The City Council of Salt Lake Ci

The City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah, met in Regular Session on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 12:15 p.m. in Room 326, City Council Office, City County Building, 451 South State.

The following Council Members were present:

Carlton Christensen Van Turner Eric Jergensen Dave Buhler Nancy Saxton Dale Lambert

The following were absent:

Jill Remington-Love Mayor Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson

Cindy Gust-Jenson, Executive Council Director; Larry Spendlove, Senior City Attorney; Sonya Kintaro, Recorder’s Records Manager/Election Coordinator; and Chris Meeker, Chief Deputy City Recorder, were present.

Councilmember Lambert presided at and conducted the meeting.

#1. RE: The Mayor and City Council will convene as the Board of Canvassers at their regular meeting place to examine the validity of the absentee ballots, and then direct the absentee ballots and provisional ballots to be counted electronically by the Salt Lake County Clerk. The Board of Canvassers will charge the City Recorder’s Office to prepare a canvass to be presented to the Board of Canvassers at the regularly scheduled City Council meeting at 7:00 p.m. on October 11, 2005.

Councilmember Turner moved and Councilmember Christensen seconded to recess as the City Council and convene with the Mayor as the Board of Canvassers, which motion carried, all members present voted aye.

Sonya Kintaro, Records Manager/Election Coordinator, said the Council had the unofficial election results. She said these results were copied from an automatic tabulation report prepared by the Salt Lake County Clerk’s Office. She said State Code required that absentee ballots be reviewed by the Board of Canvassers. She said absentee ballots could be received up to noon on the day of the official canvas. She said the received ballots were separated into categories of acceptable or not acceptable. She said it was the Council’s final decision as to whether or not the ballots were acceptable. She said one ballot received today was signed by the voter on September 26^th but the postmark was illegible.

Councilmember Christensen moved and Councilmember Turner seconded to not accept the ballot in question, which motion carried, all members present voted aye except Councilmember Saxton who voted nay.

Councilmember Buhler asked if someone verified that all the ballots were sent by registered voters. Ms. Kintaro said County Elections had verified the ballots.

Councilmember Jergensen moved and Councilmember Buhler seconded to reject the packet of ballots rejected by the County, which motion carried, all members present voted aye.

Councilmember Buhler moved and Councilmember Christensen seconded to accept the nine valid ballots, which motion carried, all members present voted aye.

Councilmember Christensen moved and Councilmember Buhler seconded to recess as the Board of Canvassers until 7:00 p.m. when the official tabulation would be received, which motion carried, all members present voted aye.