City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. This is a special city council meeting. This meeting is called to order at 5.30 p.m. Will the clerk please call roll?

Would everybody please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Item three public comment We will receive public comment for items not on the tonight's agenda I currently do not have any public comment cards. If you wish to speak one, fill out a public comment card in the lobby. A reminder that is limited to three minutes. There's a timer in front of my seat. It'll beep at one minute and turn yellow. And then please conclude when it turns red. Anybody wish to make public comments tonight? Is there anybody online?

With that, we'll close public comment. We'll move to item four, regular agenda 4.1, adopt a resolution accepting the city clerk's notice of fact and available options pursuant to election code 10229, either appointing the sole nominees or directing elections for a city council district race for district two and four on November 3rd. And the staff report will come from our city clerk.

Questions for staff? Council Member Shaw.

I have a question. So the amount is estimated, but it is budgeted in our current budget, correct?

And if the council's direction is to appoint, where would that money go? Would it just go back to the general fund?

And if we, say, wanted it to go to a specific item like the library, would that be something that we could direct?

Any other additional questions for staff? Is there any public comment for this? Seeing no public comments in the thing, anybody online?

I'll bring it back to the council for deliberation. We make one motion. Council Member Shah.

In the interest of the fact that it has to do with one of the seats being myself, would there be a way that we could separate these into two separate items? Although the FPPC has ruled that we do not have to recuse out of an abundance of caution, if we could separate it, I think that it would be best.

If that's the way the motion's made, that sounds good to me.

Second. So we have a motion and a second for a roll call vote.

And that is our only business actions for tonight. Sorry, Council Member Shaw.

Can I motion to use the money that we are saving for not running these elections and have it go to the library?

I don't think you can because it's not on the agenda.

With that, if there's no further action for tonight's meeting, we'll adjourn tonight's meeting. Thank you, everybody, for coming.