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(JXS 07/01/09) ORDINANCE NO. NS-XXX AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA REPEALING SECTIONS 2-603, 2-604 and SECTION 2-607 OF ARTICLE IV OF CHAPTER 2 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICPAL CODE, RELATED TO DISSOLUTION OF THE LIBRARY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, determines and declares as follows: A. The City's budget challenges and the potential impacts on the City's ability to preserve high quality core services to the public has lead the City Council to evaluate the current structure of the City's appointive boards and their cost. B. The City agencies which staff the various boards and commissions have reviewed all costs associated with providing support to the appointive boards including materials and supplies, training and travel, staff time, and member compensation. C. The management of the City Library has been assumed by the Executive Director of Parks and Recreation and the Library shall become a division of the Parks & Recreation Agency. Therefore, function of the Library Board will be assumed by the Board of Recreation and Parks which is equipped to provide, without substantial diminution, the services provided by the Library Board. D. The following actions will preserve valuable community input and participation in city government while contributing to necessary reductions in city expenditures. E. All provisions of the Santa Ana Municipal Code which are repeated herein are repeated solely in order to comply with the provisions of section 418 of the Charter of the City of Santa Ana. Any such restatement of existing provisions of the Code is not intended, nor shall it be interpreted, as constituting a new action or decision of the City Council, but rather such provisions are repeated for tracking purposes only in conformance with the Charter 65A-5