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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1998-06-09 - AGENDA REPORTS - BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS (2)CITY OF SANTA CLARITA AGENDA REPORT NEW BUSINESS City Manager Approval: Item to be presented b . Council Member Weste DATE: June 9, 1998 SUBJECT: TERM LIMITS: BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS DEPARTMENT: City Council RECOMMENDED ACTION Discuss and provide direction to staff. BACKGROUND On September 9, 1997, the City Council voted 3-2 to retain term limits for Members of City Boards and Commissions. Council Member Weste requests that the City Council revisit the issue. 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 passed. Concern has been expressed that by limiting the terms of the commissioners, the City may lose knowledgeable resources and institutional memory. With individual commission appointees linked to the Council Members and their terms of office, a mechanism already exists to facilitate the rotation of commissioners. A Council majority must affirm every four years commission appointments and reappointments. Furthermore, should it become necessary to remove a commissioner for any reason, a Council majority may execute the action. However, it is also noted that without commissioner term limits, the Council and Commission may be isolating itself from a pool of talent available within the City. Anilda Iten-M oil 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 executive terms not shall be reappointed to the same board or commission until at least 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. ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS Other action as determined by Council. FISCAL IMPACT None ORDINANCE NO. 98-18 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 commission 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 '1998. MAYOR ATTEST: IftW(ai 01.i4 STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CITY OF SANTA CLARITA) 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 , 1998. That thereafter, said Ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the day of , 1998, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: CITY CLERK MS/mpm/tems.wpd ORDINANCE NO. 98-18 AN URGENCY 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. The City Council does find, determine and declare as follows: A. The City of Santa Clarita currently has an active recruitment in process for appointments to the Planning Commission and Parks and Recreation Commission; B. The City Council is scheduled to make appointments at its regularly scheduled meeting to be held July 14, 1998; C. It is desired to have this ordinance in effect to allow the recruitment and appointment process to proceed as scheduled allowing the maximum flexibility to appoint the best candidates to the respective positions; D. The City Council finds that the adoption of this ordinance as an urgency measure is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety. Section 2. 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 commission 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. Egieept in eases where the Mayor- of City Getineil are fiet the appeinting authefity, no shall not be reappointed te the safne beafd or- eefamission until at least the tiffle equal te eft tefin has elapsed, Section 3. Section 2.06.010, subsection B shall remain unchanged. Section 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Clarita hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion may be declared invalid or unconstitutional. Section 5. This ordinance shall be introduced, passed and adopted at one and the same meeting as an urgency measure. The reasons for this urgency are declared and set forth above and the same are incorporated into this section by this reference. Section 6. 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 .1998. MAYOR ATTEST: CITY CLERK STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) CITY OF SANTA CLARITA) I, Sharon Dawson, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. was adopted as an urgency measure at a regular meeting of the City Council on the day of , 1998, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: CITY CLERK MS/mpmftems.wpd