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Home My WebLink AboutCC Ord 819 1970-10-19 - '" "4 .~ ... I' .. .. " .~ , ~ ~ , t . . ... . '., ORDINA NCE NO. 819 AGENDA ITEM VIII B AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING CHAPTER 7 B COM- PRISING SECTIONS 7 B-1 THRU 7 B-6 OF THE CITY CODE ESTABLISHING AN APPOINTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY CONTROL BOARD AND PRESCRIBING ITS DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH DOES HEREBY ORDAIN: Section 1: Chapter 7 B comprising Section 7 B-1 thru Section 7 B-6, both mcluslve, of the Seal Beach City Code is hereby adopted as follows: I I CHA PTER 7 B ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY CONTROL BOARD Section 7 B-1. Environmental Quality Control Board Created In order to better meet and cope with the grave environmental and pollution problems facing the City of Seal Beach and its inhabitants, the City Council, pursuant to the provisions of A rticle VIII of the City Charter, does hereby create an appointive board to deal with the problems of controlling the quality of the environment to be known as the City Environmental Quality Control Board. Section 7 B-2. Powers and Duties Generally It shall be the duty of the members of the City Environmental Quality Control Board to: (a) Study the environment of the City of Seal Beach and investi- gate all actual and any potential threats to be continued main- tenance of a high quality, clean environment for the City and its inhabitants, (b) Report to the City Council, to other city boards, commissions and departments, and to other public and private agencies and groups its recommendations for affirmative steps that may be taken to maintain and improve the quality of the environment of the City of Seal Beach and of its inhabitants, and (c) Report to the City Council, to other city boards, commissions and departments, and to other public and private agencies and groups its recommendations for legislation and for other action that could or might curtail or limit those activities which appear to be an actual present threat, or which may become a potential threat in the future, to the maintenance of a high quality, clean environment for the City of Seal Beach and for its inhabitants. and (d) To perform such other duties as mp.y, from ~ime to time, be properly assigned or delegated to it by the City Council. Section 7 B-3. Composition and Appointment of Members The environmental quality control board shall consist of five members, appointed by motion of the City Council adopted by at least three I I I , 4' . Ordinance Numb~r 't.." .; '. '. affirmative votes, from the qualified electors of the City, none of whom shall hold any paid office or employment in the city government. Members of the environmental quality control board shall serve a term of four years and until their successors are appointed and qualified, If a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by expiration of term, it shall be filled by appointment for the un- expired portion of the term, The term of at least one member of the environmental quality control board shall expire on each year on July first or such other date as may be established by ordinance in accordance with provisions of the City Charter, Section 7 B-4. Terms of Office; Filling Vacancies The first board to be appointed shall, at its first meeting, so classify its members by lot that one shall serve for one year, one for two years, one for three years, and two for four years, Their successors shall be appointed for terms of four years, If a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by expiration of term, it shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired portion of the term, Section 7 B-5. Presiding Officer; Meetings; Quorum; Requlred Vote; Rules of Procedure; Records The environmental quality control board shall, as soon as practi- cable following the first day of July of each year, elect one of its members to serve as presiding officer at the pleasure of its mem- bers, The board shall likewise elect one of its members to serve as presiding officer pro tempore (vice chairman) at the pleasure of the board. The board shall hold regular monthly meetings on the first and third Thursdays of each month in the City Council Chambers which shall be open to the public, and may adjourn or re-adjourn any regular meeting to a date and hour certain which shall be specified in the order of adjournment; when so adjourned such adjourned meeting shall be a regular meeting for all purposes, If at any time any regular meetings fall on a holiday such regular meeting shall be held on the next business day. A majority of the members of the environmental quality control board shall constitute a quorum 10 do business, but a less number may ad- journ from time to time, in the absence of all the members of the environmental quality control board from any regular meeting; the secretary may declare the same adjourned to a stated date and hour. Special meetings may be called at any time by the presiding officer of the board, or by three members of the environmental quality con- trol board; by written notice delivered personally, or by mail, or by the secretary to each member of the board at least three hours before the time specified for the proposed meeting, provided that a special meeting may be also validly held without the giving of such notice if all members shall give their consent in writing, and such consent is on file in the office of the board's secretary. A 11 resolutions of the board shall be signed by the presiding officer and attested to by the secretary, The board shall adopt rules for the transaction of business consis- tent with the City Charter and subject to approval of the City r " .... 4 . ~ ordinan~ N~er . . . ... ..' . '. . , . . Council. The secretary shall keep a record of the board's rules of business, resolutions, transactions, findings, and determina- tions, which record shall be a public record. I Section 7 B-6. Removal of Members; Vacation of Office Member; CompensatlOn , -~ A ny member of the environmental quality control board shall be subject to removal by motion of the City Council adopted by at least three affirmative votes. The office of any member of the environmental quality control board shall be vacated if such member absents himself from three regular meetings of the board, unless by permission of the board, or if he is convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude or ceases to be a elector of the city, The members of the environmental quality control board shall serve without compensation, but shall receive as expenses the sum of ten dollars per meeting, not to exceed thirty dollars per month, Section 2: The City Clerk of the City of Seal Beach is hereby directed to cause thIS ordinance to be posted as required by law, PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED t i ,19~. I n,T: /./ c[f'fd,6;-W). STATE OF CALIFORNIA) ) ss, County of Orange ) . I, Jerdys Weir, City Clerk of the City of Seal Beach, hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was adopted, passed, and approved by the City co'ItJ;~e City of Seal Beach at a meeting thereof held on the4 day of 4/,1970., by the following vo e, AYES: NOES: ABSTAIN: Councilme - Councilmen Councilmen ~ (/A - C ~./, ~1i~~frl, ~rk I' RDYS '.V;:'; r:-r-.,' C!. ::r.;\ 0"": TI~'::: Ci"':"\,' Cr. S~AL . "" 11(') I ~;-"'-",\f ...':'..'.....Ir( T' 'I'T -, ..~ .-,...-- ...""": I~ ..., u. ..", r, I r . , .. tI.~'" I lA~'" r:' ft~ t:::: r-..!'~Ir.r' ro,r :~...." ",- r=.." a ~ ........ IL. _". - "-,... I h.. ul_ AND V!llS rJ~-:.;c F;..I.;~Ij;;::T 70 c.:~:': ~!.r~~:c:: ;7; ..,~,.e fAb~ . ., v :. - I'''': o"~ '/ -::1. u~ NO,.. 1-"'~O" f.,~ ,-a.--_.._-~~ C,. !t.. - .....;/ j~;'-(?""u"''''91.~Lkt:. . :;:t... ell'( CLERK