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Home My WebLink About2020-4199 - Ordinance - 07/23/2020ORDINANCE NO. 2020-4199 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING A GENERAL AND SPECIAL RUNOFF ELECTION TO BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 3, 2020, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING CITY COUNCILMEMBERS, PLACE 1, 3 AND 5, AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING CITY COUNCILMEMBER PLACE 4, BY THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION; ESTABLISHING EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS AND POLLING PLACES; AND MAKING PROVISIONS FOR CONDUCTING THE ELECTION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION: SECTION 1. A general and a special runoff election are ordered to be held by the City of College Station (the “City”) at the various polling places and election precincts within the corporate limits of the City, as hereinafter designated, on November 3, 2020, from the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. These general and special runoff elections will be conducted jointly with Brazos County and will be administered for the City by the Brazos County Elections Administrator, but these general and special runoff elections are not county-wide elections. At these elections the qualified voters of the City will elect City Councilmember Place 1, with a position of a two year term and Councilmembers for Places 3 and 5, with each position having a term of four years and for the purpose of electing City Councilmember Place 4 in a special election run off by the qualified voters of the City of College Station among the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes cast. SECTION 2. Should any candidate in the general election for Councilmembers for Places 1, 3 and 5 fail to receive a majority vote, then in that event a runoff election shall be ordered for such position in the general election to which no one was elected by a majority of votes case as required by Section 17 (e) of the City Charter, as amended. In the event it becomes necessary to conduct a runoff election, it shall be held on Tuesday, December 8, 2020. Canvass of the returns of the runoff election, if necessary, shall be held no earlier than the 8th day and no later than the 11th day following the date of the runoff election or on the next regular business day if the 11th day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or official state holiday. SECTION 3. The Vote Centers (polling locations) for College Station for these election shall be as follows: Vote Centers Vote Centers Arena Hall 2906 Tabor Road Bryan, Texas Church of the Nazarene 2122 E William J Bryan Pkwy Bryan, Texas Lincoln Center 1000 Eleanor College Station, Texas Castle Heights Baptist Church 4504 E. Hwy 21 Bryan, Texas Rudder Exhibit Hall - Texas A&M Campus, 401 Joe Routt Blvd. College Station, Texas First Baptist Church - Bryan 3100 Cambridge Drive Bryan, Texas College Station ISD Administration Building 1812 Welsh College Station, Texas Living Hope Baptist Church 4170 Texas 6 Frontage Rd College Station, Texas Parkway Baptist Church 1501 Southwest Parkway College Station, Texas Beacon Baptist Church 2001 East Villa Maria Road Bryan, Texas College Station City Hall 1101 Texas Avenue College Station, Texas A&M Church of Christ – Commons/Refinery 2475 Earl Rudder Fwy S. College Station, Texas Wellborn Community Center 4119 W. Greens Prairie Road College Station, Texas Fellowship Freewill Baptist Church 1228 W. Villa Maria Road Bryan, Texas Zion Church of Kurten 977 N. FM 2038 Kurten, Texas College Station Utilities Meeting & Training Facility 1603 Graham Road College Station, Texas Millican Community Center 22284 Pierce Street Millican, Texas Christ United Methodist Church 4201 State Hwy 6 College Station, Texas Brazos County Administration Building 200 S Texas Avenue Bryan, Texas Galilee Baptist Church 804 N. Logan Bryan, Texas Bryan Ballroom 703 Palasota Dr. Bryan, Texas College Heights Assembly of God 4100 Old College Rd. Bryan, Texas GW Williams Tabernacle 311 Waco St. /1216 Eureka St. Bryan, Texas Brazos Center 3232 Briarcrest Drive Bryan, Texas Texas A&M College of Medicine 8447 Riverside Parkway Bryan, Texas SECTION 4. Joint early voting shall be conducted by personal appearance and by mail. The period for early voting by personal appearance for the general and the special runoff e lection shall be October 19 through October 30, 2020. Optical scan ballots shall be used for early voting by mail and direct recording electronic voting machines shall be used for early voting by personal appearance. The Early Voting Clerk for said elections shall be the Brazos County Elections Administrator. She shall determine the number of election workers to be hired and arrange for training of all election workers. Early voting by personal appearance for the general and special runoff election shall be conducted jointly at the locations and on the following dates and times specified by the Brazos County Elections Administrator: Places: Brazos County Administration Building (Sanctuary) – 200 S Texas Avenue, Bryan, Texas. Arena Hall – 2906 Tabor Road, Bryan, Texas. Galilee Baptist Church – 804 N. Logan, Bryan, Texas. College Station Utilities Meeting & Training Facility – 1603 Graham Road, College Station, Texas Memorial Student Center - Room L504, Texas A&M University, Joe Routt Blvd., College Station, Texas. Dates and Times: October 19 – October 23 8:00 am – 5:00 pm (Monday – Friday) October 24 7:00 am – 7:00 pm (Saturday) October 25 10:00 am – 3:00 pm (Sunday) October 26 – October 30 7:00 am – 7:00 pm (Monday - Friday) SECTION 5. Early voting by mail ballot shall be conducted in accordance with applicable provisions of the Texas Election Code. The address of 300 East Wm. J. Bryan Pkwy, Suite 100, Bryan, Texas 77803, shall be the early voting clerk's mailing address to which ballot applications and ballots voted by mail may be sent for the City. SECTION 6. All early votes and other votes to be processed in accordance with early voting procedures pursuant to the Texas Election Code shall be delivered to the Early Voting Ballot Board at the Brazos County Election Administrator’s office. Early votes shall be counted at the central counting station. The Early Voting Ballot Board shall perform in accordance with applicable provisions of the Election Code. SECTION 7. A Direct Record Electronic (“DRE”) System, as the term is defined in the Texas Election Code, shall be utilized in connection with these elections. This system shall be utilized for all early voting as well as for all precinct voting conducted on Election Day. The Brazos County Elections 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 Brazos Center, 3232 Briarcrest Drive, Bryan, Texas. SECTION 8. The Brazos 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 9. The election will be held in accordance with the provisions of the Charter and Ordinances of the City of College Station and the laws of the State of Texas. SECTION 10. Notice of the elections, including Spanish translations thereof, will be published at least once in a newspaper published in College Station on or after October 5, 2020, and on or before October 16, 2020, and will be posted on the bulletin board at City Hall on or before October 5, 2020. SECTION 11. A writ of election as required by the Texas Election Code will be delivered on or before October 19, 2020, by the Brazos County Elections Administrator to the presiding and alternate judges of each election precinct in which the election is ordered to be held. SECTION 12. 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 13. 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 14. That this Ordinance shall be effective immediately upon adoption. APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of College Station this 23rd day of July, 2020. CITY OF COLLEGE STATION: Karl Mooney, Mayor ATTEST: Tanya Smith, City Secretary APPROVED AS TO FORM: City Attorney