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ORDINANCE NO. #-11
AN ORDINANCE CALLING A SPECIAL ELECTION IN THE CITY OF GILROY
FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUB1ITTTING TO THE ELECTORS OF SAID CITY THE
PROPOSITION OF INCURRING A BONDED INDEBTEDNESS OF SAID CITY
FOR THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION AND COMPLETION OF THE FOLLOW-
ING MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT, TO WIT: A MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM,
ASSENiliLY AND CONVENTION HALL, INCLUDING ALL LANDS, BUILDING,
FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT NECESSARY FOR MUNICIPAL
AUDITORIUM, ASS~ffiLY AND CONVENTION HALL PURPOSES; DECLARING
THE ESTI~~TED COST OF SAID MUNICIPAL IMPRO\~MENT, THE AMOUNT OF
THE PRINCIPAL OF SAID INDEBTEDNESS TO BE INCURRED THEREFOR,
AND THE MAXIMUM RATE OF INTEREST TO BE PAID THEREON; FIXING THE
DATE OF SAID ELECTION, THE W~NNER OF HOLDING THE SAME, ESTAB-
LISHING ONE ELECTION PRECINCT AND POLLING PLACE FOR SAID ELEC-
TION AND APPOINTING A BOARD OF ELECTION THEREFOR, AND PROVIDING
FOR NOTICE THEREOF.
WHEREAS the Common Council of the City of Gilroy by
resolution passed and adopted at an adj ourned
regular meeting
of said Common Council on the 22nd day of September, 1936, by
affirmative vote of more than two-thirds of all of its members,
did determine that the public interest and necessity demand the
acquisition, construction and completion of the municipal improve-
ment hereinafter mentioned, and did further determine the cost
of sa.id proposed municipal improvement will be too great to be
paid out of the ordinary annual income and revenue of sa.id
municipality, which resolution was duly entered on the minutes
of said meeting of said Common Council, and is now on file and of
record in the Clerk's office of said City; now therefore,
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BE IT ORDAIlmD by the Common Council of the City of
Gilroy, a municipal corporation, as follows:
Section l. That a special municipal election be and
is hereby ordered and will be held in said City of Gilroy on
Tuesday, the 27th day of October, 1936, at which election shall
be submitted to the qualified electors of said City the follow-
ing proposition of incurring bonded indebtedness of said City,
to wit:
PROPOSITION.: Shall the City of Gilroy incur
a. bonded indebtedness in the
principal amount of 131,000 for the object and
purpose of acquiring, constructing and complet-
ing the following municipal improvement, to wit:
A municipal auditorium, assembly and convention
hall, including all lands, building, furniture,
fixtures and equipment necessary for municipal
auditorium, assembly and convention hall purposes?
That the estimated cost of sa.id municipal improvement
set forth in said proposition is the sum of $105~580, and the
amount of the indebtedness proposed to be incurred for said
municipal improvement is the Sunl of $3l,000. That it is con-
templated that the difference between the estimated cost of said
improvement and the maount of the principal of the indebtedness
to be incurred, as above set forth, will be advanced by the
United States of America or any department or agency thereof.
That the City of Gilroy reserves the right, in ita discretion,
to advance such additi6nal moneys from its General Fund, as may
be available for that purpose, to the payment of any part of the
cost of said improvement and in addition to moneys derived from
the proceeds of the indebtedness to be incurred for that purpose.
Section 2. That the said Common Council proposes to
issue and sell bonds of said City of Gilroy in the said amount
of $31,000 for the object and purpose specified in said proposition
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set forth in Section I of this ordinance, if two-thirds of the
qualified electors voting on such proposition at said special
municipal election shall vote in favor of said proposition. Said
bonds shall be negotiable in form and of the character kno~ as
serial, and shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four
(4) per cent. per annum, payable semiannually.
Section 3. That the said Common Council does hereby
submit to the qualified electors of said City of Gilroy at said
special municipal election the said proposition set forth in
Section I of this ordinance, and designates and refers to said
proposition in the form of ballot hereinafter prescribed for use
at said election.
Section 4. That the polls at the polling place herein-
after designated shall be opened at six o'clock A.M. of said day
of election and shall be kept open continuously thereafter until
seven o'clock P.M. of said day of election, when the polls shall
be closed (except as provided in Section 1164 of the Political
Code), and the election officers shall thereupon proceed to can-
vass the ballots cast thereat.
