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Qxs 08/10/09) <br />ORDINANCE NO. NS-XXX <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE <br />CITY OF SANTA ANA REPEALING SECTION 2-550 <br />THROUGH SECTION 2-554 TO THE SANTA ANA <br />MUNICPAL CODE RELATED TO EARLY <br />PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION COMMISSION <br />THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS <br />FOLLOWS: <br />Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, <br />determines and declares as follows: <br />A. The City's budget challenges and the potential impacts on the <br />City's ability to preserve high quality core services to the public has <br />lead the City Council to evaluate the current structure of the City's <br />appointive boards and their cost. <br />B. The City agencies which staff the various boards and commissions <br />have reviewed all costs associated with providing support to the <br />appointive boards including materials and supplies, training and <br />travel, staff time, and member compensation. <br />C. The City's commitment to EPIC's core mission of prevention, that <br />is, equipping at-risk youth to lead productive lives and to provide <br />alternatives to gang affiliation, violence and drugs shall continue. <br />The Ad Hoc Committee on Board and Commission Review is <br />recommending the creation of a new smaller Board combining the <br />efforts of the current Human Relations Commission and EPIC <br />which shall be equipped to provide leadership in the area of <br />prevention. <br />D. The following action will preserve valuable community input and <br />participation in city government while contributing to necessary <br />reductions in city expenditures. <br />E. All provisions of the Santa Ana Municipal Code which are repeated <br />herein are repeated solely in order to comply with the provisions of <br />section 418 of the Charter of the City of Santa Ana. Any such <br />restatement of existing provisions of the Code is not intended, nor <br />shall it be interpreted, as constituting a new action or decision of <br />the City Council, but rather such provisions are repeated for <br />tracking purposes only in conformance with the Charter <br />Ordinance No. NS-XXX <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />11 C-5 <br />