Fiscal Note
This reorganization of boundaries will result in an estimated eight additional polling places. For each of these polling places, $1,000 will be needed for the purchase of a used vote tabulator, $2,000 for a used Automark machine, and $664 for tabulator and Automark maintenance agreements. Total equipment related costs are therefore estimated at $3,664 per location, or $29,312 for the entire City.
In additional, voters must be notified of polling location changes. Notification costs per voter are estimated at $0.40. As one-quarter to one-third of the City's 172,000 registered voters will likely require notification, these costs should be expected to range from $17,200 to $22,933.
Total costs can therefore be expected to range from $46,512 to $52,245. Funding is not currently available within the Clerk's Office budget, and will be sought as a supplemental appropriation later in the year.
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AMENDED Repealing and recreating Renumbering current Section 15.02 to Section 15.06 and creating new Section 15.02 of the Madison General Ordinances to update existing Aldermanic Ward Boundaries.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance establishes new wards and polling places, effective January 1, 2012. New Sec. 15.03, MGO, combines these wards into aldermanic districts. The ordinance is recommended by the City's Ad Hoc Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
Current Section 15.02 entitled "Wards and Ward Boundaries" of the Madison General Ordinances is hereby repealed and recreated renumbered to Section 15.06 and new Section 15.02 entitled "Wards and Ward Boundaries" is created to read as follows:
"15.02 WARDS AND WARD BOUNDARIES.
For the purpose of local elections beginning January 1, 2012, wards and ward boundaries are established as follows and as shown on a map entitled "City of Madison Aldermanic Districts and Wards, June 29, 2011" on file in the Office of the City Clerk, and a polling place is designated as follows for each of the wards:
(Please see BODY in Attachments for complete text.)
EDITOR'S NOTE:
Current Section 15.02 entitled "Wards and Ward Boundaries" reads as follows:
(Please see CURRENT SEC. 15.02 in Attachments for complete text.)