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El Dorado County Renaming of Officials Charter Amendment, Measure R (November 2014)
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An El Dorado County Renaming of Officials Charter Amendment, Measure R ballot question was on the November 4, 2014 election ballot for voters in El Dorado County, California. It was approved.
Measure R amended the county charter to replace the term "presiding officer" with "Chair," "presiding officer pro tem" with "Vice Chair," and "alternate presiding officer pro tem" with "Second Vice Chair." Changes proposed by Measure R were largely nominal and were designed to simply update the charter language and naming system.[1]
Election results
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 35,423 | 67.04% | ||
| No | 17,419 | 32.96% | ||
Election results via: El Dorado County Elections Office
Text of measure
Ballot question
The question on the ballot:[2]
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Shall section 206 of the El Dorado County Charter be amended to reflect current practice by replacing the words “presiding officer” with “Chair” and “presiding officer pro tem” with “Vice Chair” and “alternate presiding officer pro tem” with “Second Vice Chair.”[3] |
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Impartial analysis
The following impartial analysis was prepared for Measure R:[1]
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The County of El Dorado operates under a County charter that was ratified by the voters on November 8, 1994. The California Constitution provides that a county may adopt a charter to govern itself in regard to those specific matters that are identified in Article XI section 4. Voters may amend the charter by a majority vote. On July 29, 2014, the Board of Supervisors of the County of El Dorado (Board) placed this measure on the ballot seeking voter approval to amend El Dorado County Charter section 206. Measure R proposes to amend Charter section 206, entitled "Election of Officers", in order to update the language by deleting certain words that are no longer used and replacing them with words that are currently used by the Board as follows : delete "presiding officer" and replace it with "Chair"; delete "presiding officer pro tem" and replace it with "Vice Chair"; delete "alternate presiding officer pro tem" and replace it with "Second Vice Chair". A "yes" vote is a vote in favor of amending the El Dorado County Charter to delete the words no longer used by the Board and to replace them with words that are currently used by the Board that include "Chair" instead of "presiding officer", "Vice Chair " instead of "presiding officer pro tem", and "Second Vice Chair" instead of "alternate presiding officer pro tem". A "no" vote is a vote against amending current Charter section 206.[3] |
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| —Edward L. Knapp, El Dorado
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See also
- Local charter amendments on the ballot
- County governance on the ballot
- El Dorado County, California ballot measures
- November 4, 2014 ballot measures in California
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Voter's Edge, "El Dorado County 2014 General Election Information," accessed October 17, 2014
- ↑ El Dorado County Elections Office website, "List of ballot measures for November 4, 2014," accessed October 17, 2014
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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