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Qxs 07/01 /09) ORDINANCE NO. NS-XXX AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA REPEALING SECTION 2-550 THROUGH SECTION 2-554 TO THE SANTA ANA MUNICPAL CODE RELATED TO EARLY PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION COMMISSION 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 City's commitment to EPIC's core mission of prevention, that is, equipping at-risk youth to lead productive lives and to provide alternatives to gang affiliation, violence and drugs shall continue. The Ad Hoc Committee on Board and Commission Review is recommending the creation of a new smaller Board combining the efforts of the current Human Relations Commission and EPIC which shall be equipped to provide leadership in the area of prevention. D. The following action 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-8