City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: JUNE 8, 2016
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Public Hearing, Second Reading and Final Passage of an Ordinance to Establish T.C. Williams High School as a Temporary Replacement for the Chinquapin Recreation Center Polling Place for the November 8, 2016 Presidential Election. [ROLL-CALL VOTE]
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ISSUE: Consideration of an ordinance to establish T.C. Williams High School as a temporary replacement for the Chinquapin Recreation Center polling place for the November 8, 2016 Presidential Election.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council pass on first reading and set for public hearing, second reading and final passage on June 18, 2016, an ordinance (Attachment 1) to establish T.C. Williams High School as a temporary replacement for the Chinquapin Recreation Center polling place for the November 8, 2016 Presidential Election.
BACKGROUND: The Alexandria Electoral Board, which is comprised of three bipartisan members who are appointed by the Alexandria Circuit Court for staggered three-year terms, is responsible for making recommendations to City Council concerning changes in precinct boundaries and polling places and for establishing new precincts. City Council has the statutory authority to make these changes. In making its recommendations to Council, the Electoral Board is primarily concerned with ensuring that precincts and polling places conform to legal requirements, are a manageable size, have suitable voting facilities and are fully accessible.
The Electoral Board has determined that the space currently used for voting in the Chinquapin Recreation Center is not large enough to accommodate the estimated turnout of 2,000 voters in that precinct for the Presidential Election on November 8, 2016.
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