2024/08/20 City Council Resolution 2024-072RESOLUTION NO.2024-072
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROHNERT PARK
RESCINDING RESOLUTION 2024-035 CALLING FOR A CONSOLIDATED GENERAL
MUNICIPAL ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 5, 2024, CANCELLING THE NOVEMBER 5, 2024
GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION, AND APPOINTING THE ONLY NOMINATED
PERSONS FOR CITY COUNCIL IN DISTRICTS 1, 3 & 4
WHEREAS, pursuant to § 10229(a) of the Elections Code of the State of California, as of the close
of the nomination period on August 9, 2024, there are not more candidates than offices to be elected from
each legislative district and only one person has been nominated to be elected from each district;
WHEREAS, under those circumstances, § 10229 of the Elections Code allows the City Council
to take the following course of action :
1. Appoint to the office the person who has been nominated; or
2. Hold the election if either no one or only one person has been nominated; and
WHEREAS, the City Clerk prepared and published on August 15, 2024, her Certification that
there were not more candidates than offices to be elected and only one person has been nominated to be
elected from each legislative district, a true and correct copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ROHNERT PARK DOES HEREBY RESOLVE, DECLARE, DETERMINE AND ORDER AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: Resolution 2024-035 calling for a consolidated General Municipal Election on
November 5, 2024, is hereby rescinded, and the City Clerk is directed to work with the County of Sonoma
Board of Supervisors to remove references to the City's general municipal election from all County ballot
materials.
SECTION 2: Pursuant to § 10229(a) of the Elections Code of the State of California, the City
Council hereby appoints the following persons to the office(s) to which they were nominated and are
considered to be the same as being elected:
NAME
OFFICE
TERM
Samantha Rodriguez
Member of the City Council, District 1
2024-2028
Gerard Giudice
Member of the City Council, District 3
2024-2028
Jackie Elward
Member of the City Council, District 4
2024-2028
SECTION 3: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Resolution and enter
it into the book of original resolutions.
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DULY AND REGULARLY ADOPTED this 201h day of August, 2024.
ATTEST:
Sylvia Lopez Cuevas, City C erk
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M. Kenyon, City Attorney
Attachment: Exhibit A
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Susan H. Adams, Mayor
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CITY CLERK'S CERTIFICATION THAT THERE ARE NOT MORE
CANDIDATES THAN OFFICES TO BE ELECTED AT THE NOVEMBER 5, 2024
GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION FOR THE CITY OF ROHNERT PARK
I, Sylvia Lopez Cuevas, City Clerk of the City of Rohnert Park do hereby certify that
pursuant to § 10229, Elections Code of the State of California, to the following facts relating to
the General Municipal Election to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024:
As of the close of the nomination period on August 9, 2024, there are not more candidates
than offices to be elected to the three district City Council positions. The persons so nominated
are:
Samantha Rodriguez
2024-2028
Member, City Council District 1
Gerard Giudice
2024-2028
Member, City Council District 3
Jackie Elward
2024-2028
Member, City Council District 4
That § 10229 of the Elections Code allows the following course of action by the City
Council where only one person has been nominated for any office that is elected by legislative
district:
1. Appoint to the office the person who has been nominated.
2. Hold the election if only one person has been nominated.
A notice of these facts will be published on August 15, 2024, in the Press Democrat
pursuant to §6061 of the Government Code. The City Council will meet on Tuesday, August 20,
2024, at 5:00 p.m., in the Rohnert Park City Council Chambers, 130 Avram, Rohnert Park,
California to either make the appointments or direct an election to be held.
The persons appointed, if any, shall qualify and take office and serve exactly as if
elected at a municipal election for the office.
If, by the 75th day before the municipal election, no person has been appointed to the
offices pursuant to (1) above, the election shall be held.
If the City Council makes an appointment pursuant to § 10229, Elections Code, the City
Clerk shall not accept for filing any statement of write-in candidacy which is submitted after the
appointment is made.
s/ Sylvia Lopez Cuevas
City Clerk & Elections Official
Dated: August 15, 2024
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
(2015.5 C.C.P.)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
County of Sonoma
I am a citizen of the United States and a
resident of the county aforesaid: am over
the age of eighteen years, and not a party
to or interested in the above entitled
matter. I am the principal clerk of the
printer of The Press Democrat, a
newspaper of general circulation, printed
and published DAILY IN THE City of
Santa Rosa, County of Sonoma; and
which newspaper has been adjudged a
newspaper of general circulation by the
Superior Court of the County of Sonoma,
State of California, under the date of
November 29, 1951, Case number 34831,
that the notice, of which the annexed is a
printed copy (set in type not smaller than
nonpareil), has been published in each
regular and entire issue of said newspaper
and not in any supplement thereof on the
following dates to wit:
The Press Democrat - Legal Notices
08/15 - 08/15/2024
I certify (or declare) under penalty of perjury,
under the laws of the State of California, that the
foregoing is true and correct
Dated 08/15/2024
at Santa Rosa, California
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Stefanie Puckett
CITY CLERK'S CERTIFICATION THAT THERE ARE NOT MORE
CANDIDATES THAN OFFICES TO BE ELECTED AT THE NOVEMBER
5, 2024 GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION FOR THE CITY OF
ROHNERT PARK
I, Sylvia Lopez Cuevas, City Clerk of the City of Rohnert Park do hereby
certify that pursuant to § 10229, Elections Code of the State of California, to
the following facts relating to the General Municipal Election to be held on
Tuesday, November 5, 2024:
As of the close of the nomination period on August 9, 2024, there are not
more candidates than offices to be elected to the three district City Council
positions. The persons so nominated are:
NAME TERM OFFICE
Samantha Rodriguez 2024-2028 Member, City Council District 1
Gerard Giudice 2024-2028 Member, City Council District 3
Jackie Elward 2024-2028 Member, City Council District 4
That §10229 of the Elections Code allows the following course of action
by the City Council where only one person has been nominated for any office
that is elected by legislative district:
1. Appoint to the office the person who has been nominated.
2. Hold the election if only one person has been nominated.
A notice of these facts will be published on August 15, 2024, in the Press
Democrat pursuant to §6061 of the Government Code. The City Council will
meet on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, at 5:00 p.m., in the Rohnert Park City
Council Chambers, 130 Avram, Rohnert Park, California to either make the
appointments or direct an election to be held.
The persons appointed, if any, shall qualify and take office and serve
exactly as if elected at a municipal election for the office.
If, by the 75th day before the municipal election, no person has been
appointed to the offices pursuant to (1) above, the election shall be held.
If the City Council makes an appointment pursuant to § 10229, Elections
Code, the City Clerk shall not accept for filing any statement of write-in can-
didacy which is submitted after the appointment is made.
s/ Sylvia Lopez Cuevas
City Clerk & Elections Official
Dated: August 15, 2024
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