Drafter
Clerk 08/27/2007
Title
AN ORDINANCE related to elections; rejecting Initiative 25 and adopting a substitute ordinance related to an elected director of elections with both measures to be submitted to the voters at the November 6, 2007, general election.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Section 230.50 of the King County Charter specifies a county initiative process whereby the public may propose a county ordinance by filing with the county council petitions bearing signatures of registered county voters equal in number to not less than ten percent of the votes cast in the county for the office of county executive at the last preceding election for county executive.
2. On March 21, 2007, as provided for in K.C.C. 1.18.030, the clerk of the council approved as to form an initiative petition, identified as Initiative 25, proposing an amendment to the King County Charter to create the nonpartisan elective office of county director of elections.
3. On June 19, 2007, the sponsor of Initiative 25 filed five thousand nine hundred eighty-five petitions with the clerk of the council.
4. The clerk of the council reviewed all of the Initiative 25 petitions and, on July 9, 2007, forwarded all unaltered petitions to the King County records, elections and licensing services division director to canvass and count the names of the legal voters thereon.
5. On August 22, 2007, the King County records, elections and licensing services division certified that a minimum of fifty-two thousand eight hundred seventeen signatures of registered voters were required for Initiative 25 to qualify as a proposed ordinance, and that names and petition signatures of legal voters in that amount had been canvassed and counted.
6. Section 230.50 of the King County Charter allows the King County council to offer to the voters an alternative to a proposed county initiative. Under that section, the council may reject the proposed initiative ordinance and adopt a substitute ordi...
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