HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-011 - Accepting the Certificate as to Verification of SignaturesRESOLUTION NO.2020-011
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA ACCEPTING THE CERTIFICATE AS TO
VERIFICATION OF SIGNATURES ON PETITION AND
CERTIFICATE OF SUFFICIENCY FOR PETITION TO
RECALL COUNCILMEMBER CECILIA IGLESIAS
WHEREAS, on June 26, 2019, the City Clerk received a copy of Notice of
Intention to Circulate Recall Petition for Cecilia Iglesias, Councilmember; and
WHEREAS, on August 15, 2019, the Petition for Recall form was determined
to meet the statutory requirements and, therefore, was approved for signature
gathering; and
WHEREAS, pursuant Elections Code Section 11221(a)(5), the number of
signatures required on the petition to qualify and trigger a recall election must be equal
in number to not less than the following percent of registered voters in the electoral
district: ten percent (10%) if the registration is 100,000 or above; and
WHEREAS, according the current Secretary of State report (dated February
10, 2019) at the time the Notice of Intention was filed, Santa Ana had 108,646
registered voters, and therefore, the number of verified signatures required was
10,865 for the petition; and
WHEREAS, on December 18, 2019, the proponents of a recall election filed the
petition with the Clerk of Council's Office in accordance with Elections Code Section
11220 and prior to the established deadline of January 22, 2019; and
WHEREAS, after completing a prima facie review of signatures, the Clerk of
Council determined that the petition did, in fact, contain the minimum number of
signatures, and, thereafter, provided the petitions to the County of Orange Registrar
of Voters for examination and verification of signatures; and
WHEREAS, on February 3, 2020, the County of Orange Registrar of Voters
provided a certificate as to verification of signatures on petition for the petition to recall
Council Member Cecilia Iglesias, indicating the following, and attached as Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, based upon the certificate as to verification of signatures from the
County of Orange Registrar of Voters, the Clerk of Council issued a certificate of
sufficiency for the petition to recall Council Member Cecilia Iglesias attached as Exhibit
B.
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, determines,
and declares as follows that the City Council hereby accepts the certificate as to
verification of signatures on petition from the Orange County Registrar of Voters on
the petition to recall Cecilia Iglesias, Councilmember and also accepts the Clerk of
Council's certificate of sufficiency.
Section 2. This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by the
City Council, and the Clerk of Council shall attest to and certify the vote adopting this
Resolution.
ADOPTED this 18th day of February, 2020.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R. Carvalho
City Attorney
By: A, . �u
Laura A. Rossini
Senior Assistant City Attorney
AYES: Councilmembers Bacerra Penaloza Pulido Sarmiento, Solorio (5)
NOES: Councilmembers
ABSTAIN: Councilmembers
NOT PRESENT: Councilmembers
Iglesias Villegas (2)
None (0)
None (0)
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CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, Daisy Gomez, Clerk of the Council do hereby attest to and certify the attached
Resolution No. 2020-011 to be the original resolution adopted by the City Council of the
City of Santa Ana on February 18, 2020.
Date
Daisy Gon ez
Clerk of the Council
City of Santa Ana
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EXNIEIT A
ORANGE1XVNTY REGISTRAR OF VOTERS' CERi1FICATE AS TO VERIFICATION
OF WONATURCS ON PETITION'
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CERTIFICATE AS TO VERIFICATION
OF SIGNATURES ON PETITION
State of California)
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County of Orange)
I, Neal Kelley, Registrar of Voters of the Courtly of Orange, do hereby
certify thel I am the county officer having charge of the registration of voters In
the County of Orange, and I have examined or caused to be examined, the
petition submitted to the City of Santa Ana entitled 'Peirnnn to Recall Council
Member Cecilia Iglesias'
I further certify that from said examination I hays de1urrnined the following
facts regarding this document
Number of signmures filed
10,415
Number of signatures required
111ion
Number of signatures verifier!
1p
Number of signatures found valid
19,L7Q
Number of signatues found invalid
4 1)12
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WITNESS my hand and Official Seal this 3rd day of February 2020
Registrar
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Registrar oKFUf ers
Orange critmly
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EXHIBIT F
CLERK OF COUNCIL'S CERTIFICATE OF 8UFFICIENCY
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CERTIFICATE OF SUFFICIENCY OF RECALL PETITION
I, Daisy Gomez, Clerk of the Councfl for the City of Santa Ana, County of Orange, State of
California, do hereby certify:
That proponents filed with my office on December 18, 2019 a petition to recall Cecilia Iglesias
holding the office of Councilmember, Ward 6 in the City of Santa Ana, California. The petition was
delivered to the Orange County Registrar of Voters on December 20, 2019 to verify the signatures.
That said petition consisted of 4,131 sections, and that each section contains signatures
purporting to be 16,414 signatures of qualified electors of the City of Santa Ana, California- The
petition is considered sufficient to quafdy if signed by at least 10% of the 108,646 registered voters in
the City of Santa Ana.
That attached to said petition at the time it was filed, was an affidavit purporting to be the
affidavit of the person who solicited the signatures, and containing the dales between which the
purported qualfied electors signed this petition.
That the affiant stated his or her own qualification, that he or she had solicited the signatures
upon that Section, that all of the signatures were made in his or her presence, and that to the best of
his or her own information and belief, each signature to that section was the genuine signature of the
person whose name it purports to be.
That the Registrar of Voters of the County of Orange has certified the results attached hereto
as Exhibit A and incorporated by reference the signature verification of the following facts regarding
this petition:
1. Recall sought Cecilia Iglesias as the named officer.
2. Holding the Office of Councilmember, Ward 6-
3. Total number of signatures required by law
10,865
4. Total number of signatures on the petition:
16,415
5. Total number of valid signatures on the petition:
10,870
6. Number of signatures which were disqualified
4,812
Based on this examination and in accordance with Elections Code Sections 11222, 11224,
11227 the recall petition is hereby acknowledged as sufficient to be submitted to the voters as a
special election not less than 88, nor more than 125, days after the issuance of the order.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City
of Santa Ana this 12" day of February, 2020.
Daisy Gomez
Clerk of the Council
City of Santa Ana
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