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Consider a resolution ordering a Special Option Election for "The Legal Sale of all Alcoholic Beverages Including Mixed Beverages" to be held on November 6, 2018.
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State law requires that in order to hold a local option election an application must be made containing the signatures of 10 registered voters as well as an ad must have been run in the newspaper. On May 3, 2018, an application to hold a local option election to make all of Round Rock wet for all alcolohic beverages including mixed beverages was submitted for the City Clerk's office with the proper number of signatures as well as copy of the ad that ran in the Statesman.
Once an application is received, the CIty Clerk's office must issue the petitions and the applicants have 60 days to obtain signatures of registered voters in the city of Round Rock equal to 35% of the voters that voted in the last gubernatorial election. We issued 1500 pages of petitions between May 8 and June 1, 2018. The applicants were obtain at least 6,556 signatures of qualified Round Rock voters. On June 13,we received 1,110 pages of petitions were back from the applicants. The Williamson County Voter Registrar's office assisted with the verification of the signatures and determined that the petitions contained more than the 6,556 required signatures.
Since the applicants obtained the required signatures, the election code requires the City Council to call an election at their next regular meeting on or after the 30th day after the petitions were submitted. The 30th day is July 12, 2018. This resolution calls the special option election which be held on the next uniform election date on November 6, 2018.