Outcome
What City Hall decided
June 27
On June 27, City Council decided not to place a clean elections initiative on the November ballot.
The Fair Campaign Practices Commission recommended that the November 2006 ballot include a measure to amend the City Charter to appropriate $410,972 per year and make related changes to the Berkeley Election Reform Act to establish clean elections programs for both mayoral and city council election campaigns. The Commission's report can be found in the Public Documents table on the Expert Comments page.
However, the City Council rejected the recommendation, both for Mayoral elections (Spring, Moore, Worthington, Bates in favor; Capitelli, Olds opposed; Maio, Anderson and Wozniak abstained), and for City Councilmembers (Spring, Worthington in favor; Capitelli, Olds and Wozniak opposed; Maio, Moore, Anderson and Bates abstained).
On July 11, Worthington recommended that city council approve the placement of a campaign finance reform item on the November ballot. City Council rejected this recommendation (Worthington, Moore, Spring and Anderson in favor; Capitelli, Olds, Wozniak and Bates opposed; Maio abstained)