HomeMy WebLinkAbout1434 - ORDINANCES - 2/3/1993 ORDINANCE NO. 1434
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS,
CALIFORNIA, REPEALING SECTION 2 . 06. 010 OF THE
MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING A NEW SECTION
2 . 06. 010.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 2 . 06. 010 of the Municipal Code is repealed to
add a new Section 2 . 06. 010, to read as follows:
2 . 06 . 010 General rules regarding aptointment::, terms ,
vacancies. (a) Unless otherwise provided by law, or by ordinance
adopted after the effective date hereof, all members of boards and
commissions of the city shall be appointed for four-year terms
commencing on July 1 of the year of appointment; provided, that
interim vacancies shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired
term of the member replaced.
(b) Subject to its unfettered legislative discretion, the
Council will attempt to ensure that members appointed to city
boards and commission shall reflect the social, ethnic and cultural
diversity of the community.
(c) Except in cases where the Mayor or the City Council are
not the appointing authority, no person shall be appointed to or
serve substantially more than one full term upon any board or
commission, and shall then become ineligible fox, appointment to any
board or commission for a period of one year from the expiration of
his; or her service upon any board or commission„ provided that any
person appointed to an interim vacancy of twelve months or less,
shall be eligible for appointment to a full t=erm upon the same
board or commission to which the interim appointment was made.
After the expiration of one year during which the person has not
served upon any board or commission, that person, if otherwise
qualified, shall again become eligible for appointment to any board
or commission, including without limitation, the board or
commission upon which he or she formerly served.
(d) Unless otherwise provided by law, or by ordinance or
resolution of the City Council, all members of boards and
commissions of the city appointed by the May or City Council shall
be initially, and during their incumbencies, bona fide residents
and registered voters of the city, and no such member at or during
such time shall be an employee of the city, nor a current applicant
for city employment.
(e) Any member 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 absent:; 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, the chair of the board
or commission shall file a certification with the City Clerk that
such absences have occurred, and his or her office shall thereupon
automatically become vacant and shall be filled as any other
vacancy.
SECTION 2 . EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall be in full force
and effect thirty (30) days after passage.
Ord, No. 1434
Page 2
SECTION 3. PUBLICATION. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and
directed to certify to the passage of this Ordinance, and to cause
the same or a summary thereof or a display advertisement, duly
prepared according to laiev to be nublir�hsd in e7cr ""7.7ncq jyj.t.T1 I=aTA*e
ADOPTED this 3rd day of February 1993 .
AYES: Members Hodges, Lyons, Reller-Spurgin, Scrilendorf & Mayor Maryanov
NOES: None
ABSENTS: None
ATTEST
_Cqi y Clerk 1.1 yor
REVIEWED & APPROVED: �n/ `2�•
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT the foregoing Ordinance 1434 was duly adopted
by the City Council of the City of Palm Springs, California, in a meeting
held on the 3rd day of February, 1993, and that same was duly published
in the DESERT SUN, a newspaper of general circulation on February 9, 1993.
--40DITH SUMICH
City Clerk