CITY OF HOMER

HOMER, ALASKA

City Clerk/Canvass Board

RESOLUTION 04-58(S)

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HOMER, ALASKA CERTIFYING THE RESULTS OF THE CITY OF HOMER SPECIAL INITIATIVE ELECTION HELD JUNE 15, 2004.

WHEREAS, In compliance with the Homer City Code 4.35, the Canvass Board of the City of Homer has opened, counted, and tallied the votes on absentee ballots, including special needs ballots, found to be valid and made determinations on questioned ballots, and has opened, counted, and tallied those questioned ballots found to be valid, cast in the Special Initiative Election held on June 15, 2004; and

WHEREAS, The total number of voters voting in the City Election was 1701 and reflects the number of voters not the number of votes cast; and

WHEREAS, In accordance with Homer City Code 4.35, the Canvass Board of the City of Homer has opened and inspected the precinct reports, Election Central Logs and entered the results of the absentee and questioned ballots on the Certification of Election along with the results of the precinct counts.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of Homer, Alaska, that the Council hereby accepts and certifies the results of the Special Initiative Election for the City of Homer held June 15, 2004, as presented in the Certificate of Election by the Canvass Board, in accordance with the Homer City Code; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council notes the voter answer to the following question:

"Shall the Homer Zoning Code be amended by the adoption of Initiative Ordinance 04-18 to limit the footprint size of buildings the main use of which is retail or wholesale business to 66,000 (sixty six thousand) square feet in the Central Business, General Commercial 1 and General Commercial 2 Districts?

YES - 984 NO - 717 - Question passes.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Canvass Board's Certificate of Election be attached permanently as part of this Resolution.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Homer City Council this 21st day of June, 2004.

CITY OF HOMER

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ATTEST: JACK CUSHING, MAYOR

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MARY L. CALHOUN, CMC, CITY CLERK

Fiscal Note: NA.

CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION

City of Homer Special Initiative Election

June 15, 2004

We, the Election Canvass Board, duly appointed, of the City of Homer, Alaska hereby certify that the validated absentee and validated questioned ballots were opened, counted, and recorded at a legally authorized and convened meeting of the City of Homer Canvass Board, held June 21, 2004 and that the results of that count are hereon entered with the certified results of the votes counted for the precinct polling places via Accu-Vote Ballot Tabulation System and that the total results are recorded hereon.

Initiative Question: 66,000 square foot, foot print - CBD, GC1 and GC2	Precinct Homer No. 1 35-010	Precinct Homer No. 2 35-020		Absentee and Questioned and Special Needs that were Counted	Total Regular Voters	%	TOTAL	Underage Voters Precinct Homer No. 1 35-010	Underage Voters Precinct Homer No. 2 35-020	%
YES	410	444	--------	130	854	57.85	984	18	26	62.86
NO	332	256	-------	129	588	42.15	717	16	9	35.71
?	38	30	--------	259					ONE BLANK	1.43
Special Needs Voters	1	2		1			4
TOTALS	781	732			1513	37.73	1701	34	36
Registered Voters	2047	1963				42.42	4010

We further certify that there were 1442 Regular voters 259 Absentee voters, Special Needs Voters, and Questioned voters for a total of 1701voters that voted in this election. Percentage of voter turn out is 42.42%. Total registered voters for the City of Homer are 4,010 as of May 14, 2004.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of June, 2004.

Canvass Board - _______________________ ________________________ Staff ______________________________

Pauline Benson Norma Dudiak Jo Johnson, Deputy City Clerk II

Attest: ____________________________

Mary L. Calhoun, CMC, City Clerk