HomeMy WebLinkAbout53 - The Conduct of Meetings of the City CouncilORDINANCE NO. %:0
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CI`.CY OF COSTA MESA, R UTING TO THE COYDIUCT
OF MEFITINGS OF Tis CITY CCOUNCI.L.
The City Council of the City of Costa Mosa does heraby ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. PRESMZTING MATTM TO CCUEM.L. Every official, board,
commission, employee► or other body connected with the City government,
and every citizen, individual, corporation, committee or civic group,
having any reports, comr.runications or other matters to be presented
at a Council meeting, shall notify the City Clerk of that fact in
writing before 12:00 noon of the Thursday preceding the next Council
meeting, whereupon the City Clerk shall prepare a list ;OttinL- forth
such matters and the nature thereof under their appropiate headings,
and setting forth.all other matters to tomo before the next meeting;
under their appropiate headings; and ''he (,it -.r Clerk aball on tik^
Friday preceeding such Courcil meeting cause one copy t:.�reof to
be del &vered to each Councilman.. Any matter ;seemed by Vae City Council
to be an emergency shall be excepteC. lrom tile. foregoing provision.e.
SECTION 2, ORDER OF BUSLTESS. Promptly at 7:30 P.M. on the niC; it of
each regular meeint, thr members of the Council, Tho City Clark, City
Attorney and City Manager, or other officers, e.iall -Issemible kt their
regular stations in the council chamber, whereupon the business of the
meeting shrr.11 LE tarsen up in tl_e fo .l owing order:
ORDER OF BUSIW:eSS
1. Pledge of Alleginnee to the rl:�g
2. Invocation
Roll call
4. M notes of previous meeting
j. Oral communications
6. Protests, written communications
7. Reports of sp3cial eonrnittePs
8. Unfinished business
9. New bn iness
i;,. Paying bills
The foreg ,Jn, Order of Biisirier�s i.iuly, at meeting on notion. d-uly
made and carried, be changr.d or suspended for the period of suc?. meeting.
SECTION 3. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS. Under the head of oral communications
any person may after stating his name, address the Council on any mater
over which the City has control, but preference shall be given to those
who have previously notified the City Clerk in advance as set forth in
Section 1.
SECTION 4, PROTESTS. Under the heading of protests, written communications
or petitions$ any person may address the Council in regard to any matters
In which they are interested.
SECTION 5• COPY OF MINUTES. Immediately following each Council meeting the
City Clerk shall send a *yitten copy of the minutes thereof to each member
of the City Council, to the City Manager, and to the department heads
affected thereby. Thereafter the reading of such minutes by the City Clerk
at the following meeting may be dispensed with by a majority vote of the
members present.
SECTION 6. POSTING. The City Clerk shall cause this ordinance to be
posted within 15 days after its passage in three public places in the
City of Costa Mesa,
SECTION 7, EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall take effect upon the
expiration of 30 days from the date of adoption.
_ Ma f the City of Costa sa
ATTR:
City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa.
STAT OF VA`-; .i 4\ill. 1:f.: v
COTji:T': ('a. -GE ss
CITY ,OF COSTA P;ESA
I, A. C. SWARTZ, City Clerk of the City of Costa 1;,esa, do hereby certify that at
a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, held on the qg+:n
day of _
JTTNF
1954, the
foregoing Ordinance, containing _ Z
sections,
wax considered
section by section,
and that the said Ordinance -was then
passed and adopted as a whole by the following vote:
AYES: 5_ COUNCILPT: iE!ARTIAt,L O,I'T ^TITH and
Te..INKI LE
NOES: 0 COLrYCILMEN:_ 1\?0 IT
A3SMTT: 0 C0LrXCILMT:_ Noll, '
I further certify that said Ordinance was thereupon signed by the Magor of the
City of Costa Mesa.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk of the City of A
STATE OF CALIFOPGTIA:
COUBTTY OF ORA1,TGE : ss
CITY OF COSTA MESA :
rsta Mesa
I, A. C. SITARTZ, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa, do hereby certify that on
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the .th�_ day of Jvxle 1954. I posted the foregoing true and
correct copy of the foregoing Ordinance in the following public places in the City:
Justice Court
567 West Eighteenth Street
Costa Mesa, California
Costa Mesa City Hall
111 East 20th Street
Costa Mesa, California
Costa Mesa Fire Hall
111 Rochester Street
Costa Mesa, California
WITISESS my hand and seal this 29th day of June 1954•
City Clerk of the City qfCosta Mesa