HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-15-2015 Item 14 - Ordinance 1623 - Second Reading
Meeting Date: 9/15/2015
FROM: Anthony J. Mejia, City Clerk
SUBJECT: ORDINANCE NO. 1623 (SECOND READING) – AMENDMENT TO
MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 2.04 TO MODIFY REGULAR MEETING
TIMES
RECOMMENDATION
Introduce Ordinance No. 1623 (2015 Series) entitled “An Ordinance of the City Council of the
City of San Luis Obispo, California, amending the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code Chapter
2.04 (Council Meeting) to modify Regular Meeting times.”
DISCUSSION
On September 1, 2015, the City Council voted unanimously to introduce Ordinance No. 1623 to
amend Chapter 2.04 of the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code to establish regular meeting time
and dates. The proposed amendments will allow for the holding of a regular business meeting at
six p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays of every month or at such other time or date as may be
designated on the agenda, provided that it is noticed in the same time and same manner as
required by State law for the posting of regular meetings.
Ordinance No. 1623 (2015 Series) is now ready for adoption and will become effective thirty
days after the date of its final passage (Attachment A).
ALTERNATIVES
1. The Council may decide not to adopt this ordinance.
2. The Council could continue final adoption of the proposed amendment and provide
direction to staff for research and revisions, which would require re-introduction of the
ordinance.
Attachments:
a - Ordinance
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O 1623
ORDINANCE NO. 1623 (2015 SERIES)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS
OBISPO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE SAN LUIS OBISPO
MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 2.04 (COUNCIL MEETING) TO
MODIFY REGULAR MEETING TIMES
WHEREAS, San Luis Obispo Charter Section 502 requires that the Council shall
provide by ordinance for the time and place of holding its meetings; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to amend its regular meeting schedule (that was
formerly established by Ordinance No. 1601) to allow for the holding of a regular business
meeting at six p.m. or at such earlier or other time as may be designated on the same agenda
giving notice of the regular business meeting and posted at the same time and in the same
manner as the regular business meeting notice.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of San Luis
Obispo as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 2.04.010 of Chapter 2.04 (COUNCIL MEETINGS) of the San
Luis Obispo Municipal Code is hereby amended and re-enacted in full to read as follows:
2.04.010 Time—Place
The regular business meetings of the council shall be held at City Hall, 990 Palm Street,
in the city, on the first and third Tuesday of each month at the hour of six p.m. or at such
other time or date as may be designated on the agenda giving notice of the business
meeting and posted at the same time and in the same manner as required by State law for
regular meetings. Regular closed session meetings of the council shall be held at City
Hall, 990 Palm Street, in the city, on the first and third Tuesday of each month at the hour
of five p.m. or at such other time or date as may be designated on the same agenda giving
notice of the business meeting. In the event that a regular meeting of the council falls on a
legal holiday, then the regular meeting shall be held at the same place and time on the
next succeeding working day.
SECTION 2. Ordinance No. 1601 (2014 Series) is hereby superseded to the extent
inconsistent herewith.
SECTION 3. A summary of this ordinance, together with the names of Council
members voting for and against, shall be published at least five (5) days prior to its final passage,
in The Tribune, a newspaper published and circulated in this City. This ordinance shall go into
effect at the expiration of thirty (30) days after its final passage.
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Ordinance No. 1623 (2015 Series) Page 2
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INTRODUCED on the ____ day of ____, 2015, AND FINALLY ADOPTED by the
Council of the City of San Luis Obispo on the ____ day of ____, 2015, on the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
____________________________________
Mayor Jan Marx
ATTEST:
____________________________________
Anthony Mejia
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_____________________________________
J. Christine Dietrick
City Attorney
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City
of San Luis Obispo, California, this ______ day of ______________, _________.
______________________________
Anthony J. Mejia
City Clerk
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=RECEIVED
Newspaper of the Central Coast
MBUNE
3825 South Higuera • Post Office Box 112 • San Luis Obispo, California 93406 -0112 • (805) 781 -7800
In The Superior Court of The State of California
In and for the County of San Luis Obispo
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
AD # 1948473
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
OFFICE OF CITY CLERK
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
ss.
County of San Luis Obispo
I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the
County aforesaid; I am over the age of eighteen and not
interested in the above entitled matter; I am now, and at
all times embraced in the publication herein mentioned
was, the principal clerk of the printers and publishers of
THE TRIBUNE, a newspaper of general Circulation,
printed and published daily at the City of San Luis
Obispo in the above named county and state; that notice
at which the annexed clippings is a true copy, was
published in the above -named newspaper and not in any
supplement thereof — on the following dates to wit;
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 that said newspaper was duly and
regularly ascertained and established a newspaper of
general circulation by Decree entered in the Superior
Court of San Luis Obispo County, State of California, on
June 9, 1952, Case 419139 under the Government Code
of the State of California.
I certify (or declare) under the penalty of perjury that the
foregoing is true and correct.
(Signature f Principal Clerk)
DATED: SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
AD COST: $158.40
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ORDINANCE NO. 1623,(2015 Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO.
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE SAN LUIS
OBISPO MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER
2.04 (COUNCIL MEETING) TO MODIFY
REGULAR MEETING TIMES
NOTICE IS.HEREBY GIVEN that the City
Council of the City of San Luis Obispo, Cali-
fornia, at its Regular Meeting of September
1, 2015, introduced the above titled ordl-
nance upon a motion by Vice Mayor
Ashbaugh, second by Council Member
Rivoire, and on the following roll call vole:
AYES: Council Member Carpenler, Christi-
anson, Rlvoire, Vice Mayor Ashbaugh, and
Mayor Marx
NOES:.None
Ordinance No. 1623 (2015 Series) - This Is
a Clty Ordinancp to amend Chapter 2.04
(Regular Meetings) to establish regular
meeting time and dates. The proposed
amendments will allow for the holding of a
regular business meeting at six p.m. on the
first and third Tuesdays of every month or
at such other time or date as may be desig-
nated on the agenda, provided that it Is no-
ticed In the same time and same manner
as required by State law for the posting of
regular meetings.
A full and complete copy of the aforemen-
tloned Ordinance is available for inspecllon
and copy in the City Clerk's Office, located
at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, Call -
fornla, or you may call (605) 761.7100 for
more information.
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN
that the City Council of the City of San Luis
Obispo will consider adopting the store -
mentioned Ordinance at its Regular Meet-
Ing of September 15, 2015 at 6:00 p.m.,'
which will be held in the Council Chamber,
located at 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obi-
spo, California.
Anthony J. Melia
City Clerk
eptember 9, 2015 1948473
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