Fail: 7,998 / 28.9% Yes votes ...... 19,693 / 71.1% No votes

See Also: Index of all Propositions

Meaning of Voting Yes/No

A YES vote on this measure means:

A "YES" vote is a vote to create a term for four (4) years for the office of elected Mayor for the City if Proposition K passes.

A NO vote on this measure means:

A "NO" vote is a vote not to create a four (4) year term if the office of elected Mayor passes.

This proposition is one of three on the ballot related to establishing a directly elected office of the Mayor of the City of Encinitas ("City"). Since incorporation as a general law city, the City has been governed by a five-member City Council ("Council"). Pursuant to the Encinitas Municipal Code ("Code"), in December of each year, the Council selects one of its members to serve as Mayor (at the pleasure of the Council) for the next year. The Code also provides that the Mayor serves as the presiding officer of Council meetings. Additionally, by custom and practice, the Mayor performs certain ceremonial functions such as "ribbon cuttings" and limited administrative duties such as signing Council approved contracts and adopted resolutions and ordinances.

As a general law City seeking to designate the office of elected Mayor, State law requires that three separate but related questions be posed to the voters. In this case the following questions apply:

(1) Proposition K asks whether the electors of the City of Encinitas shall elect a Mayor and four City Council Members?
(2) Proposition L asks whether the term of office of mayor be two years? and
(3) Proposition M asks whether the term of office of mayor be four years?

Effect

Proposition M is a companion proposition to Propositions K and L. The passage of Proposition M would set the term of office for an elected Mayor at four years only if both of the following occur:

(1) A majority of voters approve Proposition K to establish the office of an elected Mayor in the City; and
(2) This Proposition M (the four-year term of office proposition) receives more votes than Proposition L (the two-year term of office proposition).

If passed, the first opportunity to elect the Mayor would be in November of 2014, when the next general election for the City is scheduled.

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