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Resolution 2016-40RESOLUTION NO. 2016-40 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY, CALIFORNIA, SETTING PRIORITIES FOR FILING WRITTEN ARGUMENTS AND DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE AN IMPARTIAL ANALYSIS OF A CERTAIN MEASURE ENTITLED " GILROY URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY INITIATIVE" WHEREAS, a General Municipal Election will be held in the City of Gilroy, California, on November 8, 2016, at which will be submitted to the voters the following measure, which shall substantially read as follows: Shall an ordinance be adopted to amend the Gilroy General Plan to add an Urban Growth Boundary line (UGB) to the YES General Plan Land Use Plan Map, designate lands outside the UGB as Open Space and prohibit urban development on such lands, and provide that (with limited exceptions) such restrictions may not be amended or repealed until NO December 31, 2040 without a vote of the people? WHEREAS, Elections Code Sections 9281 through 9287 set forth the procedures for arguments in favor of, and in opposition to, any City measure and for rebuttal arguments; and WHEREAS, Elections Code Section 9280 allows for the preparation of an impartial analysis of a qualified measure, allowing the governing body to direct the city elections official to transmit a copy of the measure to the city attorney who shall prepare an impartial analysis of the measure showing the effect of the measure on the existing law, and the operation of the measure. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: 1. Submission of Ballot Argument and Impartial Analysis. a) The last day for submission of direct arguments for or against the measure shall be by 5:00 p.m. on August 12, 2016. b) The last day for submission of rebuttal arguments for or against the measure shall be by 5:00 p.m. on August 19, 2016. c) Direct arguments shall not exceed three hundred (300) words and shall be signed by not more than five persons. RESOLUTION NO. 2016-40 2 d) Rebuttal arguments shall not exceed two hundred fifty (250) words and shall be signed by not more than five persons; those persons may be different persons than the persons who signed the direct arguments. e) Subject to the Elections Code, the City Council authorizes the Mayor and/or any combination of five total council members to author and sign a written argument and rebuttal argument against the proposed measure. At the discretion of such Councilmembers, the argument or rebuttal argument may also be authored and signed by other members of the City Council, bona fide associations of citizens, or by individual voters who are eligible to vote. f) Pursuant to Elections Code Section 9285, when the City Clerk has selected the arguments for and against the measure, which will be printed and distributed to the voters, the City Clerk shall send copies of the argument in favor of the measure to the authors of the argument against, and copies of the argument against to the authors of the argument in favor. Rebuttal arguments shall be printed in the same manner as the direct arguments. Each rebuttal argument shall immediately follow the direct argument, which it seeks to rebut. g) The City Council directs the City Clerk to transmit a copy of the measure to the City Attorney who shall prepare an impartial analysis of the measure by August 19, 2016. 2. Effective Date. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its passage and adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council on this 5th day of July, 2016, by the following roll call vote: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: AULMAN, BRACCO, HARNEY, LEROE- MUNOZ, TUCKER, VELASCO and WOODWARD NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS NONE RESOLUTION NO. 2016-40 I, SHAWNA FREELS, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy, do hereby certify that the attached Resolution No. 2016 -40 is an original resolution, or true and correct copy of a city Resolution, duly adopted by the Council of the City of Gilroy at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 5`h day of July, 2016 at which meeting a quorum was present. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Official Seal of the City oil Gilroy this 6`h day of July, 2016. Shawna Freels, MMN-O City Clerk of the City of Gilroy (Seal)