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Orange County, CA November 7, 2006 Election
Measure CC
Change in Terms of City Commission Appointments
City of Santa Ana
City Charter Amendment

17522 / 58.0% Yes votes ...... 12675 / 42.0% No votes

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Results as of Jan 4 9:36am, 100.0% of Precincts Reporting (126/126)
50.5% Voter Turnout (756348/1497397)
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Section 901 of the city charter provides that the city council, by majority vote, nominates and appoints persons to the various city boards, commissions and committees. Terms for such seats are tied to city council terms; three to wards 2, 4 & 6, and the remainder to wards 1, 3 & 5. Board and commission members are subject to the same term limits as city council members - two four-year terms. For many years, the city councils have followed a tradition of endorsing nominations from the council member to whose ward the particular commission seat is tied. When the charter was amended to create the directly elected office of mayor with the two-year term, no commensurate change was made for the commission seat which has been tied to that of the mayor. This amendment proposes to add these long-standing traditions into the charter by formally tying commission seats to individual wards, creating on each board or commission a seat to be nominated by the mayor with a two-year term conforming to the mayor's term, and giving each councilmember the right to nominate a candidate to represent that councilmember's ward. Other members of the city council will still have the right to nominate competing candidates for board and commission seats.

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