Santa Fe City Clerk, Yolanda Vigil announces that Mayor and City Councilor
Candidate Packets for the City of Santa Fe’s March 4, 2014 Regular Municipal
Election, will be available beginning at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 3, 2013
in the office of the City Clerk, Room 215, 200 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe.
Included in the candidate packets are nominating petitions as well as all forms
relating to Public Campaign Financing.
Section 4.03
of the City of Santa Fe Municipal Charter requires candidates for the elected
offices of Mayor and City Councilor in each of the city’s four districts to
submit nominating petitions containing a specified number of valid names,
addresses and signatures to be placed on the ballot as
follows:
For
Mayor: Any person
wishing to be a candidate for the office of Mayor shall file with the City Clerk
a nominating petition containing the signatures of at least one-half of one
percent of the registered voters of the City.
For City
Councilor: Any person
wishing to be a candidate for the office of City Councilor shall file with the
City Clerk a nominating petition containing the signatures of at least one-half
of one percent of the registered voters of the district which the candidate
seeks to represent.
Candidates
for the above listed offices may collect nominating petition signatures, on
forms provided by the City Clerk, between September 3, 2013 and November 2,
2013.
Any candidate
for Mayor or City Councilor may qualify as a participating candidate eligible to
receive payments from the Public Campaign Finance Fund. Participating Candidates
shall collect the requisite number of five dollar ($5.00) qualifying
contributions as follows:
Mayor
Candidates: Six
hundred (600) five dollar ($5.00) qualifying contributions from separate City of
Santa Fe qualified electors.
City
Councilor Candidates:
One hundred fifty (150) five dollar ($5.00) qualifying contributions from
separate qualified electors registered to vote in the council district in which
the candidate is running.
Candidates
for the above listed offices may collect qualifying contributions, on forms
provided by the City Clerk, between September 3, 2013 and November 18,
2013.
For more
information regarding candidate packets, please call the City Clerk at
505-955-6521.