City of Boulder 2C -- Amendment of Recall Election Procedures

This would specify a timeline and the steps for recalling elected officeholders. It also restricts the recalled official from serving on any elected or appointed official city body for one year. The current charter requires a recall election to be held within 40 days rather than the proposed 75 to 90 days after filed recall petitions are certified as valid.

Recommendation: FOR
This ballot issue will bring the city of Boulder into conformity with state election laws.

Ballot Question No. 2C (Approved Ballot Language)

Amendment of Recall Election Procedures

Shall Sections 56, 58, 59, and 62 of the Charter, relating to the method to be utilized to recall holders of elective office, be amended pursuant to Ordinance Number 7603 to:

(1) Provide that the city clerk will make forms for recall petitions available and will, within two days of submission of proposed recall petition (and prior to their circulation to the public), review the petitions for form;

(2) Limit to two hundred words statements of reasons supporting and opposing a proposed recall and provide for the posting or publication of those statements at least twenty days prior to a recall election;

(3) Allow a recall election to be held between seventy-five and ninety days after the city clerk certifies that a valid recall petition has been filed;

(4) Provide for the coordination of recall elections with other municipal elections if such other elections are to be held within ninety days;

(5) Provide that a council vacancy that occurs after a removal election has been ordered will be filled by the procedures for filling of council vacancies that appear in Section 8 of the charter;

(6) Clarify the requirements for recall ballots, allowing for coordination with county election procedures, and specify that “yes” votes will be counted in favor of recall;

(7) Provide that any vacancy created by a recall election will be filled by an election held in the manner set forth for filling council vacancies in Section 8 of the charter; and

(8) Specify that an official may not serve on any elected or appointed official city body for a period of one year following the date on which that official is recalled from office or resigns while recall proceedings are pending.

For the Measure ____ Against the Measure ____


See Sections 56 through 62.
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