Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Voters will see a lot of mayoral issue
Ad must be rerun; mailings going out
BY HOWARD WILKINSON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Hamilton County Board of Elections is running a full-page legal ad on Issue 4 in The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Post three times instead of the required two because the ad omitted an important paragraph.
In the meantime, Cincinnati City Council is spending $47,000 to send the ballot language on Issue 4, which calls for direct election of Cincinnati's mayor, to all 215,430 registered voters in Cincinnati.
Elections Director Bruce Taylor said rerunning the faulty ad will cost about $4,000. He is still looking into how the mistake happened.
Cincinnati voters go to the polls May 4 to decide Issue 4.
The full-page ad first ran April 15, but omitted a paragraph spelling out what happens under the proposed system if a Cincinnati mayor does not veto or sign council legislation within five days of passage. The paragraph explained that the ordinance becomes law.
Without that paragraph, the ordinance could be interpreted to mean that a mayor could prevent an ordinance from becoming law by simply not signing it.
Issue 4 calls not only for direct election of the mayor, but gives the mayor additional powers, including a veto, which can be overridden by council with six votes.
The corrected full-page ad ran Monday and will run again April 26.
But by then, Cincinnati voters will have seen the ballot language — a condensed version of the ordinance — in their mailboxes.
Two weeks ago, council voted 8-0 to send out the mailer, but, last week, four council members balked when they learned the price tag would be $56,000.
Council members Tyrone Yates and Minette Cooper called a special meeting of council Monday, and the ordinance was brought up again, this time at a reduced cost of $47,000. The measure passed 5-4, with Mr. Yates, Ms. Cooper, Todd Portune, Paul Booth and Jim Tarbell voting in favor.
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