HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Ord 133 1926-12-16
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ORDINANOE NO. /..3.3
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH, CALIF-
ORNIA, ORDERING AND PROVIDING FOR THE HOLDING
OF A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN
SAID CITY ON FRIDAY, THE 7TH DAY OF JANUARY,
1927, TO DETERMINE WHE.'rHF;R THE VOTERS ViI LL RE-
CALL R. E. DOLLEY, JESsD R. JOJfN~ and C.O.
WHEAT, MEMBERS OF Tim Bt>ARD OF TRUSTEES OF SAID
CITY; ESTABLISHING AN ELECTION PRECINCT OF
SAID CITY AS A WHOLE, DESIGNATING THE POLING
PLACE AND APPOINTING OFFICERS OF SAlD ELEOTION.
WHEREAS, on the 8th day ot November, 1926, a Petition
was tiled with the City Clerk ot the City of Seal ~aoh, Calit-
ornia, demanding the removal and reoall trom office ot R. E.
Dolley, Jess;te R. JOPnI and C.O. Wheat aa members ot the Board
ot Trustees ot said City; and
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WHEREAS, within ten days trom the date ot such tiling
of said Petition, the City Clerk of said City examined the same
and found it to be sufficient, and on the 16th day of
November, 1926, attached her certificate thereto showing that
aaid Petition was signed by the requisite number ot qualified
voters ot said City and so certified said petition to be
sutficientI and
WHEREAS, on the 18th day of November, 1926, at a
re~lar meeting ot said Board of Trustees, aaid City Clerk'sub-
mitted said Petition with such certificate thereto attaohed to
the Board of Trustees of said City ot Seal Beach;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Board ot Trustees of the Oity of
Seal BeaCh, do ordain as follows:
Section 1.
That a speoial municipal eleotion shall
be held in the City of Seal Beach on Friday the 7th day of
January, 1927 tor the purpose of submitting to the qualified
eleotors ot said City of Seal Beach, the question of, and to
determine whether the voters of such City will recall R. E.
Dolley, JessIe R. JOhnl and C. O. Wheat, now holding otfice
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1 as duly elected and qualified members of the Board of Trustees
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Sec. 2.,
That tor the purpose of holding said
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special municipal election hereby called, the enti~City of
Seal Beaoh is hereby designated~ fixed a~established as one
speoial municipal eleotion preoinot, and/the boundaries of said
precinot shall be the present boundaries and territorial limits
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of said City;
that the polling place for said'election
shall be at the City Hall Building in said Oity ot Seal Beaoh;
and the tollowing persons are hereby appointed otficers or said
eleotion tor said special municipal eleotion precinot, res-
peotively:
Inspeotor~ :
Judges:
Fran~o~lath
Edwin A. Murray and Albert E. Swain
Clerks:
Mrs.Adelaide Dodson, Mrs.Caroline Harding and
Everett W. Reed.
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That the polls for said special
municipal eleotion at the polling place herein designated shall
l8 be opened at six 0' clock A. M. on the day of the speoial Mun-
19 icipal eleotion, and shall be kept open continuously thereafter
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except that if, at the hour of olosing there are
22 any voters in the polling place, or, in line at the door, who
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24 appearing, the polls shall be kept open a sutticient time to
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enable them to vote,
but no one who shall' arrive at the polling
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and when said polls shall be closed, the eleotion offioers shall
them proceed to canvass the ballots cast at said eleotion as
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Seo. 4.
Notioe i8 hereby given ot the holding
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holding the same and thet in all partioulsra not recited in
this Ordinanoe, said eleotion shall be held as provided by law
for holding municipal elections in said City ot Seal Beach.
Seo. 6.
That the City Clerk is hereby instruoted
to prepare and cause to be printed on the propel' kind of paper
at the expense ot said City all supplies required for said elec-
tion, and a sufficient number of ballots therefor, amd to fUr-
nish and provide the same for the use of the voters at said
election, and aaid City Clerk shall cause to be printed suoh
sample ballots as may be !'Ctq1iired by law, and shall oause suoh
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sample ballots to be mailed to the eleotors of said Oity at the
time presoribed by law.
Sec. 6.
There shall be printed upon the sample
ballot, whioh shall be mailed as hereinbefore provided for by
the City Clerk ot said City, in not more than two hundred words,
the reasons set forth in the Reoa~l Petition for demanding the
reoall of the members ot the Board ot Trustees named and designat d
in said Petition, whioh reasons are as follows:
1. That none of said members derive their main-
tainanoe from or in the City ot Seal BeaCh, and in conse-
quence are not, and have not been, in sympathy with, and
have openly antagonized and discouraged business enterprise.
