HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 03(B) (2013)ORDINANCE NO. 03(B) (2013)
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
DIAMOND BAR IDENTIFYING THE TEMPORARY RE -LOCATION OF
REGULAR MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
DIAMOND BAR TO DIAMOND BAR CITY HALL LOCATED AT 21810
COPLEY DRIVE AND AMENDING ORDINANCE NOS. 03 AND 03A
(2013)
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DIAMOND BAR, CALIFORNIA,
HEREBY FINDS AND DETERMINES AS FOLLOWS:
1. Government Code section 54954 of the Brown Act requires the City
Council to establish the time and place for holding regular meetings by ordinance,
resolution, bylaws, or some other rule.
2. The City has established the time and place for holding regular City
Council meetings by ordinance.
3. It has come to the City's attention that the place established for the holding
of regular meetings will be unavailable due to remodeling.
4. Pursuant to Government Code section 36934 an ordinance can become
effective immediately upon introduction, provided that the City Council makes findings to
support the urgency in accordance with Government Code section 36937 and passes
the Ordinance by a four-fifths vote.
Now, therefore, the City Council of the City of Diamond Bar does ordain as follow
Section 1. Pursuant to Ordinance No. 4A (1989), Section 2.08.010 of the
Diamond Bar Municipal Code, regularly scheduled meetings of the City Council of the
City of Diamond Bar are held at 21865 Copley Drive, commonly known as the SCAQMD
Auditorium.
Section 2. Due to the unavailability of the SCAQMD Auditorium due to
remodeling, on June 3, 2013 the City Council adopted Urgency Ordinance No. 03
(2013) and on August 20, 2013, Ordinance No. 03(B) relocating its City Council
meetings for July 2, 2013, through November 5, 2013, to the Windmill Community
Room, Diamond Bar City Hall, located at 21810 Copley Drive.
Section 3. City staff was recently notified that the SCAQMD Auditorium
will continue to be unavailable for the City Council meeting scheduled for November 19,
2013, and therefore, there is a need to continue to hold City Council meetings in the
Windmill Community Room.
Section 4. if this Ordinance is not adopted as an urgency ordinance,
pursuant to Government Code section 36934 the Ordinance would not become effective
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until December 19, 2013, as such the City Council would not be able to comply with the
Brown Act requirement that the time and place for holding regular meetings be
established by ordinance. As such, this Ordinance needs to be adopted as an urgency
ordinance in order for the City Council to meet at its regularly scheduled meeting and
conduct the official. business of the City in compliance with state law.
Section 5. At the conclusion of the City Council meeting of November
19, 2013, this Ordinance shall, by its own terms terminate and no longer be of any force
and effect and the location of the City Council meetings will be governed by Section
2.08.010 of the Diamond Bar Municipal Code.
. Section 6. Therefore, the City Council amends Ordinance Nos. 03 and
o3(A) (2013) adding the date of November 19, 2013, to the dates that City Council
meetings with be held in the Windmill Community Room.
Section 7. The Mayor shall sign this ordinance and the City Clerk shall
cause the same to be posted within fifteen (15) days after its passage in at least (3)
public locations in the City of Diamond Bar pursuant to Resolution No. 89-6(A).
Section 8. Since this Ordinance is effective only on an interim basis, it
shall not be codified in the Diamond Bar Municipal Code.
Passed, Approved and Adopted this 5th day of Novem ),2 013.
Jack Tanaka, Mayor
I, Tommye Cribbins, 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 5th day of November, 2013 and was finally
passed at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Diamond Bar held on
5th day of November, 2013, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Chang, Herrera, Tye, MPT/Everett,
. M/Tanaka
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSTAINED: COUNCIL. MEMBERS: None
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To'm'myo A. Cribbins, City Clerk
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