HomeMy WebLinkAbout74-31 Changing Council Meeting Day/TimeORDINANCE NO. 74-31
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA
MESA, AMENDING SECTION 2-38 OF CHAPTER III OF THE
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA CHANGING THE
REGULAR DATE OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS FROM THE
FIRST AND THIRD MONDAYS OF EACH MONTH TO THE FIRST
AND THIRD TUESDAYS OF EACH MONTH, AND SETTING FORTH
AUTHORITY AND REASONS THEREFOR.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa finds and declares
that Section 36805 of the Government Code requires that regular meeting dates
of the City Council be established by ordinance. The City Council of the City
of Costa Mesa further finds and declares that the convenience of the Council
in serving the public can best be met by establishing the Council meeting date
as the first and third Tuesday of each month. The City Council of the City of
Costa Mesa finds and declares that the health, safety, and welfare of the
community to be governed by the City Council will best be served by the afore-
mentioned change of meeting time.
Accordingly, Section 2-38 of Chapter III of the Costa Mesa Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 2. "Section 2-38 Time, Place for Regular Meetings
The City Council shall hold regular meetings on the first and third
Tuesdays of each month at the hour of 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the
City Hall, 77 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa, or such other place as designated by the
City Council. If by reason of fire, flood, or other emergency, it shall be
unsafe to meet in the City Hall, the meetings may be held for the duration of
the emergency at such other places as is designated by the Mayor, or, if he
should fail to act, by three (3) members of the City Council. When the day
of any regular meeting falls on a holiday, Christmas Eve, or New Year's Eve,
such meeting shall be held at the same hour and place on the next succeeding
day not a holiday, or such other time as designated by the City Council."
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force thirty
(30) days from and after its passage, and before the expiration of fifteen
(15) days after its passage, shall be published once in the Orange Coast Daily
Pilot, a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in the City
of Costa Mesa, together with the names of the members of the City Council
voting for and against the same.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 20th day of May, 1974.
Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of Co a Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City
Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and
foregoing Ordinance No. 74-31 was introduced and considered section by
section at a regular meeting of said City Council, held on the 6th day
of May, 1974, and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole at a regular
meeting of said City Council, held on the 20th day of May, 1974, by the
following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Wilson, Hammett, Pinkley, Raciti, Hertzog
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa this 21st day of May, 1974.
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