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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA AND THE CITIES OF OAKLAND, BERKELEY AND SAN LEANDRO This Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU"), dated as of , 2010, is by and between the County of Alameda, hereinafter referred to as the "County" and the City of Oakland, the City of Berkeley and the City of San Leandro, each is hereinafter referred to as a "City," or together, the "Cities." WITNESSETH Whereas, the Registrar of Voters ("Registrar") for the County of Alameda conducts elections on behalf of the Cities and other jurisdictions; Whereas, the Cities desire to hold certain local elections using Ranked Choice Voting ("RCV")~ Whereas, the Registrar currently contracts with Sequoia, Inc. for its voting equipment and software; Whereas, the Registrar will have to enter into an agreement or amendment to its contract with Sequoia, Inc. to upgrade its voting equipment and software to conduct RCV elections pursuant to the Cities' requests; Whereas, the Cities have each agreed to reimburse the Registrar its proportionate share of the costs of upgrading the Sequoia voting equipment and software, as well as other setup costs attributable to RCV ("Proportionate Share") and the Registrar has relied on the Cities' agreement to reimburse the Registrar for such costs before entering into the agreement or amendment with Sequoia to upgrade its voting equipment to conduct RCV elections; Now, therefore it is agreed that each City shall reimburse the Registrar its Proportionate Share of the RCV setup costs on the General Terms and Conditions hereinafter specified in this MOU. The term of this MOU shall be from the Effective Date set forth in Section 2 and continue until no party to this MOU, including jurisdictions that join in the future, continues to hold elections that use RCV.