AGENDA CAPTION:
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Consider approval of Ordinance 2020-17, repealing Ordinance 2020-16 that ordered a Special Election to be held on May 2, 2020 for the purpose of filling a vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term of office of city council place five; giving public notice that a new date for conducting a Special Election to fill the vacancy will be ordered by adoption of a subsequent ordinance, with new filing deadlines, due to the current COVID-19 pandemic; declaring an emergency creating the need to adopt this ordinance with only one reading; and providing an effective date.
Body
Meeting date: March 31, 2020
Department: City Clerk/Attorney
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Background Information:
The letter submitted by Dr. Jocabed Marquez on March 9, 2020, resigning her position as City Council Member Place 5, created a vacancy in that position as of March 17, 2020 that must be filled by special election.
By ordering the special election on March 17, 2020, through the adoption of Ordinance No. 2020-16, it was the intention of the San Marcos City Council to have the special election held concurrently with other elections to be conducted by the Hays County Elections Administrat...
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