HomeMy WebLinkAbout01/10/1989 (5) VICE MAYOR REFERRAL
(PROPOSED ORDINANCES ONLY)
DATE OF REFERRAL: January 10, 1989
REFERRED TO: LITIGATION COMMITTEE (ART SAALFIELD)
ITEM:
(Proposed) An Ordinance of the Council of the City of Bakersfield amending
Subsection D. of Section 2.04.110 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code
relating to Public Hearings.
BACKUP MATERIAL ATTACHED: Yes
STATUS:
/ Committee Report sent to Council
f Ordinance Adopted
/(date)
Proposed Ordinance Cancelled
(date)
Other
REFER.3
MEMORANDUM
January 4, 1989- JA['I 06 1999
OFF C£
TO: . Vice-Mayor Pat Smith
FROM: Arthur J. Saalfield, City Attorney
SUBJECT: Proposed Ordinances
On 12/14/88 the Council approved City Managers' Report No. 3(b)-88,
providing that each proposed ordinance, other than an ordinance
re-zoning property or an emergency ordinance, be referred by the
Vice-Mayor to a committee to be chosen by the Vice-Mayor prior to
Council action.
Please refer the following proposed ordinances to whichever com-
mittee you deem appropriate:
1. Public Hearings
2. Parcel and Tract Maps--this ordinance was sent ~.~
to you on 1/3/89 but was missing the first page.
Also, corrections were made to the Admin. Report.
Thank you for your help.
AJS/meg
4 M.VMAYOR3
cc: J. Dale Hawley M. Strenn
C. Williams
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
Meeting Date:
Agenda Section:
DRAFT ~w Business__
Agenda Item:
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers Approved
FROM: City Attorney's Office Department Head
DATE: January 5, 1989 City Manager
SUBJECT: An Ordinance of the Council of the City of Bakersfield
amending Subsection D. of Section 2.04.110 of the
Bakersfield Municipal Code relating to Public Hearings.
RECOMMENDATION:
First reading.
BACKGROUND:
This proposed ordinance would revise Council hearing
procedures to: 1) reduce initial presentations by.
proponents and opponents to 20, rather than 30, minutes,
and summation by each side to 5, rather than 10 minutes;
2) specify that, except on appeals, opponents make their
presentations first; and 3) provide that a hearing not
commenced prior to Midnight shall be opened and continued
to the next regular meeting of the Council and considered
before other hearings at such meeting.
AJS/meg
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DRAFT
ORDINANCE NO'. NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING SECTION 2.04.110 D. OF
THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO
PUBLIC HEARINGS.
BE IT O~DAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield
as follows:
SECTION 1.
Subsection D. of Section 2.04.110 of the Bakersfield
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:.
2.04.110 Other public statements.
D. Hearings. Scheduled hearings on .zoning matters,
annexations, public improvement districts, appeals, and other
hearings are to be conducted in the following manner:
1. Presentation by opponents, limited to twenty minutes
unless permission is granted for additional time;
2. Presentation by proponents, with the time limits
specified in subdivision 1 of this subsection;
3. Where a hearing is the result of an appeal, the order
of presentation shall be reversed and the appellant
shall proceed first; the time limits specified in
subdivision 1 of this subsection shall apply;
4. Summation by both sides limited to five minutes each;
5. Council closes public discussion, at which time no
member of the public shall address the council unless
specifically asked to by a member through the presid-
ing officer;
6. Council discussion, council decision or submission for
deliberation;
7. Whenever a scheduled hearing does not commence prior
to midnight, the Council shall open such hearing and
continue the matter to the next regular meeting of the
council. Each hearing so continued shall be placed on
the agenda for such next regular meeting above any
other hearing scheduled for such meeting.
SECTION 2.j
This ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the
City charter provisions and shall become effective thirty (30)
days from and after the date of its passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on __, by the
following vote:
CITY CLERK and Ex Officio Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED
MAYOR of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED as to form:
CITY ATTORNEY of the City of Bakersfield
AJS/meg
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HEARING.1
1/4/89
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