California: City Council approves more time to gather signatures for recall elections
A City Council committee Monday approved allowing more time to gather signatures for a recall election and widening the window during which a special election would be held.
The recommendations green-lighted by the Economic Development and Intergovernmental Relations Committee and sent to the City Council for its consideration are part of a larger effort to streamline the recall process, stemming from last year’s effort to remove then-Mayor Bob Filner from office.
“This is something we’ve been cleaning up over the last year bit-by-bit,” Councilman Mark Kersey said. The Filner recall effort revealed “inconsistencies in the city’s own rules,” he said.
The current recall procedure in the San Diego municipal code allows recall proponents 39 days to collect signatures, the ability to continue gathering names while signatures are being verified and to have a 30-day supplemental period to get more people to sign-on if the initial effort falls short.
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