Agenda - 09-02-2021; 12-8 - Information Item - Memorandum - Transmittal of the Final Report from the BOCC Elections Advisory Group (BEAG) on the Process for Electing County Commissioners in Orange County

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54 3 and the at-large election method. Group Member Jonathan Weiler voiced his agreement with Group Member Catterall's comments. Group Co-Chair Hazirjian shared that she had been reviewing both Report documents and that potentially the Group consider using the Jenkins document as the principal document and incorporate the substance of Recommendations/Suggestions section from the Bryan document into the Jenkins document under the first bullet point. 5. Approval of Specific Revisions to the Draft Report Group Member Arab suggested that the Group consider, as detailed by Group Co-Chair Hazirjian, incorporating the language from the Bryan document ("Response" section on page 8) into the Jenkins document (on page 6 under the first bullet point). Group Member Arab further commented, as Group Member Catterall had suggested, that the Group consider incorporating the at-large, last two paragraphs language from page 10 of the Bryan document into page 6 of the Jenkins document under the second bullet point. Group Member Arab followed up and suggested that the Group consider incorporating the one paragraph single member district language from page 9 of the Bryan document into the Jenkins document on page 6 under the third bullet point. Group Co-Chair Hazirjian asked if any Group members would like to make a motion based on the suggestions. Group Member Sykes motioned for the Group to proceed with the Jenkins document and incorporate the "Response" language, the at-large language, and the single member language from the Bryan document into the Jenkins document as discussed. Group Member Bremer seconded the motion. Group Co-Chair Hazirjian asked Mr. Wilder to call the names of Group members for voting purposes. Group members voted by roll call on the motion, and the motion was approved unanimously. Group Co-Chair Hazirjian and Judge Bryan asked if there were any other potential revisions to consider for the Report document. After a brief discussion on information County Attorney John Roberts had provided regarding multi-member districts, it was determined there were not any additional proposals from Group members. Mr. Wilder requested some direction from the Group regarding the Appendices. He noted that the current proposed Appendices totaled 295 pages and shared examples of the content and number of pages for each. He shared that there were no materials to include for the proposed Appendix J, thereby meaning that it needed to be deleted and the subsequent appendices re-lettered appropriately. Mr. Wilder then asked if the Group wanted to consider eliminating one potential portion of Appendix F that consisted of 110 pages detailing voting results for Orange County Commissioner elections from 2000 through 2020. The 110 pages had been emailed to Group members as information, and were not specifically discussed at any meetings. He also noted that the documents were public information readily available through the Board of Elections. Group Member Arab commented that she did not think the voting results