HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-2793 - Repealing Sections 2-603, 2-604, and 2-607 of Article IV of Chapter 2 of Santa Ana Municipal Code Related to Dissolution of Library Board of City of Santa Ana(JXS 08110109)
ORDINANCE NO. NS-2793
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 BOARD 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
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Section 2. Sections 2-603 to 2-604 and Section 2-607 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code are hereby deleted in their entirety.
Section 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this
ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it
would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase
or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,
sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
ADOPTED this 17th day of August, 2009
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Joseph W. Fletcher, City Attorney
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By: J se Sandoval
Man ging Sr. Asst. City Attorney
AYES: Councilmembers: Alvarez, Bustamante Martinez Pulido (4)
NOES: Councilmembers: None (0)
ABSTAIN: Councilmembers: None (0)
ABSENT: Councilmembers: Benavides. Sarmiento. Tinaiero (3)
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CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, MARIA D. HUIZAR, Clerk of the Council, do hereby attest to and certify that the
attached Ordinance No. NS-2793 to be the original ordinance adopted by the
City Council of the City of Santa Ana on August 17, 2009 and that said ordinance
was published in accordance with the Charter of the City of Santa Ana.
Date: ~'~19~~~ ~-~Cv~- ~' f~i2~~
Clerk of the Council ,J
City of Santa Ana
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