1 RESOLUTION NO. 24-29,527
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURBANK
ESTABLISHING THE COST OF CANDIDATE STATEMENT FEES
FOR THE 2024 GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURBANK RESOLVES:
1. Pursuant to Section 2- 3-143 of the Burbank Municipal Code, each candidate for a City of Burbank (City) elective office may prepare a candidate statement and submit it to the City Clerk.
2. A. The City shall not provide a subsidy for the English language candidate statement and the candidates shall pay the full cost of the same.
B. Pursuant to the Federal Voting Rights Act, the City is required to print a multilingual Sample Ballot. The City will therefore translate and print all candidate statements in all other mandated languages at no cost to the candidates.
C. The City Clerk shall estimate the total cost of printing, handling, mailing, and electronically distributing the candidate stat ement, and shall require each candidate filing a statement, as a condition of having their statement included in the Sample Ballot, to pay in advance an estimate of their pro rata share. Within thirty (30) days following the election, the City Clerk shall bill each candidate for any cost in excess of the deposit or shall refund any unused portion of the deposit. No candidate statement will be included in the Sample Ballot where the payment for the pro rata cost has not been timely made. However, if, pursuant to Burbank Municipal Code Section 2 -3-144, a candidate is determined to be indigent, the City Clerk shall print and mail the statement without requiring the indigent candidate to pay the fee in advance.
3. The City Clerk shall provide each candidate or the candidate's representative a copy of Burbank Municipal Code Section Nos. 2-3-143 and 2-3-144 and this Resolution at the time the Nomination Papers are issued.
4. All previous Resolutions establishing City Council policy on the payment for candidate statements are hereby repealed.
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2 5. This Resolution shall apply to the November 5, 2024 City of Burbank General Municipal Election, and shall have no further force or effect after the conclusion and collection of the cost of candidate statements for said Election as provided herein.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 4th day of June, 2024.
_s/Nick Schultz______________
Nick Schultz
Mayor
Approved as to Form:
Attest: Office of the City Attorney
_s/Kimberley Clark______________ By: _s/Joseph H. McDougall___ Kimberley Clark, City Clerk Joseph H. McDougall
City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
CITY OF BURBANK ) ss.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, Kimberley Clark, City Clerk of the City of Burbank, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Burbank at its regular meeting held on the 4th day of June 2024, by the following vote:
AYES: Anthony, Mullins, Perez, Schultz.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Takahashi.
_s/Kimberley Clark_______________
Kimberley Clark, City Clerk