HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-01-11 - AGENDA REPORTS - CITY MGR REMOVAL ORD ADOPTO
Agenda Item: 5
1. CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
AGENDA REPORT
CONSENT CALENDAR
CITY MANAGER APPROVAL: 1
DATE: January 11, 2022
SUBJECT: SECOND READING AND ADOPTION OF AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL CODE
CONCERNING CITY MANAGER REMOVAL METHOD AND
NOTICE
DEPARTMENT: City Manager's Office
PRESENTER: Joseph Montes
RECOMMENDED ACTION
City Council:
1. Conduct a second reading and adopt an ordinance entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING
SECTION 2.08.100 OF THE SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING
CITY MANAGER REMOVAL METHOD AND NOTICE."
2. Approve the amendment to the City Manager Employment Agreement that reflects the
amendment to the Municipal Code.
BACKGROUND
At the November 23, 2021, City Council meeting in Closed Session, the City Council delivered
an annual performance evaluation for City Manager, Kenneth W. Striplin. The annual
performance evaluation highlighted exemplary performance, and the City Council would like to
demonstrate a vote of confidence and provide assurance to the City Manager of his continued
leadership. This ordinance will amend Section 2.08.100 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code and
state that the removal of the City Manager shall change from a majority vote to a 4/5 vote of the
whole Council in a regular Council meeting. The City Manager's Employment Agreement also
reflects this change to the Municipal Code.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION
Other action as determined by the City Council.
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FISCAL IMPACT
None by this action.
ATTACHMENTS
Ordinance
Third Amendment to City Manager Agreement
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ORDINANCE NO. 22-
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 2.08.100 OF THE SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL
CODE CONCERNING CITY MANAGER REMOVAL METHOD AND NOTICE
WHEREAS, the Santa Clarita Municipal Code currently establishes and outlines
guidelines for the office of the City Manager in Section 2.08; and
WHEREAS, the Santa Clarita Municipal Code Section 2.08.100 Removal: Method -
Notice reads "the removal of the City Manager shall be effected only by a majority vote of the
whole Council as then constituted, convened in a regular Council meeting;" and
WHEREAS, the City Council conducted an annual performance evaluation for the City
Manager highlighting exemplary performance; and
WHEREAS, the City Council would like to provide assurance and security to the City
Manager of his continued leadership; and
WHEREAS, the City Council would like to demonstrate a vote of confidence in the
current City Manager and the value he brings to the City.
NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA,
CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Section 2.08.100 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code is amended to
read as follows:
"2.08.100 Removal: Method -Notice.
The removal of the City Manager shall be effected only by a 4/5 vote of the whole
Council as then constituted, convened in a regular Council meeting."
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause
the same to be published as required by law.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this day of 2022.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
DATE:
MAYOR
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA )
I, Mary Cusick, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance 22- was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a
regular meeting of the City Council on the th day of 2022. That thereafter, said
ordinance was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council on the th
day of 2022, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCIL,MEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCIL,MEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCIL,MEMBERS:
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the foregoing is the original of Ordinance No. 22-
and was published in The Signal newspaper in accordance with State Law (G.C. 40806).
CITY CLERK
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THIRD AMENDMENT TO CITY MANAGER EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
This Third Amendment to City Manager Employment Agreement (the "Third
Amendment") is effective as of January 11, 2022 and is made and entered into by and between
the City of Santa Clarita and Kenneth W. Striplin, parties to the City Manager Employment
Agreement dated September 11, 2012 and amended November 13, 2012 and December 10, 2019
(the "Agreement").
Section 1. Effective January 11, 2022, the termination process provided for in Section
14.A. of the Agreement citing 2.08.100 of the Municipal Code of the City of Santa Clarita shall
change to provide that the removal of the City Manager shall be effected only by a 4/5 vote of
the whole Council as then constituted, convened in a regular Council meeting.
Section 2. Except as expressly amended in this Third Amendment, all other provisions of
the Agreement are unaffected and shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with its
terms.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Third Amendment the day and
year first above written.
Kenneth W. Striplin
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
A General Law City
By
Mayor
ATTEST
By
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM
City Attorney
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