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CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE
<br /> City of Riverside
<br /> February 12, 2004, 6 p.m.
<br /> Cai Baptist University
<br />Yeager Center Lecture Hall, A112
<br />8432 Magnolia Avenue
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<br />MINUTES
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<br />PRESENT:
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<br />ABSENT:
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<br />STAFF PRESENT:
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<br />ALSO PRESENT:
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<br />Chair Eric Haiey and Members Barry Johnson, Marjorie von Pohle, Gar
<br />Brewton, Connie Leach, Damon Castillo, Dale McNair, Ray Higgins,
<br />Dorothy Bailey, Rusty Bailey, Mamia McQuern, Rose Mayes, Mike Teer,
<br />Sharon Tyrrell, Art Garcia, and Stan Stosel
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<br />Ben Johnson (excused
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<br />Gregory Priamos, Susan Wilson, Tricia Ruiz, Colleen Nicol, and Janis
<br />Lowry
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<br />James Anderson, D. E. Kessinger, Sylvia Martin-James, Chani Beeman,
<br />David St. Pierre, Phyllis Pursell, Jennifer Vaughn-Blakely, Susan Nash,
<br />Katie Greene, Sue Mitchell, and others
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<br />Chair Eric Haley convened the Charter Review Committee meeting at 6:05 p.m. and welcomed
<br />Sharon Tyrrell to the Committee and summarized the future meeting schedule and topics to be
<br />deliberated.
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<br />ORAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE
<br />There were no oral comments presented at this time.
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<br />ELECTIONS
<br />City Clerk Colleen Nicol reviewed the Charter sections governing election of Mayor and
<br />Councilmembers, run-off elections, election dates, initiative, referendum, recall, nominations,
<br />measures, current and proposed voting systems, election costs, mail-in ballot elections, voter
<br />turnout, permanent absentee voting, comparison of polling place vs. mail-in ballot elections for
<br />special municipal elections, and community proposals including instant run-off voting, and
<br />nomination of Councilmembers from the Ward with election at-large.
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<br />INSTANT RUN-OFF VOTING
<br />Nanette Pratini of the California IRV Coalition distributed brochures and reviewed the
<br />mechanics of instant run-off voting. Voters rank their choices in order of preference. She feels
<br />the benefits of instant run-off voting are that it saves the cost of a run-off election, allows for
<br />transfer of vote to an alternate candidate when a voter's candidate is unsuccessful, empowers
<br />people whose candidate is not as popular to go to the polls and feel they are represented,
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<br />CRC-30
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