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CLERK'S DEPARTMENT
Meeting: GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
Date: March 29, 2010 Resolution#:QP~?-a2a-ld By-law#: ,2(}/0-a 3 3
Report: CLD-009-10 File:
Subject• 2010 Municipal Elections -Special Voting Locations
RECOMMENDATIONS:
It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and Administration Committee
recommend to Council the following:
1. THAT Report CLD-009-10 be received; and
2. THAT reduced hours of voting in institutions and retirement homes on Voting Day
be approved as follows:
3. THAT the draft by-law attached to Report CLD-009-10 be approved by Council.
Submitted by: Reviewed by:
Pa rie, CMO Franklin Wu,
unici al Clerk Chief Administrative Officer
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CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON
40 TEMPERANCE STREET, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO L1C 3A6 T 905-623-3379
REPORT NO.: CLD-009-10 PAGE 2
1.0 BACKGROUND
The Municipal Elections Act, 1996, as amended, requires that voting must be
provided on the premises for institutions with 20 or more beds occupied by
persons who are disabled, chronically ill or infirm and for retirement homes in
which 50 or more beds are occupied. They locations are commonly referred to as
"special voting locations".
Institutions qualifying as special voting locations include: Whitecliffe Terrace
Retirement Residence, Marnwood Lifecare Centre, Fosterbrooke Long-Term
Care Facility, Lakeridge Health Bowmanville, Kingsway Arms, and Strathaven
Lifecare Centre. Voting hours per location are based on the analysis of time
required to process electors at each location, and have been established in
co-operation with the Administration staff of each facility.
It is recommended that election officials assigned to these special voting locations
conduct the vote during the specified hours. After the close of vote, the Election
officials working at the special voting locations would immediately proceed to the
Municipal Clerk's Office, 2"d floor, 40 Temperance Street, Bowmanville where the
ballot box and supplies. will be securely stored until 8:00 pm, at which time the
boxes will be unsealed by the election officials and the ballots counted.
The recommended voting hours for Clarington's special voting locations are as
follows:
2.0 Attachment:
Attachment 1 -Draft By-law
Attachment No. 1 to
Report CLD-009-10
THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON
BY-LAW NO. 2010-xxx
Being a By-law to provide for reduced hours
of voting in institutions and retirement homes
on Voting Day
WHEREAS section 46(3) of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996, as amended, provides that a
municipal council may pass a by-law with respect to reduced voting hours in voting places in
retirement homes or those institutions as defined in Section 45(7) of the Act, where the voting
place is only for the use of the residents;
NOW THEREFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF
CLARINGTON HEREBY ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. THAT the voting places listed below shall be open during the hours specified:
BY-LAW read a first, second and third time and finally passed this day of April, 2010.
Jim Abernethy, Mayor
Patti L. Barrie, Municipal Clerk