HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES NO 119-60RESOLUTION N0. 119-60
RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD DECLARING RESULTS OF GENERAL
MUNICIPAL ELECTION FOR THE OFFICE OF MAYOR
AND OF SPECIAL MUNICIPAL. ELECTION ON A
PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT, HELD IN SAID
CITY ON NOVEMBER 8, 1960.
WHEREAS, thi, s Council duly and'-regularly called and provided
for the holding of a special election within the City of Bakersfield
on November 8, 1960, for the purpose of submitting the following
proposition to the voters:
PROPOSITION N0. I (A)
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OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE COUNCIL (Section 34)
and CREATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE
(Section (208) 1). ShallSection 34 of the City
Charter be amended to provide that the City
Attorney shall be appointed to serve under con-
tract for a period of four years from and after
the date 'of his appointment and shall Section 34
b~ f~rther amended to include ~h~I ~Uditorium
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Manager, whose term of office shall be established,
by ordinance; and shall Section(208) I of said ,
City Charter be amended toinclude the City ! NO
Attorney and the Auditorium Manager among those ~
excepted. from the provisions of Civil Service? ,
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AND WHEREAS, said Council further calledand provided. for the
hq~ding of a general electionon said 8th day of November, 1960, for
the purpose of electing a Mayor in said City, as follows:
MAYOR
Frank Sullivan
Mayor of Bakersfield
Gene Winer.-
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AND WHEREAS, said special and general elections were duly
and regularly consolidated with the State General Election held
in said City on November 8, 1960, and the Board of Supervisors of
the County of Kern was duly authorized to canvass the returns of said
special and general elections, and
WHEREAS, said Board of Supervisors, through special canvassing
boards appointedby it, duly canvassed the absentee ballots cast at
said.elections,and ordered the County. Clerk of the'County of Kern to
canvass all of the returns of said elections, and said Board has
adopted its resolution stating the results of said elections, and
the Clerk of said Board has entered in the records of said Board
statements of said results, and the Clerk of said Board has trans-
mitted to the Clerk of this Council a certified copy of said reso-
lution and the same has been presented to this Council.
NOW, TKEREFORE, the COuncil of the City of Bakersfield does
_NE. REBY RESOLVE', DETERMINE, AND DECLARE AS FOLLOWS:
1. That from the results of said special election certified
to this Council as aforesaid, it appears and this Council hereby
finds and declares that the total number of votes cast at the
respective election precincts established for said special and
general elections upon the proposition hereinabove set forth and
for the office. of Mayor, and for ~and against said proposition, the
total number of'absentee votes cast at said election Upon said
proposition and for and against said proposition and ~or the office
of Mayor, and the total number of votes cast in said city upon said
proposition and for and against said proposition and for the office
of Mayor, are as set forth in said Resolution of the Board of Super-
vi s or s~-of_Kern .:County ,. Cal i£~rn~a~ _-sta t~ng res. U~..9~I ~ an~ass_ of..
election returns of special municipal election andof said general
municipal.election of the City of BakerSfield held November 8, 1960,
a copy of which Resolution is on file in the office of the City Clerk..
voted on at said election are as followsx
That the total votes cast on' the foregoing proposition
City of Bakersfield Proposition No. I (A):
Absentee Vote:
GRAND TOTAL:
6,508 12,309
6,946 12,770
That a majority of the qualified electors Voting at said
election voted against said proposition.
3. That the names of the candidates for the office of Mayor
for said city and the number of votes given in the city for each
such person, are as follows:~
Frank Sullivan ..... .........
Gene Winer ... ..... .......
VOTES ABSENTEE
'CAST V0~ES
ll,2?O 581
11,873 539
GRAND TOTAL-
TOTAL
VOTES
11,851
24,263
That Gene Winer is hereby declared to be elected to the office
of Mayor for the City of Bakersfield for the full term of four years
anduntil'his successor is elected and qualified, unless sooner
removed from office by recall oP otherwise.
4. That the Clerk of the Council is hereby instructed to enter
in full on the minutes of this Council the results of said election.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was passed and
adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meet-
ing thereof held on the 28th day Of November, 1960, by the following
vote:
Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield.