6470 ORDINANCE NO. 6470
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM ADDING
SECTION 1.04.392 PROVIDING FOR A BOARD AND COMMISSION MEMBER
ORIENTATION AND AMENDING SECTION 1.04.396 OF CHAPTER 1.04 OF TITLE 1 OF
THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE REMOVAL OF BOARD AND
COMMISSION MEMBERS DUE TO EXCESSIVE ABSENCES FROM MEETINGS
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That new Section 1.04.392 be, and the same hereby, added to Chapter
1.04 to read in full as follows:
1.04.392 BOARD AND COMMISSION ORIENTATION
.010 Staff liaison to City boards and commissions will arrange for new members to
receive appropriate orientation, incorporating Brown Act and ethics training, following the
scheduled annual appointments set forth in Section 1.04.391.030 of the Anaheim Municipal
Code or when a new member assumes their official duties.
SECTION 2: That section 1.04.396 of Chapter 1.04 be amended to read in full as
follows:
1.04.396 REMOVAL OF BOARD AND COMMISSION MEMBERS DUE TO
EXCESSIVE ABSENCES FROM MEETINGS.
.010 If a member of a City board or commission shall be absent with or without cause
from three meetings of the board or commission on which that member serves within any six(6)
month period, the secretary or staff liaison to such board or commission shall immediately file a
written report thereof with the City Clerk, who shall notify the nominating Council Member or
Mayor of such report. At the discretion of the nominating Council Member or Mayor, such
board or commission member may be subject to possible removal by the nominating Council
Member or Mayor, respectively, at a public meeting. If a member of a city board or commission
is absent with or without cause from two (2) additional meetings within the six(6)months
immediately succeeding the first three (3) absences, the secretary or staff liaison to such board or
commission shall immediately file a written report thereof with the City Clerk, who shall
schedule consideration of the possible removal of the member as an agenda item at the next
regular meeting of the City Council, or as soon thereafter as the matter can be considered. Such
board or commission member shall be subject to removal by the affirmative votes of a majority
of the total membership of the City Council.
.020 An absence shall be considered an absence for cause if either(1)the member
informs the chairperson or the City staff liaison of such City board or commission of such
member's intended absence at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled time of the meeting, or(2)
such absence is due to unforeseeable and unavoidable circumstances which circumstances are
orally reported and explained by the member at the next regular meeting of the board or
commission following such absence, or which are reported and explained in writing to the
secretary and staff liaison of the board or commission prior to the next regular meeting of the
board or commission.
.040 For purposes of this section and sections 1.04.391 and 1.04.395,the term"City
board or commission" shall mean and include any board or commission of the City of Anaheim
whose members are appointed by the City Council as specified in Article IX of the City Charter
or as otherwise created by formal action of the City Council, including the members of any board
created by a joint exercise of powers agreement to which the City is a party and pursuant to
which the City Council has the power to appoint at least a majority of the board members.
.050 For purposes of this section, the term"meeting" shall mean and include any
regular, adjourned or special meeting of the City board or commission to which the provisions of
this section are being applied.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause
the same to be printed once within fifteen(15) days after its adoption in the Anaheim Bulletin, a
newspaper of general circulation,published and circulated in the City of Anaheim, and thirty
(30) days from and after its final passage, it shall take effect and be in full force.
SECTION 4. The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares that should any
section,paragraph, sentence or word of this ordinance of the Code,hereby adopted,be declared
for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of the Council that it would have passed all other
portions of this ordinance independent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be
declared invalid.
THE FOREGOING ORDNANCE was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council
of the City of Anaheim held on the 24th day of September,2019, and thereafter passed and adopted
at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 22nd day of October, 2019,by the following
roll call vote:
AYES: Mayor Sidhu and Council Members Kring, Barnes, Brandman, Moreno,
Faessel, and O'Neil
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
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CITY CLERK 0 HE CITY OF ANAHEIM
CLERK'S CERTIFICATE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, THERESA BASS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the
original Ordinance No. 6470 introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Anaheim, held on the 24th day of September, 2019, and that the same was duly passed and
adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 22nd day of October, 2019, by the
following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: Mayor Sidhu and Council Members Kring, Barnes, Brandman, Moreno,
Faessel and O'Neil
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of October, 2019.
