HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 97-75RESOLUTION NO. 97-75
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF DIAMOND BAR OPPOSING THE PROPOSED PROCEDURES,
BY THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR CONSERVATION AUTHORITY (WCCA),
FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WCCA ADVISORY COMMITTEE
WHEREAS, the Wildlife Corridor Conservation Authority has established an Advisory
Committee; and
WHEREAS, on April 5, 1995, the Wildlife Corridor Conservation Authority unanimously
voted that each Board member had the right to make two (2) appointments to the Advisory
Committee, which; and
WHEREAS, the Wildlife Corridor Conservation Authority has now promulgated
proposed procedures for the reappointment and appointment of Advisory Committee members;
and
WHEREAS, the proposed procedures eliminates the prerogatives of the municipal agency
members of the WCCA Board, who are the only elected officials on the Board, by no longer
allowing the municipal members to make the appointment(s) of two Advisory Committee
members each; and
WHEREAS, the proposed procedures do not allow for the discretion of the appointing
authorities, in determining whether an Advisory Board member is reappointed; rather, the
Advisory Committee member decides his/her continuing on the Committee, by expressing an
interest in doing so, and
WHEREAS, the proposed procedures provide for a fifteen (15) member Committee, all of
whom are appointed by the WCCA Board, none of whom are appointed by directly by each
municipal member; and
WHEREAS, the term of office of an Advisory Board Member should be the same as the
teen of office of the WCCA Board members, and
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Diamond
Bar does hereby oppose the proposed procedures, which change the policies and process for the
establishment of and the appointment and reappointment to the WCCA Advisory Committee; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Diamond Bar does
hereby propose the following procedures: a) the Advisory Committee be comprised of fifteen (15)
members, b) each of four member municipalities have the right to appoint two (2) members each
and the entire Board have the right to appoint seven (7) at -large members; c) the term of office be
two (2) years; d) there shall not be any automatic reappointments to the Committee; and e) a
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municipal agency appointee may be removed for cause by a majority of members of the appointing
municipality or %�Ithout cause by four/fifths vote of the appointing municipality, a WCCA Board
appointee may be removed for cause by a majority of the Board or without cause by a four/fifths
vote of the Board.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Diamond Bar
this 16th day of December, 1997.
Mayor
I, LYNDA BURGESS, City Clerk of the City of Diamond Bar, California do hereby
certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the City
Council of the City of Diamond Bar, California, at its regular meeting held on the 16th day of
December, 1997, by the following Roll Call vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS
Ansari, Huff, O'Connor, MPT/Chang,
M/Herrera
None
None
None
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L da Burgess, City Clerk
City of Diamond Bar
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