Ordinance No. 562-15 ORDINANCE NO.562-15
AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
CHANGING THE METHOD BY WHICH
DIRECTORS OF THE DISTRICT ARE ELECTED AT-LARGE r
BE IT ENACTED by the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District, County of El Dorado, State of California, as follows:
SECTION 1 —POLICY AND PURPOSE
T'he purpose of this Ordinance is to change the method by which Directors of the
South Tahoe Public Utility District are elected at-large.
SECTION II—DEFINITIONS
For the purposes of this Ordinance, the terms used herein are defined as follows:
A. The District—The South Tahoe Public Utility District.
B. The Board of Directors—The Board of Directors of the South Tahoe
Public Utility District.
C. Directors—The members of the Board of Directors.
SECTION III—FINDINGS
The Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility District, County of El
Dorado, State of California,make the following findings:
1. Since the District's formation, the District's Directors have been elected at
large to an office designated as either Seat Number 1, Seat Number 2, Seat Number 3,
Seat Number 4 or Seat Number 5 in accordance with Public Utilities Code section
15956(a);
2. Pursuant to Public Utilities Code section 15956(b), the Board may adopt
an ordinance that requires candidates for directors at-large need not designate a numbered
office. The ordinance shall instead require that the candidates receiving the greatest
number of votes districtwide as there are directors to be elected shall be elected to the
II� Board of Directors; and,
3. During the past few years, the Board of Directors has periodically
considered whether to change the method by which the Directors are elected such that
candidates for Director at-large need not designate a numbered office and that the i
candidates seeking election for Directors at-large receiving the greatest number of votes
districtwide as there are Directors to be elected shall be elected to the Board of Directors.
SECTION IV—CHANGE IN THE METHOD BY WHICH
DIRECTORS OF THE DISTRICT ARE ELECTED AT-LARGE
1. Candidates for Director at-large need not designate a numbered office.
2. The candidates receiving the greatest number of votes districtwide as there are
Directors to be elected shall be elected to the District's Board of Directors.
3. T'he District's Clerk of the Board of Directors is directed to publish this
Ordinance in accordance with the laws of the State of California.
4. The District's Clerk of the Board of Directors is directed to send a copy of this
Ordinance to the Counties of El Dorado and Alpine after this Ordinance has
become effective.
SECTION V—SEVERABILITY
If any section, subsection, subdivision,paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of
this Ordinance and its implementing rules and regulations is for any reason held to be
unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions of this Ordinance. The Board of Directors declares and determines that it would
have passed section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase
thereof of this Ordinance irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections,
subsections, subdivisions,paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases may be determined to
be unconstitutional or invalid.
SECTION VI—EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance changing the method by which Directors of the South Tahoe
Public Utility District are elected at-large shall take effect 30 days after its passage.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public
Utility District at its duly held regular meeting on the 18th day of June, 2015,by the
following vote:
AYES: Cefalu, Jones, Vogelgesang, Sheehan, Wallace
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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Randy Vogelgesang, President
South Tahoe Public Utility District
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AT'TEST:
Melonie Guttry, Clerk of the ard