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City Clerk's Office <br />www.santa-ana.org/city-clerks-office <br />Item # 6 <br />ram`' City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />Staff Report <br />November 21, 2023 <br />TOPIC: 2024 City Council Meeting Calendar <br />AGENDA TITLE <br />Review and Approve the Annual Calendar of City Council Meetings for 2024 <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />1. Review calendar of regularly scheduled City Council meetings in 2024. <br />2. Cancel the regularly scheduled City Council meetings of January 2, 2024, August <br />6, 2024, and November 5, 2024. <br />3. Direct staff to post Notice(s) of Cancellation and waive notice to the City Council <br />of said meetings as required by the Government Code. <br />GOVERNMENT CODE 484308 APPLIES: No <br />DISCUSSION <br />Pursuant to Charter Section 409, the City Council has adopted a resolution setting the <br />time, place, and manner of holding its meetings. Resolution No. 2023-047, Section 2(a), <br />states "Regular meetings of the City Council shall be on the first and third Tuesdays of <br />each month beginning on January 1, 2014." Past practice by the City Council has been <br />to cancel the first meeting of the year, a meeting during the summer months, and a <br />meeting that falls on Election Day. Staff recommends that the same past practices be <br />adopted for 2024: <br />1. Cancel the first meeting of the year scheduled for January 2, 2024. <br />2. Cancel the meeting scheduled for August 6, 2024 for the summer months. <br />3. Cancel the meeting scheduled for November 5, 2024 (Election Day). <br />The proposed 2024 calendar (Exhibit 1) includes the three above recommendations and <br />sets a Special Meeting for December 10, 2024 for the certification of election results <br />and swearing -in ceremony pursuant to Charter Section 400. <br />If the City Council cancels any regularly scheduled meeting, consideration of agenda <br />City Council 6-1 11/21/2023 <br />