Only members of the System who have been nominated as provided in this article shall be eligible to have their names placed on the ballot. Nominating petitions shall be furnished by the Board. These petitions shall be in substantially the following form:
NOMINATING PETITION FOR CANDIDATE FOR THE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION OF THE LOS ANGELES CITY EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM
We, the undersigned, hereby certify, each for himself/herself and not one for the other, that we are members of the Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System, and collectively we hereby nominate ______________ (insert name as it will appear on the ballot), a member of the System, for the office of employee member of the Board of Administration of the Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System for the term beginning July 1, 2____, and ending June 30, 2____.
If this is a special election to fill an unexpired term, the petition shall be modified at the end to read instead: "…for the remainder of the unexpired term ending June 30, 2_____."
Beneath the foregoing, and in columnar form, space shall be provided for the signature of each nominator, the department in which each nominator is employed, and the date on which the petition is signed by the nominator. Each person signing a petition shall write his/her name, department, and the date of signing. Space shall be provided on each petition for one hundred signatures and two, and only two, petitions shall be available for each candidate at the office of the System each year in which the term of office of an employee member of the Board expires.
In order to qualify for a place on the election ballot, the petitions shall be signed by no fewer than 100 employees nor more than 200 employees who are members of the System and shall be filed in the office of the System no later than 5 p.m. on a date to be established by the System that is within two weeks of the date that petitions are first made available to candidates. The City Clerk shall verify that those persons signing the petitions were members as of the date of signing, and shall certify the sufficiency or insufficiency of each petition, and shall so notify the nominated members by registered mail.
Along with the submission of the signed petitions, interested candidates have the option to include an occupational ballot designation and a 250-word typewritten statement of qualifications for office for the provision of information to the electorate. The occupational ballot designation shall be printed on the ballot immediately under that candidate's name and shall consist of a three-word designation of either (a) the current principal profession, vocation or occupation of the candidate, or (b) the principal profession, vocation or occupation of the candidate during the calendar year immediately preceding the filing of the candidate's nominating petition. The standards for occupational ballot designations contained in the City's Election Code are to be applied by the City Clerk as applicable, except that a candidate who is running for an elective office, which that person currently holds, shall have "(Incumbent)" printed on the ballot, immediately after that person's name, in addition to the candidate's occupational ballot designation. The statement of qualifications for office may include information on education, work experience, years of service, and other relevant qualifications and shall not exceed 250 words in length. Qualification statements that are submitted by the due date will be printed by the City Clerk and mailed with the ballot at no expense to the candidate. The Board shall provide a disclaimer stating that neither the Board nor the City Clerk has verified the accuracy of the information contained in the candidates' qualification statements. Should any candidate fail to submit an occupational ballot designation or a statement of qualifications by the specified due date, the appropriate sections for the occupational ballot designation and qualification statement will be blank.
Prior to the election, the City Clerk shall conduct a public drawing of the letters of the alphabet. The order in which the letters are drawn shall constitute the random alphabetical order by which the surnames of the candidates shall be arranged on the ballot. The term "surname" shall mean the name borne in common by members of a family for this purpose. Each ballot shall contain the names of all candidates who have qualified in accordance with this section. There shall be a blank space beneath these names in which the voter may write the name of any employee member of the System not printed on the ballot and for whom the voter may wish to vote.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 178,442, Eff. 4-15-07.