HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-10 Amending Code Regarding City Council and its OfficersORDINANCE NO. 03-10
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER II AND
CHAPTER III OF TITLE 2 OF THE COSTA MESA MUNICIPAL
CODE REGARDING THE CITY COUNCIL AND ITS OFFICERS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter II of Title 2 of the Costa Mesa Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2-20. City Council Members.
The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa shall consist of five Council Members.
Sec. 2-21. Salaries.
Each Council Member shall be paid a salary of eight hundred twenty-eight dollars
($828.00) per month for serving on the council.
Sec. 2-22. Selection of Council Officers.
The City Council shall choose one of its members as Mayor and one of its
members as Mayor Pro Tempore at its next regular meeting after the meeting at
which the declaration of the municipal election results is made.
Sec. 2-23. Application of the term "councilman."
As used herein, the term "councilman" is synonymous with the term "Council
Member' and applies to all members of the council, regardless of gender, and
the masculine pronoun includes the feminine.
Section 2. Chapter I I I of Title 2 is hereby amended as follows:
Sec. 2-47. Quorum; vote required.
Three (3) members of the council shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business. Motions may be passed by a majority if only three (3) attend, but
ordinances, resolutions granting franchises and payment of money require at
least three (3) affirmative votes. Where there is no quorum, the mayor, mayor pro
tempore, or any member of the council or the city clerk if no member of the
council is present, shall adjourn such meeting and the city clerk shall post written
notice on the door of the council chambers stating the time and date to which the
meeting is adjourned. For the purpose of considering any item subject to vote of
the council, when a member of the council disqualifies himself because of a
conflict of interest, his presence shall not be considered in determining the
presence of a quorum. Consideration of such item shall be deferred until a
quorum of disinterested council members is present to discuss and vote on the
item, if disqualification reduces those in attendance to less than a quorum.
Sec. 249. Presiding officer designated.
The mayor shall be the presiding officer at all meetings of the city council. In the
absence of the mayor, the mayor pro tempore shall preside. In the absence of
both the mayor and mayor pro tempore, the city clerk shall call the council to
order, whereupon a temporary presiding officer shall be elected by the council
present to serve until the arrival of the mayor or mayor pro tempore or unit
adjournment. From time to time the mayor may designate another council
member to be presiding officer for a particular meeting, unless opposed by a
majority of the council.
Sec. 2-50. Presiding officer's powers and duties.
The presiding officer shall assume his place and duties immediately following his
election. He shall preserve order at all meetings, have the power to reasonably
limit the time of any citizen speaking from the floor, state questions coming
before the council, announce its decision on all subjects and decide all questions
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of order; subject, however, to majority vote of the council determining questions
of order. He shall vote on all motions. The mayor shall sign all ordinances and
other documents adopted and approved by the council at meetings at which he is
in attendance. In the event of his absence, the mayor pro tempore shall sign
such documents as have been adopted and approved by the council.
Section 3. Severability.
If any chapter, article, section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase,
or portion of this Ordinance, or the application thereof to any person, is for any reason
held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this
Ordinance or its application to other persons. The City Council hereby declares that it
would have adopted this Ordinance and each chapter, article, section, subsection,
subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any
one or more subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions of the
application thereof to any person, be declared invalid or unconstitutional. No portion of
this Ordinance shall supersede any local, State, or Federal law, regulation, or codes
dealing with life safety factors.
Section 4. Publication.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect 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 NEWPORT BEACH -COSTA MESA PILOT, a
newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa, or, in
the alternative, the City Clerk may cause to be published a summary of this Ordinance
and a certified copy of the text of this Ordinance shall be posted in the office of the City
Clerk five (5) days prior to the date of adoption of this Ordinance, and within fifteen (15)
days after adoption, the City Clerk shall cause to be published the aforementioned
summary and shall post in the office of the City Clerk a certified copy of this Ordinance
together with the names of the members of the City Council voting for and against the
same.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of November, 2003
ATTEST:
Depua City Clerk of the
City of Costa Mesa
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CITY OF COSTA MESA )
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Acting City Attorney
I, JULIE FOLCIK, Deputy 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. 03-10
was introduced and considered section by section at a regular meeting of said City
Council held on the 20" day of October, 2003, and thereafter�assed and adopted as a
whole at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 3 day of November, 2003,
by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Monahan, Steel, Cowan, Mansoor, Scheafer
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of
the City of Costa Mesa this 40 day of October, 2003.
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Dep City Clerk and ex -officio
Clerk of the City Council of the
City of Costa Mesa