Kenealey) 02-01-24-2 (Rosenthal/Mendelson) | ||
| 01-24-02 | Committees formed | Personnel Committee and Budget Committee come into being | 02-01-24-3 (Rosenthal/Mendelson) | ||
| 01-24-02 | Committee membership | Personnel: Mendelson to chair, other members to be Shadoian and Serrano-Sewell. Budget: Rosenthal to chari, other members to be Kenealey and Stowers | 02-01-24-4 (Stowers/Kenealey) | ||
| 01-24-02 | Redistricting Task Force | Commission will appoint 3 members at meeting February 1, 2002 | 02-01-24-5 (Rosenthal/Kenealey) | ||
| 01-24-02 | Applications for Redistricting Task Force | Commission open the applications process immediately and close on COB January 30th with statements of interest submitted to DOE. | 02-01-24-6 (Rosenthal/Kenealey) | ||
| 01-24-02 | Redistricting Task Force – previous applications | Applications submitted to Board of Supervisors, Mayor or DOE will be considered by Commission | 02-01-24-7 (Shadoian/Kenealey) | ||
| 01-24-02 | Ethics Commission | Chair to meet w/Executive Director of Ethics Commission to discuss organizational experiences and explore public hearings and investigations | 02-01-24-8 (Mendelson/Stowers) | ||
| 01-24-02 | Sheriff’s Department | Invite Sheriff to discuss March elections security preparations | 02-01-24-9 (Shadoian/Mendelson) | ||
| 01-24-02 | March election status | Director of Elections to provide written report due no later than February 1, 2002 of status of DOE preparations for March 5, 2002 election | 02-01-24-10 (Shadoian/Rosenthal) | ||
| 01-24-02 | DHR and CSC | Chair of Personnel Committee to reach out to the DHR and CSC concerning process and policies for hiring a DOE director and Commission support staff | 02-01-24-11 (Shadoian/Schulz) | ||
| 01-24-02 | Regular Meeting Dates | Commission to meet first and third Thursdays of the month at 7:00 pm in Room 408 | 02-01-24-12 (Shadoian/Schulz) | ||
| 02-01-02 | Redistricting Task Force Members | To appoint Claudine Cheng, Gwenn Craig, Herbert Donaldson as Election Commission appointments to the Elections Task Force | 02-02-01-1 (Schulz/Shadoian) | ||
| 02-01-02 | Special Meeting | Commission determined that a Special Meeting should be held February 7, 2002 at 6:30 pm | 02-02-02-2 (Schulz/Shadoian) | ||
| 02-01-02 | Special Budget Meeting | Commission determined that a Special Budget Meeting should be held February 7, 2002 at 4:30 pm | 02-02-01-3 (Rosenthal/Serano-Sewell) | ||
| 02-01-02 | Regular Meeting Dates | Regular Commission Meeting Dates changed to 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 7:00 pm in Room 400 | 02-02-02-4 (Rosenthal/Serano-Sewell) | ||
| 02-05-02 | Closed Session | Closed Session re: Director Evaluation not be disclosed
| 02-05-02-1 (Rosenthal/Serrano-Sewell) | ||
| 02-05-02 | Performance Evaluation | Director will be appraised, format due March 20 to Personnel Committee, March 6th report on March 5 election plus report on lessons learned
| 02-05-02-2 (Schulz/Shadoian) | ||
| 02-07-02-Budget | Supplemental Budget | Committee approves and recommends Commission approve Supplemental Budget | 02-07-02-1 Budget (Kenealey/Stowers) | ||
| 02-07-02-Budget | Evaluation | Committee to recommend to the Personnel Committee, that the director’s ability to cut cost on ballot card production be used as appraisal criteria | 02-07-02-2 Budget (Stowers/Rosenthal) | ||
| 02-07-02-Budget | Meeting Times Schedule | Committee agreed to set regular meeting one Thursday per month at 6:30 pm in Room 416. | 02-07-02-3 Budget (Rosenthal/Kenealey) | ||
| 02-07-02-Budget | Special Meeting | Set Special Meeting for February 12 at 12:30 pm in Room 408 | 02-07-02-4 Budget (Rosenthal/Stowers) | ||
| 02-07-02 | Supplemental Budget | Budget Policy Committee recommended approval by Commission | 02-07-02-1 (Rosenthal/Kenealey) | ||
| 02-07-02 | Recanvassing | To strike the recanvassing budget item from budget | 02-07-02-2 (Mendelson/Rosenthal) | ||
| 02-07-02 | Sheriff’s Dept. budget item | To add $125,000.00 for Sheriff’s Dept. to budget. | 02-07-02-3 (Rosenthal/Mendelson) | ||
| 02-07-02 | Waiver to use Admin. Services staff on election day | To ask Board of Supervisors to pass waiver to allow Admin. Services staff to work as technical support on election day | 02-07-02-4 (Rosenthal/Mendelson) | ||
| 02-07-02 | 30-day Rule | The Director seek suspension of the 30-day Rule from the President of the Board of Supervisors | 02-07-02-5 | ||
| 02-07-02 | Use of City Workers | Motion to allow use of City workers to work as poll workers on Election Day | 02-07-02-6 (Mendelson/Rosenthal) | ||
| 02-07-02 | Questions to the Director | Questions for the Director are to go through the Commission President in writing and re-addressed to the Director to be answered at next scheduled meeting | 02-07-02-7 (Schulz/Mendelson) | ||
| 02-19-02-Budget | Fiscal Year 2003 | To wait for the proposed FY 2003 budget before making recommendation on March 13, 2002. | 02-07-02-B-1 (Rosenthal/Kenealey) | ||
| 02-20-02 | Conflict of Interest | To adopt a conflict of interest code | 02-20-02-1 (Mendelson/Serro-Sewell) | ||
| 02-20-02 | Bylaws and Stationery | To create an Ad Hoc committee for bylaws and stationery | 02-20-02-2 (Mendelson/Rosenthal) | ||
| 02-22-02 | Director Hiring | To accept process as presented to determine the hiring of a Director | 02-22-02-1 (Shadoian-Sewell) | ||
| 03-06-02 | Space | Commission instructs the Director to commence the search for place to house, under one roof, all election functions and report back the availability, cost, location and other associated factors. | 03-06-02-1 (Mendelson) | ||
| 03-13-02 | Policies and Procedures | To instruct the Director to provide the Chair of the Budget and Policy Committee and the President of the Commission with all policies that govern the department, that are written and on hand currently.
