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MINUTES
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2001 - NOON
COUNCIL HEARING ROOM
990 PALM STREET - SAN LUIS OBISPO
1. CALL TO ORDER: 12:15 p.m.
2. ROLL CALL:
Present: Trish Avery, John Spatafore, Chuck Stevenson, Sandi Sigurdson,
Amy Shore
Staff: Lee Price, Jeff Jorgensen, Diane Reynolds
City Clerk Price provided additional agenda materials to Committee Members: Revised
Summary of Campaigns, Tentative Election Calendar for 2002 and the updated
Committee roster.
3. MINUTES:
Action: Moved by Stevenson/Avery to approve the Minutes for Thursday,
November 1, 2001; motion carried 5:0.
4. City Attorney Jorgensen responded to Committee Member’s questions regarding his
memo that addressed the issues of Contribution limits, Disclosure limits, Signs,
Aggregation of contributions.
5. City Clerk Price reviewed the Summary of Campaigns and requested that Ken
Schwartz’s name be struck from the 1998 list as he was appointed, not elected.
6. Contribution Limits: The Committee discussed the cost to run a campaign and the
importance of candidate name recognition in an election.
Action: The Committee agreed to not make any changes to the contribution limits
set forth in the ordinance with the exception of adding the language “name,
address, occupation and name of employer” under Section 2.40.050. C. 4.
Disclosure Limits: The Committee discussed a suggestion to raise the disclosure limit
to $35.
Public Comment: Marc Brazil spoke in opposition to raising the limit because he
believes it would potentially lead to less public disclosure of the names of contributors.
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He urged the Committee to maintain the current limit of $25.
Signs: The Committee discussed the pros and cons of removing the 30-day sign posting
limit wording stated in Sign Regulations Municipal Code Section 15.40.280 and adding a
time limit for removing the campaign signs. Vice Chair Stevenson argued against
eliminating the requirement that signs cannot be posted sooner than 30 days before the
election. Other committee members felt that because name recognition appears to be
important to small, local “grass roots” campaigns, candidates would be better served by
removing the restriction.
Action: Moved by Spatafore/Avery to eliminate the 30 day limitation from this
section and add language requiring that campaign signs be removed within 10
days following the election; motion carried 4:1 (Stevenson).
Action: The Committee agreed to recommend that Section 2.40.050 regarding
political campaign signs will be removed from the City’s Sign Ordinance and
included in the revised Election Campaign Regulations Ordinance.
City Clerk Price will look into adding language encouraging the voluntary use of recycled
materials in campaigns to the Election Handbook. She will enlist the help of Solid Waste
Coordinator Munds in developing appropriate language.
Aggregation of Contributions: The Committee requested that City Clerk Price in
consultation with City Attorney Jorgensen add examples of aggregations of contributions
to the Election Handbook.
5. PUBLIC COMMENT: None.
6. NEXT MEETING: Friday, December 7, 2001 at Noon.
7. ADJOURNED: 1:25 p.m.