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2.2 The County Clerk designates Molly Tayer as the "Contact Officer" to act as the primary liaison or contact between the County Clerk and the Jurisdiction. The Contact Officer shall act under the authority of the Clerk and shall have primary responsibility for the coordination of the Election for the Jurisdiction and performance of obligations assigned to the County Clerk hereunder. The Jurisdiction designates Nancy Varra, City Clerk, as its "Election Officer" who shall act as the primary liaison between the Jurisdiction, the County Clerk and the Contact Officer and who shall have primary responsibility for the management and performance of the Jurisdiction's obligations under this IGA. To the extent that the Code requires a "designated election official" within the Jurisdiction to perform tasks, the Election Officer shall act as such designated election official. Nothing herein shall be deemed or construed to relieve the County Clerk or the Jurisdiction's Governing Board from their official responsibilities for the conduct of the Election. 2.3 Term. The term of this IGA shall be from the date set forth above through December 31, 2012. 3. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COUNTY CLERK The County Clerk shall perform the following duties for the Election for the Jurisdiction: 3.1 Ballot layout. Upon receipt of the certified ballot text provided by the Jurisdiction pursuant to Section 4.2 and 4.3 below, the County Clerk will create the layout of the text of the ballot in a format that complies with the Code. The ballot text must be satisfactory to the Clerk. Furthermore, no content changes by the Jurisdiction shall be allowed after the September 7, 2012 certification of the ballot, without the approval of the County Clerk or as directed by the Clerk. The County Clerk will provide the Jurisdiction with a copy of the draft ballot for the Jurisdiction's review along with any instructions for modifications to the ballot layout and the time period within which the Jurisdiction must return the modified ballot to the County Clerk. If modifications are made by the Jurisdiction, the Clerk will review the changes upon receipt from the Jurisdiction of the modified ballot and notify the Jurisdiction that the ballot is approved or return the ballot for further modifications and time requirements. 3.2 Once the Jurisdiction has made all changes to the ballot layout as required by the County Clerk and the ballot is in 'final draft form,' the ballot text will be laid out by the Clerk and will be submitted to the Jurisdiction for final review, proofreading, and approval before the Clerk authorizes the printing of the ballots. The Jurisdiction shall return the 'final draft form ballot' proofs on or before September 7, 2012, the sixtieth day before the election. The Clerk is not responsible for ensuring that the final ballot text complies with the requirements of TABOR or any other constitutional or statutory requirement related to the text of ballot language. 3.3 The County Clerk will not accept any ballot content layout that include graphs, tables, charts or diagrams of any kind, as the Boulder County voting system cannot accommodate them. 3.4 Ballot printing and mailing. Identify and contract with a vendor to prepare and print the ballots; prepare a mail ballot packet for each active permanent mail-in voter("PMIV") electors within the Jurisdiction; address a mail ballot packet to each active PMIV elector within Pane 2 of 8