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THE c•'Y OF . Q\ EL CERRITO AGENDA BILL Agenda Item No. 5(8) Date: December 19, 2011 To: El Cerrito City Council From: Scott Hanin, City Manager (requested by Councilmember Benassini) Cheryl Morse, City Clerk Subject: Ordinance Changing Council Meeting Day and Time ACTION REQUESTED Introduce by title, waive any further reading and approve an ordinance amending Sections 2.04.010 ("Meeting - Regular") and 2.04.030 ("Meeting - Place") of the El Cerrito Municipal Code to change the City Council meeting day from the first and third Monday of each month to the first and third Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. Second reading of the ordinance is scheduled for January 17, 2012. BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS At the November 21, 2011 City Council meeting, the City Manager, at the request of Councilmember Benassini, asked the City Council to consider changing the day of the City Council meeting from Monday to Tuesday evening. The City Council considered the change in meeting day and directed staff to return to the City Council with an amendment to the El Cerrito Municipal Code which would also change the meeting time to 7:00 p.m. (Ayes - Councilmembers Benassini, Cheng, Jones and Lyman; Noes - Councilmember Abelson). Please find an ordinance amending the Municipal Code attached. If approved this evening, the ordinance will return to the City Council for second reading on January 17, 2012. Upon adoption, the ordinance will become effective in thirty days. The City Council and Redevelopment Agency meetings would then initiate Tuesday night meetings on February 21 at 7:00p.m., a date that is already rescheduled to Tuesday by default due to the National Presidents Holiday. Staff has made arrangements to publish the pending change in the next Citywide newsletter, on the City's website and in the newspaper upon approval of first reading this evening. FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS There is no direct financial impact. Attachments: 1. Proposed changes to El Cerrito Municipal Code Sections 2.04.010 and 2.04.030. ---PAGE BREAK--- ORDINANCE NO. 2011-XX Agenda Item No. S(B) Attachment 1 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL CERRITO AMENDING SECTIONS 2.04.010 ("MEETING - REGULAR") AND 2.04.030 ("MEETING - PLACE") OF THE EL CERRITO MUNICIPAL CODE TO CHANGE AND FIX THE DAY, TIME AND PLACE OF CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL CERRITO DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: DIVISION I. SECTION 2.04.010 of the El Cerrito Municipal Code is hereby amended with the following additions and deletions to read as follows (additions in underline, deletions in strikethrough): Section 2.04.010 ,Meeting- Regular The council shall hold regular meetings on the first and third }.4ondays Tuesdays of each month at eight 7:00p.m. It may adjourn any regular or special meeting to a date certain, which shall be specified in the order of adjournment, and such an adjourned meeting may likewise be adjourned. Any adjourned regular meeting shall be a regular meeting for all purposes. In the event that any order adjourning a meeting fails to state the hour at which the adjourned meeting is to be held, such adjourned meeting will be held at eight 7:00p.m. Section 2.04.030 Meeting - Place All regular meetings shall be held at the El Cerrito Community Center, 7007 }.4oeser Lane City Hall, 10890 San Pablo A venue. DIVISION II. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. DIVISION III. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall take effect thirty days after passage and be posted in accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California with the names of those City Councilmembers voting for and against it. The foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of El Cerrito, held on XX, 2011. Adopted and ordered published at a meeting of the City Council for the City of El Cerrito held on the day of , 2012 by the following vote: 1 ---PAGE BREAK--- ATTEST: Cheryl Morse, City Clerk APPROVED: Agenda Item No. S(B) Attachment 1 William C. Jones III, Mayor ORDINANCE CERTIFICATION I, Cheryl Morse, City Clerk of the City of El Cerrito, do hereby certify that this Ordinance is true and correct original Ordinance No. 2011-__ ofthe City ofEl Cerrito; that said Ordinance was duly enacted and adopted by the City Council of the City of El Cerrito at a meeting of the City Council held on the day of XX, 2012; and that said Ordinance has been published and/posted in the manner required by law. WITNESS my hand and the Official Seal of the City of El Cerrito, California, this dayof ,2012. Cheryl Morse, City Clerk 2