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(JWF 1/22/08) <br />ORDINANCE No. NS-XXX <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE <br />GITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING OR REPEALING <br />SECTIONS ?-100THROUGH ?-105 OFTHE SANTA <br />ANA MUNICPAL CODE RELATED TO RULES AND <br />PROCEDURES FOR MEETINGS OF THE CITY <br />COUNCIL. <br />THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAlN AS <br />FOLLOUVS: <br />Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, <br />determines and declares as follows: <br />A. Section 409 of the Santa Ana City Charter calls for the city council <br />to adopt rules and procedures for the scheduling and conducting of <br />meetings of the city council. <br />B. The Ralph M. Brown Act found at Chapter 9, Part 1 of Division 2 of <br />Title 5 of the California Government Code beginning with Section <br />54950 the "Brown Act"? sets forth statewide standards for meetings <br />of local agencies including the Santa Ana City Council. <br />G. The city council desires to update the standards in the Santa Ana <br />Municipal Code for city council meetings, including rules of <br />decorum, in order to conform with the state law and to provide for <br />well-managed, efficient and accessible meetings. <br />D. 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 tracking <br />purposes only in conformance with the charter. <br />Ordinance No. NS-XXX <br />11 A? 1 Page 1 of 4