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AGENDA REPORT
City Manager Approval:
Item to be presented by:
CONSENT CALENDAR
DATE: June 23, 1998
SUBJECT: TERM LIMITS: BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
DEPARTMENT: City Council
RECOMMENDED ACTION
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City Council adopt Ordinance 98-1R entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING
CHAPTER 2.06 OF THE SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO
TERM LIMITS OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
BACKGROUND
At the meeting of June 9, 1998, Council introduced Ordinance 98-12 to increase the
number of consecutive terms a person may serve on any board or commission,
requiring a lapse of at least a two year period before reappointment, and reserving
Council's power to reaffirm Commission appointments and reappointments every
four years.
The ordinance is submitted at this time for Council adoption.
ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS
No alternative actions have been identified by staff.
FISCAL IMPACT
None by this action.
ATTACHMENTS
Ordinance 98-12
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ORDINANCE NO. 98-18
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 2.06 OF THE SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL
CODE PERTAINING TO TERM LIMITS OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 2.06.010, subsection A shall be amended 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. 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 three full consecutive terms upon any
single board or commission, and any person who has served substantially three full consecutive
terms shall not be reappointed to the same board or commission until at least a two year period has
elapsed. The Council reserves the power to reaffirm Commission appointments and reappointments
every four years.
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:
CITY CLERK
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF SANTA CLARII'A )
I, Sharon L. 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
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