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249 REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETIOO HElD ON FEBRUARY 17, 1959 On the 17th day of February, 1959, at 9100 A.M., the Governing Body of the City of San Marcos met in adjourned regular session, Mayor C. M. Allen presidingl I Present werel Mayor C. M. Allen Aldermenl ~. R. Beecroft W. M. Davis B. D. Hillburn Herman Korff City Manager B. R. Fuller Deputy City Secretary Joann Hayes City Attorney"Ernest Morgan Absent werel H. W. "Steakley The meeting was called to order by Mayor Allen. City Attorney Morgan explained the implications of the Constitutional Amendment passed in November of 1958 (codified as Article XI, Section II of the Constitution) concerning the leggth of the tern of office of city officials. It was not~d that the length of term of city officials could be changed from 2 years to 4 years if passed by a majority of the eligible voters of the city concerned. This would not affect the term of the city officials in office at the time this was passed by the voters, but would apply to the officials elected at that and all subsequent elections. No provision had been included in the state amendment whereby the cities might arrange to maintain "staggered" terms of office for city officials under the four year terms. Alderman Hillburn intro- duced an ordinance entitled AN ORDINANCE CALLING FOR AN ELECTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF VOTIti3 ON THE QUE~TION OF WHETHER THE TERM OF THE OFFICE~ OF THE CITY OF ::IAN MARCOS TEXAS SHALL BE EXTENDED fROM TWO YEARS TO FOUR YEARs AS AUTHORIZED BY SECTION II OF ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION OF TEXAS, and moved its adoption. This motion was seconded by Alderman Korff. The ordinance was read in full and upon roll call the ayes and nayes were as followSl I Ayesl Beecroft Davis Hillburn Korff Nayesl None Whereupon the Mayor declared the ordinance passed, approved, and adopted. For the benefit of the Council the City Attorney quoted from Article 2.02 of the Texas election codd which reads as follows I I "Art. 2.02. In cities and towns. All provisions of this Code which prescribe qualifications for voting and which regulate the holding of elections shall apply to elections in cities and towns. The deadline for filing to get one's name on the ballot in elections in cities and towns shall be thirty (30) days before the date of the e~ection. In towns of cities incorporated under the general laws, the governing body may provide for city or town elections that 'there shall be one or more polling places; and, in such case, the certified list of poll taxpaying voters for all election precincts in which voters reside who are to vote at any such polling place shall be used therefor. In all cities and towns in which the number of electors at the last municipal election does not exceed four hundred (400) in humber, but one election poll shall be opened at any municipal election; and all officers of such towns and cities to be elected sball be voted for at such poilil." After some discussion a motion was made by Alderman Davis, seconded by Alderman Beecroft, that the city have only one polling place at the election to be held on April 7, 19594 and designated that polling place to be in the City Hall. The motion was carried by a unanimous vote of the Council. It was the common consent of the Council to leave open the problem of staggering the terms of the City Officials until the 1960 election, on the assumption that other cities faced with the same problem will have tested the legality of the various solutions by that time. "C ::: I ~ C/J Q 091