CLERK OF TH CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
CLERK'S CERTIFICATE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM
I, THERESA BASS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is
the original Ordinance No. 6470 and was published in the Anaheim Bulletin on the 31st day
of October, 2019, pursuant to Section 512 of the City Charter of the City of Anaheim.
CITY CLER OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
Anaheim Bulletin PROOF OF PUBLICATION
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Anaheim, CA 92806 Legal No. 0011327952
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SUMMARY PUBLICATION
CITY OF ANAHEIM
ORDINANCE NO.6470
5190168 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANA-
EHEIM ADDING SECTION 1.04.392 PROVIDING FOR A BOARD AND
ANAHEIM,CITY OF/CLERKS OFF COMMISSION MEMBER ORIENTATION AND AMENDING
200 S ANAHEIM BLVD STE 217 SECTION 1.04.396 OF CHAPTER 1.040F TITLE 1 OF THE
ANAHEIM, CA 92805-3820 'ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE REMOVAL OF
BOARD AND COMMISSION MEMBERS DUE TO EXCESSIVE
ABSENCES FROM MEETINGS
The primary purpose of this ordinance is to add section 1.04.392 to
Chapter 1.04 of Title 1 of the Anaheim Municipal Code to provide for
FILE NO. CAO-#135153 an orientation session for new City board and commission members
incorporating Brown Act and ethics training. Additionally, the ordi-
nance amends section 1.04.396 of Chapter 1.04 to provide that, if a
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION board or commission member is absent with or without cause from
three meetings within a six-month period, the Council Member or
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Mayor appointing the member would be notified and have an opportu-
nity to remove the member. If the member is thereafter absent with
SS. or without cause from two (2)additional meetings within the six (6)
County of Orange months immediately succeeding the first three(3)absences,the City
Clerk shall schedule consideration of the possible removal of the
member as a Council agenda item.
I,Theresa Bass,City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is a summary of Ordinance No.6470 which ordi-
I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the nonce was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
County aforesaid; I am over the age of eighteen years, and City of Anaheim on 24th day of September,2019 and was duly passed
nota party to or interested in the above-entitled matter. I and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council on 22nd day of octo-
ber,2019 by the fol lowing roll cal I vote of the members thereof:
am the principal clerk of the Anaheim Bulletin, a
newspaper that has been adjudged to be a newspaper of AYES: Mayor Sidhu and Council Members Kring,Barnes,
general circulation by the Superior Court of the County of Brandman,Moreno,Faessel,and O'Neil
Orange, State of California, on December 28, 1951, Case NOES: None
No. A-21021 in and for the City of Anaheim, County of
Orange, State of California; that the notice, of which the ABSENT:None
annexed is a true printed copy, has been published in ABSTAIN:None
each regular and entire issue of said newspaper and not in The above summary is a brief description of the subject matter con-
any supplement thereof on the following dates, to wit: tained in the text of Ordinance No.6470 which has been prepared pur-
suant to Section 512 of the Charter of the City of Anaheim. This sum-
10/31/2019 mar,/does not include or describe every provision of the ordinance
and should not be relied on as a substitute for the full text of the ordi-
nance.
To obtain a copy of the full text of the ordinance, please contact the
Office of the City Clerk, (714) 765-5166, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00
p.m.,Monday through Friday. There is no charge for the copY.
I certify(or declare) under the penalty of perjury under the Published Anaheim Bulletin October 31, 2019 11327952
laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true -�a
and correct:
Executed at Anaheim, Orange County, California, on
Date: October 31, 2019.
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