23-1590 Proposed Amendments to the Charter of The City of Casselberry

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Section 4.09. Section 7.01. Time and place of City election. Election of the Mayor�C'^r,r,;� and City Commission members shall be the same time as the State primary election or the Tuesday ten weeks prior to the general election, if no primary is held. Such election shall be known as the City election of the City of Casselberry, Florida, within the City for all purposes. Voting places shall be determined by the City Commission at either a regular or special meeting. Section 7.06. Procedure for placing names on ballot; alternative method of qualifying. Any elector may become a candidate for Mayor/Commissio or Commissioner by filing with the City Clerk an application to have his/her name printed on the ballot as a candidate for a seat specifically named from 12:00 p.m. Monday through 12:00 p.m. Friday, during regular business hours, for the five-day period during the third full week in May. Each person seeking election to the City Commission shall pay, at the time of qualifying for office, a qualifying fee to the City Clerk. The amount of the qualifying fee is one percent of the annual salary of the office. Additionally, candidates shall comply with F.S. § 99.093, as amended. Any person seeking election to the City Commission who is unable to pay the one percent qualifying fee without imposing an undue burden on his or her personal resources or on resources otherwise available to the person shall, upon written certification of such inability given under oath to the City Clerk, be exempt from paying the one percent qualifying fee and may qualify to have his or her name placed on the ballot by means of the following petitioning process: (1) Upon receipt of the written oath from the candidate, the City Clerk shall provide the candidate with petition forms in sufficient numbers to facilitate the gathering of signatures required pursuant to this Section. The petition forms shall indicate the seat for which the candidate is running. (2) When the candidate has filed the oath and received the petition forms prescribed herein, the candidate may begin to seek signatures on the petitions supporting his or her candidacy. Only signatures of qualified electors of the City of Casselberry shall be counted toward obtaining the number of signatures required in this subsection. The candidate shall obtain 100 signatures of Ordinance No. 23-1590 Page 8 of 10