Ord 2013-044/Ordering a General and Special Election to be held on November 5, 2013 for electing a city council member for Place 1 and Place 2 and establishing early voting locations and polling places for the election

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utilized for all early voting as well as for all precinct voting conducted on election day. The Hays County Election Administrator will appoint a programmer, who shall prepare a program for the automatic tabulating equipment. Ample voting equipment shall be provided for early voting and in each of the various precincts on election day. The central counting station is established as the Hays County Elections Administrator's office, 712 S. Stagecoach Trail, San Marcos, Texas. SECTION 11. The Hays County Elections Administrator will appoint the Early Voting Ballot Board, a Presiding Judge of the Central Counting Station, a Tabulation Supervisor of the Central Counting Station, and a Central Counting Station Manager. SECTION 12. The election will be held in accordance with the provisions of the Charter and Ordinances of the City of San Marcos and the laws of the State of Texas. The deadline for filing by candidates for the position of Council Member Place 1 and Councilmember Place 2 is 5:00 p.m. on August 26, 2013. SECTION 13. An executed copy of this Ordinance will serve as proper notice of the election. SECTION 14. Notice of the election, including a Spanish translation thereof, will be published at least once in a newspaper published in San Marcos on or after October 6, 2013 and on or before October 26, 2013, and will be posted on the bulletin board at City Hall on or before October 13, 2013. SECTION 1.5. A writ of election as required by the Texas Election Code will be delivered on or before October 21, 2013 by the Hays County Election Administrator to the presiding and alternate judges of each election precinct in which the election is ordered to be held. SECTION 16. Testing of the automatic tabulating equipment will be performed and notice thereof will be given in accordance with Subchapter D of Chapter 127 of the Texas Election Code. SECTION 17. The rate of compensation to be paid judges, clerks, and assistants to the Central Counting Station Presiding Judge and Tabulation Supervisor for services rendered during the election will be compensated at the rate of no more than $10.00 per hour. SECTION 18. The additional compensation to be paid judges who deliver returns of the election is established at $25.00. SECTION 19. If any portion of this Ordinance is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions of this Ordinance shall remain in full force and effect. SECTION 20. The importance of this Ordinance creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity, and the provisions of the Charter requiring that ordinances be presented at two separate meetings be waived and, this Ordinance will take effect immediately upon adoption. CONSIDERED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED on August 20, 2013. 19