COUNCIL AGENDA : 10/21/2025
FILE : 25-1141
ITEM : 3.5
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND FROM: Toni J. Taber, MMC
CITY COUNCIL City Clerk
SUBJECT: SEE BELOW DATE: October 15, 2025
SUBJECT: Resolution of Support on State Proposition 50 Recommendation
As recommended by the Rules and Open Government Committee on October 15, 2025, direct the City Attorney to draft a resolution of support on behalf of the San José City Council for State Proposition 50 (The Election Rigging Response Act).
CEQA: Not a Project, File No. PP17-008, General Procedure and Policy Making resulting in no
changes to the physical environment. (Candelas, Cohen, Ortiz, Campos, Tordillos) [Rules Committee referral 10/15/2025 - Item C.2]
RULES COMMITTEE AGENDA: 10/15/25
ITEM:
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND
CITY COUNCIL
FROM: Councilmember Candelas
Councilmember Cohen
Councilmember Ortiz
Councilmember Campos
Councilmember Tordillos
SUBJECT: SEE BELOW DATE: 10/09/2025
APPROVED :
SUBJECT: RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT ON STATE PROPOSITION 50
RECOMMENDATION
Direct the City Attorney to draft resolution of support on behalf of the San Jose City Council for State Proposition 50 (The Election Rigging Response Act).
ANALYSIS:
As the largest city in Silicon Valley and one of California’s most diverse communities, the City of San Jose should protect the principle of fair representation. We believe strongly that the city should stand up for democracy and take an official stand in support of Proposition 50 on the November 2025 ballot, also known as the Election Rigging Response Act. Proposition 50 offers a countermeasure: a temporary, emergency legislative redrawing of California’s congressional districts in response to these assaults on representative democracy. San Jose, and California more broadly, should not be passive observers while other states weaponize the redrawing of electoral lines to silence or diminish the power of certain communities. We’re encouraged by cities and counties endorsing Proposition 50 such as the Counties of Marin, Napa, San Mateo, San Francisco and the Cities of Palo Alto and Los Angeles.
Proposition 50 would apply only to the congressional maps for the 2026, 2028, and 2030 elections. After the 2030 census, redistricting authority would revert to the independent California Citizens Redistricting Commission. This measure does not permanently dismantle the commission — it is a targeted and time -limited response to extraordinary circumstances.
C.2
HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
Subject: RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT ON STATE PROPOSITION 50
As a city, San Jose has long championed open governance, equitable civic participation, and responsiveness by public officials. Supporting Proposition 50 is consistent with those values.
The signers of this memorandum have not had and will not have, any private conversation with any other member of the City Council, or that member’s staff, concerning any action discussed in the memorandum, and that each signer’s staff members have not had, and have been instructed not to have, any such conversation with any other member of the City Council or that member's staff.