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REPORT - BALLOT ARGUMENTS FOR RENT STABILIZATION MEASURE
BACKGROUND: Under the California Elections Code, the City Council has the first priority to submit ballot arguments in favor of the proposed measure, and if any opposition argument is filed against the measure, to submit a rebuttal argument to that opposition argument. Alternatively, under the Elections Code, the Council may authorize one or more of its members to submit the argument. If the City Council chooses not to submit, or have its members submit, an argument in favor of the measure, then under the Elections Code, the arguments may be authored either by a bona fide association of citizens or by individual voters who are eligible to vote on the measure.
RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the Council, by motion, determine whether it wishes to submit a ballot argument and rebuttal argument in favor of the measure for the June 6, 2017 ballot to make effective those portions of Ordinance No. 4072 (Rent Stabilization and ...
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