Item 22 - Police Review Commission Draft Ordinance Discussion

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55394.00000\40763936.1 shall be permitted the opportunity to review the top three applicants and recommend a candidate to the City Council. The Oversight Director shall, pursuant to Charter Section 1100, report directly to the City Council. Sec. 2-623. – Budget and Support for Commission and Independent Oversight Director The City Manager shall make a recommendation to Council, as part of the annual City budget to fund the Commission and any additional labor, consulting, equipment, training or materials necessary for the Commission and the Independent Oversight Director to carry out the duties and exercise the powers set forth in this division. Sec. 2-624. - Rules and records. The Commission shall, in consultation with the Independent Oversight Director and the City Manager develop rules for the transaction of business of the Commission, which rules shall, among other things, include the manner of calling and giving notice of special meetings and hearings and the appointment and powers of ad hoc and standing subcommittees. Said subcommittees may be formed to work on various topics within the scope of police activities. The City Council shall adopt the rules for the transaction of business of the Commission. The Commission shall also keep records of its resolutions, rules, transactions, motions, orders, findings, recommendations and determinations. Except for those items made confidential by California Penal Code Sections 832.5 and 832.7, the records of the Commission shall be open to the public. 2-625. Severability. Should any provision of this division, or its application to any person or circumstance, be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unlawful, unenforceable or otherwise void, that determination shall have no effect on any other provision of this division or Chapter or the application of this division or Chapter to any other person or circumstance and, to that end, the provisions hereof are severable. SECTION 3. Section 2-325 of Article IV of Chapter 2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to add a subsection (i) to read as follows: Sec-2-235.-Compensation for members of boards, commissions. (i) Police Oversight Commission. Each Commissioner shall receive $50 per meeting with no more than four (4) compensated meetings per month. SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall attest and certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance, and shall cause same to be posted as required by law and this Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its final adoption. SECTION 5. If any section, subsection, sentence clause or phrase or word of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any