28. Voluntary expenditure limit
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CITY OF
CUPERTINO
City Hall
10300 Torre Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014-3255
Telephone: (408) 777-3223
FAX: (408) 777-3366
www.cupertino,org
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
SUMMARY
Agenda Item No. 2J
Meeting Date: February 6,2007
SUBJECT AND ISSUE
Reconsider the $l-per-voter voluntary expenditure limit for City Council candidates in 2007.
BACKGROUND
The City Council adopted Resolution 07-016, which set the voluntary expenditure limit at $1 per
registered voter as of the beginning of 2007, rounded off to the nearest thousand dollars.
This was done under the assumption that the number of registered voters would be the same or greater
than in previous years. However, the actual number of registered voters on January 2 was 24,430.
The drop in registered voters can be partly attributed to a recent purge of the voter registration rolls,
which removed those people who did not vote in the last two federal elections (8 years) and did not
respond to the preferred-language questionnaire. This is done by the County Registrar after each
statewide election, and it resulted in a countywide reduction of 60,000 voters. There is also an ongoing
purge by the Secretary of State's Office based on change-of-address forms filed with the Post Office.
The result was an expenditure limit of $24,000 for the 2007 election, which is $2,500 less than the
limit set for the 2005 election.
These are the number of registered voters in Cupertino numbers from prior years. (October was chosen
because there is a formal report published after each registration deadline).
October 19, 2004
October 18, 2005
October 18, 2006
January 2, 2007
28,246
25,368
25,521
24,430
Staff is bringing this resolution back for review in case the Council wishes to reconsider the amount of
the voluntary expenditure limit.
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RECOMMENDA nON:
1. Reconfirm an expenditure limit of $1 per voter, set by Resolution 07-016; or
2. Adopt a new resolution with a revised expenditure limit.
Submitted by: ~
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City Clerk
~ submission:
David Knapp
City Manager
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