| 031302-1 (Rosenthal/Kenealey) | ||
| 04-17-02 | IRV | To direct the Director to contact all IRV vendors and request that they respond within two weeks with their costs and procedures to implement Proposition A for 2002 – 2003. | 041702-2 (Stowers) | ||
| 04-17-02 | Commission Secretary | To make an offer of employment as Commission Secretary to Ms. Shirley Rodriques subject to the requisition being approved and Ms. Rodriques’ availability.
| 041702-1 | ||
| 04-22-02 Budget | FEDs Waiver | To recommend that the Commission seek a waiver for the use Feds. for the November election. | 042202-1B (Rosenthal)
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| 04-22-02 Budget | Supplemental | To request two enhancements, run off and the touch screen implementation at the same time, if the funds can be obtained.
| 042202-2B (Stowers) | ||
| 04-22-02 Budget
| Budget |
To approve the budget.
| 042202-3B (Rosenthal) | ||
| 04-22-02 | Budget Baseline | To pass the baseline budget that was approved by the Budget and Policy Committee and to pass it on to the Mayor’s office.
| 042202-2 (Rosenthal) | ||
| 04-22-02 |
That the Commission decide in Closed Session that it no longer wishes to have Tammy Haygood continue as Director of Elections; the decision to be effective immediately.
| 042202-1 (Schulz) | |||
| 04-22-02 | Appoint President | 042202-3 (Kenealey) | |||
| 04-29-02 Personnel | Acting Director | To recommend the appointment of Mr. John Arntz as Acting Director, | 042902-1P (Shadioan/Schulz) | ||
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04-29-02 Personnel |
Secretary of State |
The Chair of the Personnel Committee to be authorized to do all things necessary and proper to establish a contract to accept assistance from the Secretary of State for expert election advice.
| 042902-2P (Schulz/Serrano-Sewell) | ||
| 04-29-02 | Supplemental | The Commission accept the recommendation of the Budget and Policy Committee regarding the three enhancements that totaled $790,000 and refers specifically to instant run off voting, pilot touch screen voting system and the elections process efficiency project. | 042902-1 (Rosenthal/Schulz) | ||
| 04-29-02 | Reduction Priorities | Commission accept the reduction priorities as presented forthwith: Priority 1 will be poll workers fees by reducing hiring for the November 2002 election; Priority 2 will be ballot costs – to take measures to reduce ballot costs for the November 2002 election; Priority 3 services of the Sheriff – reduce the costs of the services of the Sheriff for providing security- $100,000. The total to be $500,000. | 042902-2 (Rosenthal/Schulz) | ||
| 04-29-02 | Consultants | The President to do all things necessary and proper to establish a consulting contract for expert elections consultation. | 042902-3 (Shadoian/Kenealey) | ||
| 04-29-02 | Acting Director Appointment |
That the Election Commission offer the position of Acting Director of Elections to Jonathan Arntz, effective Monday, May 6, 2002, upon submission of resume and three references and successful review and approval by President Mendelson and the Chair of the Personnel Committee, Commissioner Shadoian.
| 042902-4 (Serrano/Sewell/Schulz) | ||
| 05-15-02 | Closed Session Audio Tapes | Audio Tapes of April 22, 2002 closed session meeting not be disclosed.
| 051502-1 (Rosenthal/Shadoian) | ||
| 05-15-02 | Vernon Grigg |
President Mendelson be delegated to write the response to Mr. Vernon Grigg’s, attorney for the former Director of Elections’ letter.
| 051502-2 (Rosenthal/ Kenealey) | ||
| 05-15-02 | John Mott-Smith |
Commission send a letter of commendation to Mr. John Mott-Smith for his assistance to the San Francisco Elections Department and the Commission.
