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ADMINISTRATIVE MANUAL
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
Creation of Weld County Ballot Issue Title Board and Adoption of
Procedures for Setting Title on Local Ballot Issues
Latest Revision Date: June 10, 1996
Section 1-40-106(2), CRS, states a "Ballot Issue Title Board" is required to convene and set the title for
any local ballot issue submitted to each political subdivision, and requires that the local Ballot Issue Title
Board consists of the "designated election official and governing board of the political subdivision" and it
"shall meet at the regularly scheduled meetings of the governing board". By Resolution #941193 on
December 5, 1994, and modified by Resolution on June 10, 1996, the Board of County Commissioners
did create and adopt the following:
1. The Weld County Ballot Issue Title Board shall consist of the members of the Board of
County Commissioners and the Weld County Clerk and Recorder.
2. Said board shall convene for the purpose of setting titles for local ballot issues,.including
requests for an election pursuant to Article XV, Section 15-5 of the Weld County Home Rule
Charter, upon their submittal to Weld County, Colorado-, but shall not be required to do so
where the ballot issue is being proposed by the Board of County Commissioners itself.
3. The Chair, or in his or her absence, the Chair Pro-Tem, shall preside as Chair at any title
setting meeting of the Weld County Ballot Issue Title Board.
4. The Clerk to the Board of County Commissioners shall also serve as the Clerk to the Weld
County Ballot Issue Title Board.
5. Any request for the setting of a title for alocal ballot issue in Weld County, Colorado, which
must include a draft of the proposed title and any written argument the proponents wish to
set forth, shall first be received by the Weld County Clerk and Recorder, with the title-
setting meeting of the Weld County Ballot Issue Title Board to take place no earlier than the
date of the first regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of County Commissioners twelve
(12) days after the receipt of the request by the Clerk and Recorder.
6. The Ballot Issue Title Board shall, in setting title for any local ballot issue submitted to Weld
County, Colorado, follow the procedures and requirements set forth in Section 1-40-101,
et seq., CRS, specifically Section 1-40-106(3)(b), CRS. Any person with notice of the
request for title setting desiring to submit written argument shall file such arguments with
the Clerk to the Board within eight (8) days of receipt of notice of the request but no later
than two (2) working days prior to the hearing by the Board.
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