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5. Submission of Ballot Argument and Impartial Analysis. (a) The last day for submission of direct arguments for or against the measure shall be by 5:00 p.m. on August 11, 2008. (b) The last day for submission of rebuttal arguments for or against the measure shall be by 5:00 p.m. on August 21, 2008. (c) Direct arguments shall not exceed three hundred (300) words and shall be signed by not more than five persons. (d) Rebuttal arguments shall not exceed two hundred fifty (250) words and shall be signed by not more than five persons; those persons may be different persons than the persons who signed the direct arguments. (e) The City Attorney shall prepare an impartial analysis of the measure by August 21, 2008. (f) Pursuant to California Elections Code Section 9282, the Revenue Ad Hoc Committee of the City Council ("Ad Hoc Committee") is hereby authorized to prepare a written argument in favor of the proposed measure, not to exceed three hundred (300) words, on behalf of the City Council. At the Ad Hoc Committee's discretion, the argument may also be signed by members of the City Council or bona fide associations or by individual voters who are eligible to vote on the measure. In the event that an argument is filed against the measure, the Ad Hoc Committee is also authorized to prepare a rebuttal argument on behalf of the City Council, which may also be signed by members of the City Council or bona fide associations or by individual voters who are eligible to vote on the measure. (g) Pursuant to California Elections Code Section 9285, when the City Clerk has selected the arguments for and against the measure, which will be printed and distributed to the voters, the City Clerk shall send copies of the argument in favor of the measure to the authors of the argument against, and copies of the argument against to the authors of the argument in favor. Rebuttal arguments shall be printed in the same manner as the direct arguments. Each rebuttal argument shall immediately follow the direct argument, which it seeks to rebut. 6. Effective Date. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its passage and adoption and the City Clerk is directed to send certified copies of this Resolution to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, to the County Clerk-Recorder, and the County of Alameda Election Department. 7. CEQA. This Resolution is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code Section 21000, "CEQA") pursuant to CEQA guidelines 15060, "Preliminary Review," subdivision (c)(2) in that it will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment; and 15378, "Project," subdivisions (2) and (4) of subdivision (b), in that this tax does not constitute a project under CEQA and therefore review under CEQA is not required. RESOLUTION NO. 2008-099