| 051502-3 (Shadoian/Kenealey) | ||
| 06-04-02B | Absentee Ballot Postage |
To recommend to the Commission that it support Supervisor Daly’s proposal that the City pay for postage on absentee ballots.
| 060402-1B | ||
| 06-05-02 | By Laws |
To approve the Election Commission By Laws
| 060502-1
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06-05-02 | Absentee Ballot Postage |
That the President of the Commission send a letter to the Board of Supervisors in support of the amendment to the Municipal Elections Code to require that San Francisco pay for absentee ballot postage, with the understanding that the funds not come from the DOE budget.
| 060502-2 (Kenealey/Stowers) | ||
| 06-29-02 | Chinese names for candidates | To adopt the proposed policy for translated and transliterated Chinese names for candidates . | 062902-1 (Schulz/Stowers) | ||
| 07-08-02 | Requisition for Director of Elections. |
The Commission urge the Mayor to release the requisition for the Director of Elections so that the Elections Commission may appoint a Provisional Director. . | 070802-1 | ||
| 07-08-02 | Supplemental for Attorney’s Fees. |
The Commission approve a request for a supplemental appropriation from the Board of Supervisors for legal counsel and other legal costs to the Com-mission in the matter of Tammy Haygood’s appeal to the Civil Service Commission re: termination of employment.
| 070802-2 (Rosenthal/Stowers) | ||
| 07-17-02 | CACE | To recommend to the Board of Supervisors that the CACE cease operations.
| 071702-1 | ||
| 07-17-02 | Removal of Vice President | To remove Richard Shadoian as Vice President of the Elections Commission. | 071702-2 (Kenealey/Stowers) | ||
| 07-17-02 | Appoint Vice President |
To appoint Alix Rosenthal Vice President of the Elections Commission.
| 071702-3 (Kenealey/ Stowers) | ||
| 07-29-02 | Chinese characters |
To adopt the proposed policy for translated and transliterated Chinese names for candidates. The new policy allows candidates to provide their name in Chinese characters. If a member of the public challenges the name, the Director may ask for supporting documentation from the candidate that demonstrates that the submitted name is the name by which the candidate is consistently identified in the Chinese community and press. For the November 5, 2002 election, candidates to submit their Chinese name by August 9th. These names to be available for public inspection on August 26. Challenges to be made before noon on August 27. The Director to make a determination by noon August 30 and that determination to be final.
| 072902-1 (Schulz/Stowers) | ||
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08-07-02 |
Supplemental |
To request a supplemental appropriation from the Board of Supervisors for lease of real estate for the DOE and any additional real estate costs presented by the Director that are not covered in the Annual Appropriation.
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080702-1 (Rosenthal/Schulz) | ||
| 08-07-02 | Paid Ballot Arguments |
To support the Board of Supervisor’s proposed legislation regarding paid ballot argument fees and submission deadlines. | 080702-2 (Rosenthal/Schulz) | ||
| 08-07-02 | California Voting Modernization Board Act |
To request that the Board of Supervisors approve an application for funds under the California Voting Modernization Board Act ( Proposition 41 ). The Department of Elections would use the funds to upgrade existing voting equipment or acquire new voting equipment so the Department could better serve voters with disabilities, or special language requirements, and implement the new system of instant run-off voting.
| 080702-3 | ||
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08-21-02 |
Waiver to allow City employees to work during Elections Day |
That the Commission approve the Acting Director’s recommendation to seek a waiver from the Board of Supervisors under Charter Section 13.104.5, to permit City employees to serve as field election deputies and perform other duties for the November 5, 2002 election and the run-off following that election.
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082102-1 (Kenealey/Rosenthal) | ||
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08-21-02 |
Provisional Director |
To implement the DHR’s procedure for selection a Provisional Director of Elections including the steps described.
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082102-2 (Kenealey/Rosenthal) | ||
| 09-18-02 | Appointment of Provisional Director | To appoint John Artnz to the position of Provisional Director. | 091802-2 | ||
| 09-18-02 | Elections Department Policies and Procedures. |
To adopt Elections Department Policies and Procedures.
| 091802-3 | ||
| 09-18-02 | DHR Employee Handbook |
To adopt the City’s DHR Employee Handbook dated July 2002 as the general guidelines for the Elections Department in its relations with employees and as part of the Policies and Procedures for the Department.
| 091802-4
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| 10-02-02 | Election Plan | To approve the Election Plan for the November 5, 2002 election. | 100202-2 | ||
| 10-02-02 | Year-Round Staffed Elections Department |
To have a general Commission policy establishing a year-round staffed Elections Department; further, that such year-round Department staff have civil service status; further, the Director should report to the Commission, regarding structure, civil service status, and other significant factors necessary to create a politically independent, year-round Elections Department within a reasonable time after the last election this year.
| 100202-3 | ||
| 10-23-02 | Adopt Strategica Organizational and Facilities Review. |
To adopt the organizational structure of the Strategica Organizational and Facilities Review, Appended as Exhibit Two, as the Organizational Chart of the Department of Elections and that its implementation begin as soon as practicable after the fall 2002 election.
| 102302-1 | ||