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Council Member Boyer
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September 9, 1997
TERM LIMITS: BOARDS AND
City Council
The City Council appoints members to the Planning Commission and Parks and Recreation
Commission with members serving four year staggered terms. Each Council Member
nominates an individual to serve on each commission, with the nominee subject to approval and
appointment by the entire Council. These appointees can now serve up to a maximum of two
terms and are not eligible to be reappointed until one full term has elapsed.
Concern has been expressed that by limiting the terms of commissioners, the City may lose
knowledgeable resources and institutional memory. With individual commission appointees
linked to Council Members and their terms of office, a mechanism already exists to facilitate
the rotation of commissioners. Every four years, commission appointments and reappointments
must be reaffirmed by a Council majority. Furthermore, should it become necessary to remove
a commissioner for any reason, a Council majority may execute that action.
Currently, Section 2.06.010 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code reads, "Except in cases where
the Mayor or City Council are not the appointing authority, no person shall be appointed to and
serve substantially more than two full consecutive terms upon any single board or commission,
and any person who has served substantially two full consecutive terms shall not be
reappointed to the same board or commission until at least the time equal to one full term has
elapsed." This provision was placed into the Municipal Code (Ordinance 87-2) upon
incorporation of the City in 1987, prior to the establishment of any City Commissions.
Introduce ordinance 97-14, waive further reading and pass to second reading.
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ORDINANCE NO. 97-14
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SANTA CLARITA,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 2.06 OF THE SANTA CLARITA
MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO THE TERM LIMITS OF BOARDS
AND COMMISSIONS
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Clarita has found that by limiting the terms of Commissions
the City may lose knowledgeable resources and institutional memory; and
WHEREAS, with individual Commission appointees linked to Council Members and their
terms of office, a mechanism already exists to facilitate the rotation of Commissioners; and
WHEREAS, the Council reserves the power to reaffirm Commission appointments and
reappointments every four years;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 2.06.010; subsection A shall be amended, through the deletion of the
final sentence, to read as follows:
A. Any member of a board or cormnission of this City may be removed from office at
any time, with or without cause, by a majority vote of the City Council, except in cases where the
Mayor or City Council are not the appointing authority (in which cases such regular appointing
authority may exercise. this power of removal). If a member absents himself without advance
permission of the board or commission or of his appointing authority, from three consecutive regular
meetings or from twenty-five percent of the duly scheduled meetings of the board or commission
within any fiscal year, his office shall thereupon become vacant and shall be filled as any other
vacancy.
Section 2. Section 2.06.010, subsection B shall remain unchanged.
Section 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause
the same to be published as required by law.
PASSED AND APPROVED this day of 1997.
Attest:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
CITY OF SANTA CLARTTA )
I, Sharon Dawson, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance No. was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading
at a regular meeting of the City Council on the day of 1997.
That thereafter, said Ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the day of , 1997, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
CITY CLERK
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