1.
Discussion of Potential Ballot Measures for November 2004
Election (PDF, 4 MB)
(to be
delivered)
From: City Manager
Contact: Phil
Kamlarz, City Manager, 981-7000
Action: Discussion held. Continued to 7:00 p.m. meeting for further discussion and action.
2.
Public Financing of Election Campaigns (CF 21-04)
a. From: City Manager (PDF, 8 MB)
Recommendation: Direction to the City Attorney
whether or not to prepare the text of a ballot measure for the November 2004
Election, which would amend the Berkeley Election Reform Act (BERA) to enable
the Council to enact a public financing program.
Contact: Sherry M. Kelly, City Clerk 981-6900
b. From: Mayor Bates and Councilmember Spring (PDF,
3 MB)
Recommendation: Put before the voters in
November 2004 a charter amendment and an amendment to the Berkeley Election
Reform Act (BMC 2.12) submitted by Center for Government Studies to create a
voluntary system of full public financing for election campaigns for City
offices.
Contact: Tom Bates, Mayor, 981-7100; Dona Spring,
Councilmember District 4, 981-7140
c. From: Mayor Bates (PDF, 77 KB)
Recommendation: Support a charter
amendment and an amendment to the BERA as proposed by Center for Government
Studies with the following amendments:
1a) require that Council affirmatively vote to implement campaign
financing for each individual office; 1b) require that the trigger to implement
the program be by two-thirds vote of the Council; 2) ask the community and the
Fair Campaign Practices Commission (FCPC) to closely examine the number of
signatures and small contributions required to qualify for public financing so
that this number is set correctly and there be provisions to review and allow
for alternations; and 3) include an emergency suspension clause, giving the
Council, in the event of a fiscal emergency, the option to suspend the program
temporarily.
Contact: Tom Bates, Mayor, 981-7100
Action: Discussion held. Continued to 7:00 p.m. meeting for further discussion and action.
3.
Survey of Salaries for Mayor and Members of the Council (PDF,
334 KB) (CF 21-04)
From: City Manager
Contact: Sherry Kelly, City Clerk, 981-6900
Action: Received and filed.
