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DATE: April 23, 2007
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
TIiRU: Greg Beaubien, Interim City Manager
FROM: Linda Devine, City Clerk
SUBffiCT: RE-ORGANIZA TION OF CITY COUNCIL. YBABEN
SUMMARY OF REQUEST
Councilman Ybaben requested to have the issue of re-organization of the City Council -
Election of Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore be placed on the agenda for discussion, there
were no objections.
BACKGROUND
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Annually the City Council undergoes a re-organization to elect one of its members as
Mayor and one member as Mayor Pro Tem. (City Charter - section 404)
In the 2006 City election the voters passed the amendment to the City Charter changing
the date of the elections. (B-06: Shall the Seal Beach Charter be amended to change the
date of the General Municipal Election from March of even-numbered years to
November of even-numbered years and to change the date of the runoff election from
May of even-numbered years to January of odd-numbered years? Results: yes 4,442 - no
1,426). By changing the election dates the existing terms for the incumbent City Clerk and
the incumbent Councilmembers for Council Districts Two and Four will be extended eight
months. (The future extensions will comply with state law.)
The Council was scheduled to re-organize May of 2007 if the date of the election continued
to be March of even years. With the election date change the terms of office was extended
about 8 months, the re-organization of the Council would be extended until December 2007.
Council has the discretion to re-organize anytime but should determine that if they choose to
do so before December 2007 that the next date to re-organize should be set for December
2008 and yearly after that.
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Most often when a Municipal Election date is extended Councilmembers remain in their
positions until the month of the new election date therefore, the staff recommendation is
to re-organize at their December 2007 Council meeting extending the current term of
Mayor, Mayor Pro Tern, RDA Chairman, and RDA Vice-chairman. All appointments
would also be extended to December 2007.
Agenda Item A
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FINANCIAL IMPACT
None
RECOMMENDATION
Direct staff to set the date for Council re-organization and place on Council agenda for
action.
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Li tta Devme, City Clerk
NOTED AND APPROVED:
, Interim City Manager
Attachments: None