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<br />4 <br /> <br />All overlapping jurisdictions except for the West Bay Sanitary District have acted to <br />change their elections to even-year elections beginning in 2018 (Table 1). <br />Table 1: <br />Election Cycles of City of Redwood City Overlapping Jurisdictions <br />November Odd-Year Elections November Even-Year Elections <br />City of Redwood City United States of America <br />West Bay Sanitary District (1 shared <br />election precinct) State of California <br /> County of San Mateo <br /> Belmont-Redwood Shores School District <br /> Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Wards 6,7 <br /> Redwood City School District <br /> San Mateo County Community College District <br /> San Mateo County Harbor District <br /> San Mateo County Office of Education (Trustee Area 6) <br /> Sequoia Healthcare District <br /> Sequoia Union High School District <br /> <br />Additionally, based on Council discussion at the October 17, 2016 meeting, staff <br />contacted representatives from the Redwood City School District who extended their <br />Board Members’ terms by twelve months and moved their elections to even years. <br />According to District representatives, the District is not looking to revisit their decision. <br />Election Costs <br />Election costs are directly related to the number of registered voters within a jurisdiction <br />and the number of local agencies participating in an election, as each agency shares in <br />the total cost of administering an election. The past four City-held elections cost an <br />average of $74,000. Specifically, the City’s past two election costs were: $64,000 for the <br />2013 election and $51,000 for the 2015 election, with the City paying an additional <br />$30,000 for all mail election community outreach. In order to provide future estimated <br />election costs for standalone, and vote by mail elections, the City contacted the San <br />Mateo County Elections Office, which provided the following cost estimates. <br />If the City has a standalone election in 2017 and 2019 it would bear all election costs for <br />materials and administration, estimated at $425,000 per election. A standalone election <br />is a City election that has no overlapping agencies such as school districts, with similar <br />precincts and voting sites holding an election. Election costs include sample ballots, <br />official ballots, mailings, polling places, voting machines, counting software, IT staff and <br />San Mateo County Elections Office staff. If a ballot measure were included with a <br />8.B. - Page 4