Recommendation to receive and file the City Clerk's debrief report on the 2016 City of Long Beach Municipal Elections.  (Citywide)
15. Report from City Clerk Recommendation to receive and file the City Clerk's Debrief Report on the 2016 City of Long Beach Municipal Election Citywide. Kim. Adam Quirk. Good evening, mayor and council members before you as a debrief report on the 2016 City of Long Beach municipal elections. The report highlights administrative outcomes of both the primary and general elections, including the election administration, polling place. Consolidation and recruitment. Candidate Processing. Poll worker recruitment and training. Vote by mail services. Early voting. Voter education and outreach. Online services. Election Day. Operations. Canvass of returns and Voter Turnout. For fiscal year 2016, the Office of the City Clerk was budgeted 2.1 million to conduct the primary nominating and general municipal elections. Of the 2.1 million, we estimated 1.2 million for the primary election and 900,000 for the general municipal. The actual cost of the April 12th primary election was approximately $1 million, resulting in a cost savings of approximately $189,000, which will be used to cover the cost of the general municipal election should it exceed the original budgeted amount. We are awaiting the billing from the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder Clerk's Office. So the actual cost of the general runoff election is not available at this time. Approval of the suggested action at this time would allow the City of Long Beach to begin planning and preparation for future municipal elections. This concludes my staff report. I'm available to answer any questions. Councilwoman Pierce. Thank you and thank you very much for the report and the conversation we had just kind of going over how the elections went both in April and June. I think it's great that we were able to consolidate and see that instead of a 14 or 25% turnout, we were able to reach a 40% turnout citywide, which is fantastic. Really looking forward to working with you in November and working to see how we can continue to increase those numbers while saving our city dollars. Yeah. I'll leave it at that. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales. Just want to say thanks as well. I know it's a big feat to be able to take on all of this. And so you do a great job. And so it was great working with you on the Elections Oversight Committee. I pass it on to you now. Thank you. Thank you. And I just wanted to thank all the hardworking members of the city clerk department. I honestly I don't remember the last time Long Beach had that high of a voter turnout in any election. And I was trying to look and I actually couldn't find it. And so maybe you guys can can can look through the records, but to go and have that level of voter participation. Obviously thank you to you, but also to the public, because they went out and voted and they were engaged, I think to at least to me, there is there is no question that the consolidation of not having to do two separate ballots at two different tables had an impact on people's ability to go through the process. I'll also say that because this was the first time that we did this, it was new for a lot of people. So there were some there were obviously some challenges as far as not having immediate direct access to the clerk, because obviously it's through the county. I think you and I spoke about. I really missed the fact that we used to stamp the the ballot, which I know you've mentioned that that's not possibly something that we could do and add. So I just I would ask you and your team to see how look at ways with the election, with the new elections oversight committee and how we could make the process even better for the next time. That would bring some of the kind of Long Beach familiarity of the process, the pre consolidation, like the stamps and things that people like, but continue on that, you know, amazing voter turnout. We've got to keep that going. That that's one of the best voter turnouts that anyone had like, you know, locally. So I think that's really I was rereading the Press Telegram Press Telegram editorial about how how terrible it was the last time. And so it's nice to see the change. So with that, any public comment for this item? All right. Please cast your votes. Guess. Motion carries. Thank you. Next item, please. I believe it's 17. We did 16.