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OPTION 1 - EXHIBIT A <br />Sec. 404. - Presiding officer, mayor. <br />The mayor shall be a member of the City Council and shall preside over the <br />meetings of the City Council. The mayor shall have voice and vote in all of the City <br />Council's proceedings and shall be recognized as head of the City government for all <br />ceremonial purposes. The mayor shall have no administrative duties but shall perform <br />such other duties as may be prescribed by this charter, or imposed by the City Council, <br />consistent with his office. <br />The mayor shall be elected by the voters of the City at large at each general <br />municipal election in November of even-numbered years for a two-year term <br />commencing on the same date as the terms of other council members elected in such <br />year. No person may be a candidate for mayor and a candidate for any other office on <br />the City Council in the same election. In the event an incumbent City Council member <br />other than the mayor is elected mayor such other office shall become vacant at the time <br />he or she assumes office as mayor and the City Council shall call a special election to <br />fill the vacancy. <br />To be eligible to be elected to the office of mayor a person must be a qualified <br />voter as provided for in the Elections Code of the State of California If the mayor is <br />convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude the office shall immediately become <br />vacant and be so declared by the city council. <br />is person who has served four (4) consecutive terms of two (2) years each shall <br />be eligible for appointment, nomination for or election to the office of mavor or council <br />member no sooner than for a term beginning eight (8) years after completion of the <br />mayor's fourth consecutive full term. <br />Short or partial terms shall not be considered in determining eligibility for <br />a ointment nomination or election as mayor. For purposes of this charter short or <br />partial terms shall only be those where the mayor was elected or appointed to replace <br />another mayor who left office before the latter official's term expired Any mayor who <br />assumed office at the beginning of a term and left office early or before term expires for <br />any reason whatsoever shall be deemed to have served a full term The provisions of <br />this section related to short or partial terms is deemed to be declaratory of existing law. <br />65A-7