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Resolution Setting a Public Hearing on the Establishment of Regular City Elections in November of Each Even Year Commencing with the City Election in November 2016
Memorandum
Attached for your review and approval is a resolution establishing the date for a Public Hearing to solicit comment on the establishment of regular city elections in November of each even-year commencing with the City election in November 2016 for the election of Council members. Michigan Election law requires that a public hearing be held to receive public comment before approval of a Resolution Establishing the new Even-Year election cycle.
Currently Ann Arbor holds annual elections for the election of City Council with five (5) members of Council being elected in odd-year elections and five (5) members of Council being elected in even-year elections as provided for in Sections 13.1(a) and (b) of the Ann Arbor City Charter.
Section 642a(4) of the Michigan Election Code, MCL 168.642a(4), as added by 2012 PA 523, authorizes a city council of a city that holds elections for city officers annually to change its regular election schedule for future years to even-year city November elections by the adoption of a resolution in compliance with the requirements of Section 642 of the Michigan Election Code (MCL 168.642) provided that the terms of the city's elective officers elected at the last odd-year November city election are not shortened, and that those terms of elective city officers continue until their successors are elected and qualified at the next regular city election (MCL 168.644g (1)).
It is proposed that should City Council elect to make this change, that it be subject to the following conditions:
1. The change from annual elections to even-year elections (thereby consolidating odd-year elections with even-year elections) not take effect in 2016 unless the ballot proposal to increase the term of office for the Mayor from a two-year term to a four-year t...
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