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The San Leandro City Council held a special meeting on October 13, 2026, to address a ballot error by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters that threatened the implementation of district-based elections approved by Measure F. The sole action item was a resolution requesting the Registrar to tabulate and report election results by precinct for Council Districts 1, 2, 3, and 5 in the November 3, 2026 election. The resolution passed unanimously. Note: The agenda and transcript list the meeting as Monday, October 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM, while the meeting timestamp provided is 2026-10-13 15:00 UTC.
Okay, it's 701 and I'm calling to order the San Lando City Council meeting. Today's a special meeting, and it's October 12th, 2026. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance and stand if you're able to. Madam Clerk, would you please take our role to establish quorum? Council member James Aguilar. Present. Council Member Victor Aguilar. Councilmember Sue Boen. Present. Councilmember Vivero Swalton. Present. And Mayor Gonzalez. Present. The City of San Lionel conducts orderly meetings to fulfill its mandate. Discriminatory statements for conduct that would potentially violate the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and/or California Fair Employment and Housing Act. California Penal Code Sections 4 or 30415 are per se disruptive to meeting and will not be tolerated. Please see the city council handbook and city council meeting rules of decorum for more information. Madam Clerk, your announcement, please. If you would like to make a public comment during the meeting, you can do so in person or via Zoom. If you are present at the meeting, please complete a speaker card and submit it to the city clerk before the item is presented. Then wait for public comment on that item to be called. If you wish to participate in public comment via Zoom, you can use the raise your hand tool when the item is called. Okay, so we go on to our only action item for tonight's council. We do have the opportunity to adopt a resolution to call upon the register of voters to uh report on our results for the upcoming election in a way that is consistent with our charter. At this point in time, I will turn to city attorney Rich Pierota to introduce our item. Thank you, Mayor, and good evening, council. Uh this is a background and summary of uh the proposed action this evening, knowing full well that what was published as a staff report has slightly changed, and uh I will describe those changes this evening. Uh and when I say changes, it's because staff has been discuss in discussions with the registrar voters since last Friday and uh in including this today, uh this afternoon, this morning as well. So uh we're working closely with the registrar of voters. Uh on June 16th, 2025, the council adopted ordinance number 2025-009, and that changed the city's election method from a hybrid method where council members were nominated from a council district but elected at large to a district-based election method, in which the candidate must reside within an election district that is a divisible part of the city and is elected only by voters residing within that election district while the mayor is nominated and elected by all voters citywide. And that ordinance, 2025-009, established the city charter amendment process for the city's transition to a district-based election system. So on February 2nd, 2026, the council adopted a resolution to call for a special municipal election for the city charter amendment ballot measure to convert to a district-based election method. And that election was consolidated with the June 2nd, 2026 statewide primary election. And of course, that election was conducted by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters. This was the ballot measure to amend the city charter to change the district-based election method, and Measure F passed overwhelmingly with 87.33% in favor to 12.67% opposed. That regist the registrar set up certified the June 2nd, 2026 election results on June 26th, and the City Council declared the results on July 6th by adopting resolution number 2026-00094.