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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 28A (1989)ORDINANCE NO. 28A(1989) AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DIAMOND BAR AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 28 (1989) CONCERNING THE TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION. The City Council of the City of Diamond Bar does ordain as follows: Section 1. Ordinance No. 28(1989) of the City of Diamond Bar hereby is amended to read, in words and figures, as follows: Created. Section I. Traffic and Transportation Commission There is hereby created a Traffic and Transportation Commission to serve in an advisory capacity to the City Council. Section 1. Composition. The Traffic and Transportation Commission shall be composed of five members, each of whom shall be a resident of the City of Diamond Bar, and appointed in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 4 hereof. Section I. imposes. The purposes of the Commission shall be: (a) To act in an advisory capacity to the City Council in the review and development of systems, facilities, plans, policies and programs concerning rail, bus and other forms of private and public transportation within the City and effecting the City. 1 (b) To assist City agencies in providing input into the planning and implementation process.of transportation systems within the City or effecting the City. (c) To assist in studies and reviews of public transportation as the same may effect the City and in preparing recommendations for project implementation in connection therewith and, further, to review and advise on proposals, reports and studies of various public and private agencies as the same may effect the transportation needs of the City. (d) To recommend to the City Council and to the City Traffic Engineer and other City officials ways and means for improving traffic conditions and the administration and enforcement of traffic regulations. (e) To hear complaints and receive comments from citizens pertaining to traffic issues throughout the community and to make recommendations thereon to the City Council. (f) To fulfill such additional assignments made with respect to public and private transportation issues and traffic and circulation issues as assigned by the City Council from time to time. section t. organisation =4 terms gI offices tilling Of vacancies Ig offices officerss meetings. (a) Each member of the Traffic and Transportation Commission shall be appointed by one member of the City Council, provided that should a member of the City Council fail to make an appointment within thirty days of the vacancy in question being 2 created a majority of the City Council shall appoint to fill the vacancy. (b) If a vacancy occurs other than by expiration of a term, it shall be filled within thirty days by appointment for the unexpired portion of the term by the Council Member who appointed or had the opportunity to appoint the commissioner whose position has been vacated or the Council Member serving the unexpired portion of the term of that person. If that Council Member fails to appoint within that thirty -day period, a majority of the City Council shall appoint to fill the vacancy. If the vacancy is effected by the removal process specified in this Section, the person so removed may not be appointed to fill the vacancy. (c) Notwithstanding any other terms of provision or this Ordinance, each member of the Traffic and Transportation Commission shall be deemed to have resigned from his or her position on the Commission ninety (90) calendar days after the succession of any person, whether by election, reelection or appointment, to the office of the Council Member who appointed, or had the opportunity to appoint, such Commissioner and that Commission position shall thereupon be deemed vacant and available for appointment for the otherwise unexpired term, if any. (d) If a member of the Traffic and Transportation Commission is absent from three (3) consecutive regular meetings or from more than fifty percent (50%) of the regular meetings 3 thereof in any one (1) year period, the office of said Commissioner shall thereupon be deemed vacant and the secretary to the Commission shall immediately inform the City Council thereof. (e) Any member of the Traffic and Transportation Commission may be removed without cause during his or her term of office by a four-fifths vote of the City Council, provided that no such member may be removed during the initial three months of any term of office for which he or she is appointed except by unanimous vote of the Council. (f) The terms of office of the Traffic and Transportation Commission shall be two-year terms commencing on July 1st of even numbered years and expiring on June 30th of even numbered years; provided, however, that the terms of office of persons initially appointed to the Traffic and Transportation Commission shall expire June 30, 1992. (g) The Traffic and Transportation Commission shall, at is first regular meeting in July of each calendar year, elect a chairman from among its appointed members for a term of one year, and may create and fill such other offices as it may determine and shall hold regular meetings at least once a month and other meetings at such additional times are are deemed necessary. (h) The City Engineer, or his or her designee, shall be the Secretary to the Commission. 4 Section 6. compensation; travel expenses. (a) Each member of the Traffic and Transportation Commission may be paid a fixed sum for each meeting such commissioner attends. The sum to be paid to each member for each such meeting attended by such member shall be established by resolution of the City Council. (b) The City Council may, from time to time, provide such sums as the City Council deems reasonable, in its sole discretion, for travel expenses, meals, lodging and related expenses necessarily incurred by Traffic and Transportation Commission members incidental to the performance of their official duties, including attendance at seminars, conferences or training courses approved by the City Council. Said expenses may be advanced to members or otherwise paid to them in accordance with policies established by the City Council. section 6. The City Clerk shall certify the adoption of the ordinance and shall cause the same to be posted in three (3) public places within the City of Diamond Bar pursuant to the provisions of Resolution 89-6. PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 16th day of QctobP , 1990. 5 rv� Mayor I, LYNDA BURGESS, City Clerk of the City of Diamond Bar, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Diamond Bar held on the 2nd day of October , 1990, and was finally passed at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Diamond Bar held on the 16th day of October , 1990, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Horcher, Papen, Kim, Mayor Pro Tem Forbing and Mayor Werner NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ATTES . C' Cle�kvof tr City of b . mond-Bar M 1011 MT28AM5.15