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5. Publication of Measure. The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause notice of the measure to be published once in the official newspaper of the City of San Leandro in accordance with Section 12111 of the Elections Code and Section 6061 of the Government Code. 6. Request to Consolidate and Conduct Election and Canvass Returns. (a)Pursuant to the requirements of Section 10403 of the Elections Code,the Board of Supervisors of the County of Alameda is hereby requested to consent and agree to the consolidation of a General Municipal Election with the Statewide Election on Tuesday,November 4,2014 for the purpose of placing the measure set forth in Sections 2 and 4 on the ballot. (b) The County of Alameda Registrar of Voters is authorized to canvass the returns of the General Municipal Election. The election shall be held in all respects as if there were only one election and only one form of ballot shall be used. (c) The Board of Supervisors is requested to issue instructions to the County of Alameda Registrar of Voters to take any and all steps necessary for the holding of the consolidated election. (d) The City of San Leandro requests that the County of Alameda Registrar of Voters assign"Z"as the measure letter for consideration by the voters. (e) The City of San Leandro recognizes that additional costs will be incurred by the County of Alameda by reason of this consolidation and agrees to reimburse the County for any costs. 7. Submission of Ballot Argument and Impartial Analysis (a) The City Clerk shall set the dates for filing of the arguments for and against the ballot measure. (b) The City Clerk shall set the dates for filing the rebuttal arguments for and against the measure. (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. (0 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. 8. 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 and the Alameda County Registrar of Voters. 9 CEQA The approval of this Resolution is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act(Public Resources Code 21000 et. seq. "CEQA"and 14 Cal. Code Reg. Section 15000 et. seq. "CEQA Guidelines"). The transactions and use tax to be submitted to the voters is a general tax that can be used for any legitimate governmental purpose; it is not a commitment to any particular action. As such,under CEQA Guidelines section 15378(b)(4),the tax is not a project within the meaning of CEQA because it creates a government funding mechanism that does not involve any commitment to any specific project that may result in a RESOLUTION NO.2014-074 4