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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1992-11-24 - AGENDA REPORTS - SUCCESSION MAYOR (2)NEV BUSINESS DATE: SUBJECT: DEPARTMENT: BACKGROUND AGENDA REPORT City Manager Approval lve� Item to be presented bO Councilmember Pederson November 24, 1992 SUCCESSION OF MAYOR City Council Councilmember Pederson will make a presentation of recommendations to evaluate and modify the existing policy regarding the succession of Mayor. RECOMMENDATION Council to discuss succession of Mayor policy. ATTACHMENT Policy Voting Information 0 -i- ��n..t� . � �+rvrr� GbtRtif°►�icsL Agenda Item: -4u CITY OF SANTA CLARITA POLICY/PROCEDURE NUMBER I_1 _RIGINAL ISSUE December 22, 1988 CURRENTISSUE SUPERCEDES EFFECTIVE December 22, 1988 EFFECTIVE SUBJECT ANNUAL MAYOR'S ROTATION LEGISLATIVE RELATIONS (CITY COUNCIL) STANDARD MANAGEMENT PROCEDURE The purpose of this procedure is two fold: 1. To enunciate the City Council policy for the rotation of Mayor; and 2. To foster a cooperative spirit among Councilmembers by depoliticizing the selection of the position of Mayor. II. GENERAL It is the declared policy of the City Council to rotate the position of Mayor at the end of each calendar year. The rotation is to take place the second meeting in December. The order of rotation is based on the highest number. of votes achieved beginning with: Howard McKeon Jan Heidt Jo Anne Darcy Carl Boyer Dennis Koontz These current Councilmembers supercede a newly elected Councilmember who may achieve a higher number of votes. In the event of two or three new Councilmembers being elected, the new Councilmembers will be rotated through the Mayor's position based upon the highest number of votes achieved following the above noted priority .list. III. AUTHORITY Adopted by City Council December 22, 1988. ,t:Gecfrge A Caravalho City Manager 1st Election Results (County Ballot - 1987) Howard "Buck" McKeon 9,855 Jan Heidt 8,402` Jo Anne Darcy 7,601 Carl Boyer 6,585 Dennis Koontz 6,164 2nd Election Results - 1990 Jill Klajic 4,093 Carl Boyer 4,062 Jo Anne Darcy 3,563 3rd Election Results - 1992 Jan Heidt 6,748 George Pederson 5,693 CITY OF SANTA CLARITA I N T E R O F F I C E M E M 0 R A N D U M DATE: November 23, 1992 TO: Mayor Klajic and Councilmembers FROM: George Pederson, Councilmember SUBJECT: Recommended change in succession of Mayor The present policy adopted on December 22, 1988 outlining the policy of the annual. rotation of Mayor is discriminatory, unfair, and out of date. The policy is based on the results of the City's first election held in November, 1987. Two of the first five Councilmembers are no longer members of. the City Council, having been replaced in the elections of 1990 and 1992. The present policy would not have permitted the present Mayor (Jill Klajic) from assuming office for 1992. Had this policy been strictly adhered to, Councilwoman Jan Heidt should have been elected Mayor in December, 1991, thus leaving then Councilwoman Jill Klajic unable to assume this position until Councilwoman Darcy and Councilman Boyer had served their terms. That decision would have been patently unfair. The same position exists today. The present policy denies me becoming Mayor for the entire fouryears of my term since it calls for the rotation to first include Councilpersons Heidt, Darcy, and Boyer. This policy only perpetuates and guarantees the favored position for rotation to the three Councilpersons who were elected to the original Council. It denies equal access to the position of Mayor to any who are elected in subsequent elections. In addition, if the present policy is followed, will allow all of the Councilpersons other than Mayor Klajic. to have served two terms prior to my serving one term. I am recommending that the City Council suspend Policy and Procedure 11-1 (Annual Mayor's Rotation) .for a period of thirty days to enable a committee designated by the Ctiuncil to re -write a policy that more fairly and equitably addresses this issue. Pending that forthcoming recommendation, I also request that the City Council on December 8, 1992 proceed with the election of Councilwoman Jan Heidt as the next Mayor but delay the selection of the Mayor Pro -Tem. I recommend that.this committee consist of Mayor -elect Jan Heidt and myself so that both a member of the original Council and a non-member of the original Council will participate in arriving at a recommendation., GP/gmd/2556 cc: George Caravalho, City Manager Ken Pulskamp, Assistant City Manager Carl Newton, City Attorney Begin Document 11111111111111111 Warning; This form MUST be a clean copy off the ORIG11NAL masters supplied. Second generation copies, copies from copies, or copies with speckles, wrinkles, poor toner or other deficiencies may tender this form useless. ©1999. 0 0