They habitually meet in private, conduct the business of
the oity in seoret, and but meet openly to give ettect to
their plans, arrived at in star chamber. They have con-
temptuously ignored the opinions of the other experienced
members of the board, and thus have engendered distrust
and disoord.
2. They have maintained a gloritied polioe
department, composed of inexperienced and incompetent
officers, in numbers, three times as large, or more, than
heretofore neoessary, Where at most, three men heretotore
were sufficient to polioe the city, they have kept from
six to ten men on the pay rOll" thus adding an unnecessary
burden on taxpayers.
3. Theil' administration of the business of the
city has been extravagent, wastefUl and bungling through-
out, they have lost the oonfidenoe of the oommunity;
The taxpayers and qualitied ~oters recognize their inoom-
petenoe, or capacity to properly administer the business
interests ot the city, and the qualitied eleotors demand
their removal and reoall trom office as members of the
board of trustees;
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1 and upon such sample ballot there shall be printed in not more
2 than two hundred words a statement whereby: said members of the
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Board of Trustees sought to be'recalled, justify their course
in office which shall be as tollows:
1. That R. E. Dolley, JessJ.e R. JOhn' and C. O.
Wheat, members of the Board of Trustees soughT to be re-
called, are each owners of real properrty in this City and
taxpayers.
2. That they have openly encouraged every
legitimate business enterprise and without fear 01' favor
have upheld the laws of the city, State and Nation.
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3. That they have been solicitous of the right~
of residents and have refused' to be diotated to by
corporate and unlawful interests.
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effioient
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They have been oompelled to maintain an
police deparrtment in order to insure law and
5. They have reduced the taxes of the oity $0.45
on a hundred dollar valuat,-on; have protected the city's
water supply; are in favor of public improvements in keep-
ing with the demands of the community and are in tavor of
industry and allll1sements under reasonable re~la'bion and
zoning.
That in addition to the above there shall be
printed on such recall ballot as to eaoh officer whose recall
is to be voted on thereat, the tollowing questions:
"Shall
R. l!:. Dolley be recalled trom the ottice ot a member of the
Board of Trustees of the City of Seal Beach, Cal1rom iaY"
"Shall Jessie R. JOhnl be reoalled trom the otfice of a member
of the Board of Tl"Ilsteea of the City ot Seal BeaCh, California?"
and "Shell C. O. Wheat be recalled from the ofr1,ce ot a member
of the Board of Trustees of the City of Seal Beach, California?"
and tollowing eaoh of which questions there shall be printed the
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words "Yes" and "No" on separate lines with a blank at the
right ot each in which the voter shall indicate by stamping a
(x) his vote for 01' against suoh recall,
and in all other
respects suoh ballot shall be as by law prOVided.
Sec. 7.
That the City Clerk shall attest this Ordinance
and cerrtity to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance,
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1 Orde1.", Notice and Proclamation by the Board of Trustees of the
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City of Seal Beaoh, and cause it to be printed and posted in
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three publ1c and conspiouous placelin said City ot Seal Beach,
and published onoe in the Seal Beach Post and Wave, a newspaper
5 of general circulation, printed and published in said City of
6 Seal Beach,
and this Ordinance, being an Ordinance eal1ing an
7 eleotion, shall thereupon take effect immediately upon its
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presiden~ <t! ~~~tees.
Attest: nfL~ J tJ fj" j"'.'A L
~erk ancfiJ[~Ufdio Clerk
of the Board of Trustees ot the
City ot Seal BeaCh, California.
The above and toregoing Ordinance No. /!J 3
City of Seal BeaCh, is signed and approved by me this
of said
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preside~~ ,",~f Trustees ot
the City of Seal Beach.
STATE OF OALIFORNIA
I COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF SEAL BEACH
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I, 'OLLIE B. PADRICK, the duly appointed, qual1tied and
acting City Clerk of the Oity ot Seal Beach, do hereby oertify
that the tore going Ordinance was re~larly passed and adopted at
a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of Seal
BeaCh, Cal1tomia, on the IG.!#o.ay of ~, ,1926 by the
following vote:
Ayes, Trustees: U)a.ptIAJ r;;~). '&~-j f~
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Noes, Trustees: 71.tnA. 0.) , .
Absent, Trustees: ~),
CitP~~;/~~~ Clerk or the
Board of Trustees of the City ot Seal
Beach, Califernia.
BlJ,!!R A, B.ROWN
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