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Home My WebLink About1988-10-13 - RESOLUTIONS - GP COMMUNITY ADVISORY CMTE (2)per\ RESOLUTION NO. 88-133 0 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CREATING A GENERAL PLAN COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita ("City Council") finds that the fundamental nature of the City's General Plan, which is a long term guide for the development and growth of the community, causes it to be of great significance in establishing policy and regulating the municipal affairs of the citizens of the City of Santa Clarita ("City"); and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that it is in the best interests of the City to see to it that the City Cuuncil create a broad foundation of Citizen participation and is as fully informed as possible before establishing the City's General Plan; and WHEREAS, the City Council is desirous of formally receiving the opinions of both the residential, commercial dnd industrial communities within the City and the opinions of experts in the field of municipal planning before evaluating any and all recommendations for establishing the General Plan; and WHEREAS, the City of Council has insured that it will receive professional advice on such proposals in that the City has contracted with Phillips, Brandt a Raddick, a firm of expert General Plan consultants; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that it is necessary to formalize a mechanism to insure that the suggestions and ideas of the citizenry of the City of Santa Clarita are formally incorporated into the process of establishing the General Plan; NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita, California, DOES RESOLVE as follows: SECTION 1. Committee Review Required. No element of the General Pan will be enacted by the City Council until such time as (1) the Santa Clarita General Plan Community Advisory Committee has issued its written report regarding such general plan element, or (2) the time provided by this resolution for the submission of the report has lapsed. SECTION 2. Committee Structure. The Santa Clarita General Plan Community A visory ommittee (the "Committee") shall consist of twenty-one (21) members. Each member shall be a citizen of the City of Santa Clarita or resident of the Santa Clarita Valley and over the age of eighteen (18). The term of the Committee shall be two (2) years or until the General Plan is adopted by the City Council, whichever first occurs. The Committee shall be self governing and shall conduct its meetings in accordance with rules which may be adopted by the Committee. At the end of the second meeting, the Committee members shall select from among their ranks d Chairperson whose name shall be made known to the public and who shall have the power to address the City Council on behalf of the Committee. SECTION 3. Committee Appointments. The City Council shall appoint twenty-one (21) members and three (3) alternates from the reduced applicant pool (thirty (34) applications screened for the City Council by the City staff) to the Committee. The City Council shall select the twenty-one (21) members by any non-discriminatory or legal selection process which, in the Council's discretion, best insures a diversity of opinions on the Committee. Interest representation factors to be considered in making appointments to the Committee mdy include: 1. Business community, 2. Development industry, 3. Environmental experience, 4. Young and elderly age groups, S. Single family residents, 6. Multi -family residents, 7. Mobile home residents, a. Male and female persons; and 9. Minority and handicapped persons. Although many members may represent special interest groups, it is essential that each member approach and discharge his or her duties in an objective manner to assure that the overall goals of the community are achieved. SECTION 4. Selection of the Reduced Applicant Pool. The City staff shall advertise for up to three (3) Tays" in a newspaper of general circulation within the City the availability of appointed membership positions on the Committee. The deadline for the submission of applival-iuns -2- JFR/RES1362 by the citizenry for positions on the Committee shall be at least twenty-one (21) days from the last date of the afore- mentioned publication. At'the conclusion of the period designated for applying for an appointment to the Committee, City staff shall select thirty (30) qualified applicants from among the pool of applicants who have submitted completed applications, using any non-discriminatory or legal selection process devised by the City Manager or his agents for this purpose. However, in order to insure that the suggestions and ideas of private individuals are brought to the Council's attention, no fewer than one third of the applicants selected by the City staff shall be comprised of private individuals unless the cumulative number of private individuals who apply for membership on the Committee is fewer than ten. SECTION 5. Contents of A lication. No applica- tion shall be consideredcco`mp`lete at the time of the deadline for submitting applications, unless it is accompanied by at least three (3) independent letters of recommendation submitted in support of the applicant. Such letters of recommendation must be submitted by citizens of the City of Santa Clarita and must contain affirmative representations that the authors of the letters recommend ,-, the dpplicants appointment on the General Plan Community Advisory Committee. Any letter of recommendation which is not physically in the possession of the City staff on the day designated as the deadline for the submission of applications shall be disregarded. Applicants are allowed to have more than three (3) letters of recommendation submitted. However, any number of letters of recommendation submitted in excess of three (3) shall entitle the applicant to absolutely no special consideration whatsoever. SECTION 6. Duties. The duty of each member of the Committee shall be to participate in the meetings of the Committee as noticed by the Committee Chairperson. It shall be the duty of each member of the Committee (including the Chairperson) to cast his or her vote whenever entitled to pursuant to the Committee procedures adopted by the Committee. SECTION 7. Committee Reports. The Committee shall issue a written report signed by the Chairperson which shall include comments and recommendations no later than six weeks after the Chairperson physically receives draft materials from the Community Development Director or General Plan Consultants. Seven copies of the report shall be delivered to the City Clerk on or before the day the report is due. Not more than six weeks after receipt of the final draft -3- JFR/RES1362 01 General Plan, the Committee shall provide to Planning Commission and city Council the uut meats and recommendations of the Committee. SECTION 8. Removal of Member. Any resident of the City of Santa Clarita may petiEi n the City Council to remove a member of the Committee for his or her failure to validly cast a vote in less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the votes taken during any one year in which the member was entitled to cast a vote. For purposes of this Section a valid abstention or disqualification shall count as the casting of a vote. SECTION 9. The City Clerk shall certify the adoption oothis RResolution. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 13th day of October, 1988. -4- JFR/RES1362 -��g -_ cW_ HOWARD P. "'B CK' McKEO:' MAYOR r-- I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita, at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 13th day of October, 1488, by the following vote of the CounTiM AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS Hoyer, Darcy, Heidt, Koontz, McKeon NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CONTENT: CARL T N CITY ATTORNEY -5- JFR/RES1362