Message-ID: <33100815.1075840333583.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:11:44 -0800 (PST) From: ccvevents@aol.com To: ccvevents@aol.com Subject: River Market Meeting and ballot Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: CCVEVENTS@aol.com@ENRON X-To: CCVEVENTS@aol.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ExMerge - Baughman Jr., Don\Deleted Items X-Origin: BAUGHMAN-D X-FileName: don baughman 6-25-02.PST Subject: RiverMarket Public Meeting and Ballot for the Election The ballot listed below lists the 13 propostions on the February 2 ballot and the gentlemen running for City Council. Proposition 1 has to do with the new pool. I attended the meeting about the proposed pool tonight and it was quite interesting. It is not my place to be political. My job is to keep you informed. Therefore, let me say one word -- VOTE. I hope that we will be informed voters and that we will be an area of League City that will exercise our right to vote. As we ask for things from the city and the school district it helps to let them know that we are an active group of voters in CCV. Remember, if you do not vote, you cannot complain later. :) Thank you to everyone from CCV who attended the meeting tonight. We were a large protion of the group. Mary G. Strickland A Public Meeting for the proposed League City RiverMarket will be held on Monday, January 14,2002, 6:30pm at the Johnnie Arolfo Civic Center in League City. Consultants have been hired to create a master plan for a mixed use project along the south side of Clear Creek from Interstate 45 to FM 270. Mape, drawings and photos depicting various features of the project will be presented for public comment. CITY OF LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS SPECIAL ELECTION FEBRUARY 2, 2002 COUNCIL POSITION #3 (one year unexpired term) THOMAS CONES MIKE HEMBREE DAVID KILPATRICK PROPOSITION NO. 1 Shall the City Council of the City of League City, Texas, approve the construction of the proposed community center in the City? ( ) FOR ( ) AGAINST PROPOSITION NO. 2 Shall article II, section 4 of the City Charter be amended to specify that the regular city election for mayor and/or council members shall be held on the uniform election date falling on the first Saturday in May or any other date required by the Election Code, deleting the outdated reference to elections in April of each year, and specifying the procedures for a runoff election? PROPOSITION NO. 3 Shall article II, section 19 of the City Charter be amended to provide that the city council may adopt contracts in an amount in excess of the dollar amount specified by section 271.024 of the Local Government Code, rather than the lower spending limitation currently specified in the charter that is inconsistent with state law? PROPOSITION NO. 4 Shall article III, section 1 of the City Charter be amended to specify that the regular election for mayor and council members whose terms are expiring shall be held on the first Saturday of May in each year or as otherwise required by section 41.001 of the Election Code? PROPOSITION NO. 5 Shall article III, section 3 of the City Charter be amended to make it gender neutral and to specify the time frame for filing for mayor or a council member position that is consistent with the Election Code? PROPOSITION NO. 6 Shall article III, section 4 of the City Charter be amended to specify that in a runoff election for a particular city office, the qualified person receiving a majority of votes, rather than the highest number of votes, shall be declared by the city council to be the person elected, making the section consistent with other provisions of the City Charter? PROPOSITION NO. 7 Shall article IV, section 3 of the City Charter be amended to specify that persons signing a petition for initiative or referendum must appear on the official lists of persons registered to vote in the general city election that was last held prior to the date the petition is filed, and specifying that signers of such petitions must also provide the information required by section 277.007 of the Election Code? PROPOSITION NO. 8 Shall article VII, section 10 of the City Charter, governing borrowing in anticipation of receipt of property taxes, be amended to refer to "the year _____" rather than the now outdated reference to "the year 19___"? PROPOSITION NO. 9 Shall article VII, section 14 of the City Charter be amended to allow the city council to adopt an ordinance authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract for budgeted city expenditures, without further council approval, for items not exceeding the dollar amounts specified by section 271.024 of the Local Government Code, rather than the now outdated limitation of $2,000 per contract, and further providing that contracts for expenditures and for bidding of contracts shall comply with the state constitution and the Local Government Code? PROPOSITION NO. 10 Shall article VIII, section 2 of the City Charter be amended to eliminate the outdated provision authorizing the city council to prescribe the manner of making renditions of the value of personal property, to prepare tax lists, assessments and tax rolls, and to thereby limit the city's tax appraisal authority, to specify that such authority is vested in the appraisal district for the county in which the taxable property is located, and to specify that an inventory of any taxable personal property in the city must be filed by April 15th of each year, as specified under state law? PROPOSITION NO. 11 Shall article VIII, section 3 of the City Charter be amended to provide that the city council shall cast votes for the Board of Directors of the Galveston County Central Appraisal District, that such board shall operate in accordance with the City Charter and the Tax Code, and deleting the now outdated references to a City Board of Equalization? PROPOSITION NO. 12 Shall article VIII, section 6 of the City Charter be amended to provide that the appraisal district for the county in which any real property in the city is located shall not be required to make separate appraisals of joint or conflicting interests in real property, and deleting the various references to a city tax assessor and collector? PROPOSITION NO. 13 Shall article X, section 18 of the City Charter be amended to treat early voting in city elections the same as absentee voting, and also making early voting subject to state election laws and, when no state law applies, to any city ordinances addressing the subject?