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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1556 - ORDINANCES - 4/1/1998 ORDINANCE NO. 1556 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 2.06.010 OF THE PALM SPRINGS MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING APPOINTMENTS TO CITY BOARDS & COMMISSIONS. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 2.06.010 of Chapter 2.06 of the Palm Springs Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follow: 2 06 010 General rules regarding appointments, 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 three-year terns commencing on July 1 of the year of appointnnent; 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 commissions shall reflect the social, ethnic and culttural diversity of the community. c) Persons appointed to a board or commission may be reappointed for up to one additional full term, not to exceed a total of seven years of service on such board or commission; such reappointments sliall not be construed as automatic, and applicants must go through the same process for reappointment as all other applicants who are seeking initial appointment. d) Except in cases where the Mayor or the City Council are not the appointing authority, no person appointed to a board or commission shall become eligible for appointment to such board or commission for a period of one year from the expiration of his or her service upon such board or commission; provided, however, that person, if otherwise qualified, shall become immediately eligible for appointment to any ocher board or commission without the one year hiatus.. After the expiration of one year during which the person has not served upon the same board or commission, that person, if otherwise qualified, shall again become eligible for appointment to the board or commission upon which he or she formerly served, subject to the provisions of subsection (c). e) Unless otherwise provided by law, or by ordinance or resolution of the city council, all members of boards and commissions of the city 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. f) Any member may be removed from office at any time, with or without cause, by a majority vote of the members 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 by a majority vote of the members of the appointing authority remove appointees, with or without cause. 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 duty 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 absent-, have occurred, and his or her office shall thereupon automatically become vacant and shall be filled as any other vacancy. g) All existing members of any board or commission shall be eligible upon the expiration of their existing term for one additional three year term, unless they have also served an additional interim terns, iu which case they shall not be eligible for an additional term if their total continuous service would then be more than seven years, counting the additional three year term to which they would be reappointed. SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days after passage. �i 01556 Page 2 60_1� SECTION 3. PUBLICATION. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to the passage of this Ordinance, and to cause the saine or a summary thereof or a display advertisement, duly prepared according to law, to be published in accordance with law. ADOPTED this 1st day of�ril _, 1998. AYES: Members Barnes, Hodges, Oden, Reller-Spurgin and Mayor Kleindienst NOES: None ABSENT: None ATTEST: CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA City Clerk Mayor REVIEWED & APPROVED ,, L_J I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance 1556 was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Palm Springs, California, in a meeting held on the 1st day of April , 1998, and that same was duly published in the DESERT SUN, a newspaper of general circulation on April 7 , 1998. 0DITH SUMICFI City Clerk