City of Piedmont
COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
DATE: December 19, 2022
TO: Mayor and Council
FROM: Sara Lillevand, City Administrator
SUBJECT: Canvass of Returns and Declaration of Election Results for the November 8, 2022 General Municipal Election
RECOMMENDATION
Approve the attached resolution accepting the official certificate of election results prepared by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters and declaring the results of the General Municipal Election held November 8, 2022.
BACKGROUND
City Charter Article VIII requires that city elections, whether general or special, be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California. The Elections Code states that the governing body of the city shall meet and declare the results of the election upon completion of the canvass and that they shall pass a resolution reciting the fact of the election. The attached resolution has been prepared in compliance with this code.
The canvass of votes as provided by the Registrar of Voters includes precinct by precinct results for Piedmont. With that said, the Registrar consolidated Piedmont’s six usual precincts into two for this election.
By: John O. Tulloch, City Clerk
RESOLUTION NO. ______
WHEREAS, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters has provided the official canvass of the regular municipal election held November 8, 2022, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council now finds and declares that the whole number of ballots cast and numbers of votes received are as set forth in the attached canvass, that Betsy Smegal Andersen, Tom Ramsey, and Jennifer Long have been elected to the Piedmont City Council and that Ruchi Medhekar and Lindsay Thomasson have been elected to the Board of Education;
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