Section 5. That said special election shall be held
and conducted, and the votes thereof canvassed, and the returns
thereof made, and the result thereof ascertained and determined
as herein provided; and in all particulars not prescribed by
this ordinance said election shall be held as provided by law for
the holding of municipal elections in said City. The returns of
said election shall be made out and signed by the election
officers and shall be by them deposited with the City Clerk,
together with the ballots cast at said election; and this
Common Council shall meet at its usual meeting place and canvass
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said,returns on Monday, the 2nd day of November, 1936, being
the first Monday after said election, at the hour of t~ (g)
o'clock, P.M.; and if upon such canvass it shall be found that
at least two-thirds of the qualified electors of said City voting
on said proposition at said election voted in favor of said
proposition, then bonds of said City of Gilroy in the said amount
specified in said proposition, to wit $31,000, will be issued
and sold by said City for the purpose therein mentioned.
Such bonds may be issued and sold by the Common Council as
said Common Council shall determine, but for not less than their
par value and accrued interest thereon to date of delivery.
Section 6. For the conduct of said special election
the entire Cityof Gilroy shall constitute one special election
precinct, the boundaries of which shall be coterminous with the
boundaries of said City. All of the general state and county
election precincts into which said City is divided for general
state and county election purposes are hereby consolidated into
said consolidated special election precinct. The polling place
therein and the election officers appointed to conduct said
election thereat are as follows, to wit:
SPECIAL MUNICIPAL BOND ELECTION CONSOIJDATED
PRECINCT NO.I
(consisting of a consolidation of precincts Nos.l,2,3,4 and 5 of
the City of Gilroy, as now established of record by the Board
of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara, State of California,
for general state and county election purposes.)
Polling Place:
City Hall, located at the northeast
'corner of Monterey Street and Sixth
Street, in said City of Gilroy.
Inspector:
Judge:
Judge:
Clerk:
Clerk:
w. S. Moore
George Gift
Myrtle Heiner
Ruby Zimmerman
I. Chabot.
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Section 7. All persons qualified to vote at municipal
elections in said City of Gilroy upon the date of the election
herein provided for shall be qualified to vote upon the proposition
submitted at said special election.
Section 8. The ballots to be used at said special
election shall have printed thereon the following:
No.
(This number to be torn
off by the Inspector)
: l~RK CROSSES (X) ON BALLOT ONLY
: WITH RUBBER STAMP, NEVER WITH
: PEN OR PENCIL.-
No.
(Fold ballot to this perforated line, leaving top margin exposed)
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MUNICIPAL TICKET
SPECIAL ~WNICIPAL BOND ELECTION
CITY OF GILROY
October 27, 1936
INSTRUCTIONS '1'0 VOTEHS: To vote on any. question,proposi tion
or constitutional amendment, stamp a
cross (X) in the voting square after the word "Yes" or after
the word "NO."
All marks except the cross (X) are forbidden. All dis-
tinguishing marks or erasures are forbidden and make the
ballot void. If you wrongly stamp, tear or deface this ballot,
return it to the Inspector of Election and obtain another.
PROPOSITION: Shall the City of Gilroy incur
a bonded indebtedness in the
principal amount of $3l,OOO for the object
and purpose of acquiring, constructing and
completing the following municipal improve-
ment, to wit: A municipal auditorium, assembly
and convention hall, incll.lding all lands,
building, ~lrniture, fixtures and equipment
necessary for municipal auditorium, assembly
and convention hall purposes?
YES
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NO
Section 9.
Each voter to vote for the said proposition hereby
submitted and for incurring said bonded indebtedness set forth in
said proposition shall stamp a cross (X) in the blank space oppo-
site the word "YES" on the ballot to the right of said proposition,
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and to vote against said proposition and against incurring said
indebtedness shall stamp a cross (X) in the blank space opposite
the word "NOn on the ballot to the right of said proposition.
A crOB. (X) stamped in the voting square on the ballot atter
the word "YES" shall be counted as a vote in favor of said propo-
sition, and to authorize the incurring of a bonded debt for the
amount ot and for the purpose specified therein, and a cross (X)
stamped in the voting square on the ballot atter the word nNO"
shall be counted as a vote against said proposition, and a refusal
to authorize the incurring of any bonded debt for the purpose
specified therein.
Section 10. This ordinance shall be published once a
day for a t least seven (7) days in "The Gilroy Evening Dispatch",
which is a newspaper published at least six (6) days a week in
said City of Gilroy, and suCh publication shall constitute notice
of said election. No other notice of the election hereby called
need be given and no sample ballots or polling place cards need
be mailed.
Secti on 11. This ordinance shall be forthwi th entered
upon the minutes of this Common Council and in the Ordinance Book
of said City. This ordinance being an ordinance ordering and
calling an election shall'take effect from and after its final
passage and approval.
PASSED AND ADOPTED the
by the following vote:
13th
day of October, 19;6,
Ayes: Nat Heiner, Ben stew~rt, George C. Milias Jr.
George M. Mason, Harry L. Wilkinson
Noe s : None
Absent: J. H. Rush
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The foregoing ordinance is presented to me for
approval and is hereby approved this 13th day of October, 1936.
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Attest:
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City CI
Mayor of
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