Cerritos Municipal Code Ch. 2.14 City Celebrations Committee

A city celebrations committee, which may be known and referred to as the “city celebrations committee” of the city of Cerritos, California, is hereby created and established.

(Ord. 1058 § 2, 2026)

The city celebrations committee shall consist of ten members who are residents of and remain residents of the city of Cerritos during their service on the committee. Each councilmember shall appoint two committee members, subject to approval by the city council. In addition to the ten appointed members of the committee, the recreation services superintendent shall be a nonvoting ex officio member. The recreation services superintendent or their designee shall act as secretary.

(Ord. 1058 § 2, 2026)

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, any member of the committee who is absent from any two consecutive meetings of the committee, unless excused from such attendance by majority committee action and reflected in its minutes, or who is absent from a total of three meetings of the committee in a six-month period, unless excused from such attendance by majority committee action and reflected in its minutes, shall thereby automatically forfeit their position or office as a member of the committee, and the name of such person shall be automatically removed from the membership of the committee immediately after the adjournment of any such second consecutive meeting or of any such third meeting in any such six-month period, as the case may be, at which such member has not appeared.

The chairperson or the secretary of the committee shall thereupon promptly notify the city council, and any such person so ceasing to be a member of the committee, of such fact, where upon the vacancy so created shall be filled by appointment pursuant to Section 2.15.010(c).

(Ord. 1058 § 2, 2026)

The purpose of this committee is to act in an advisory capacity to the city council and city staff on matters pertaining to community events. Duties of the committee shall be as follows:

(1) Provide guidance on activities, logistics, and marketing for city-sponsored community events, such as the Festival of Friendship, Halloween Festival, Let Freedom Ring Celebration, Santa’s Sleigh Day at the CCPA, Spring Fling and Fireworks Spectacular, UbeFest, and Water Lantern Festival.

(2) Promote and stimulate public interest in city events.

(3) Encourage inclusive practices to ensure events are accessible and welcoming to all residents of the city.

(4) Act as ambassadors on behalf of the city at community events to foster positive relationships and solicit feedback from the public.

(Ord. 1058 § 2, 2026)

The committee shall cause proper records to be kept of all its official acts and proceedings.

(Ord. 1058 § 2, 2026)

The committee shall have no power or authority to bind or obligate the city or any officers or department thereof for any money, debt, undertaking or obligation of any kind in excess of the appropriation which the city council may have made for the purpose of the committee in any fiscal year.

(Ord. 1058 § 2, 2026)

The committee shall select a chairperson and a vice chairperson from among its members, for terms of one year. The committee shall select its officers once every twelve months. Said selection shall be made at the first meeting of the committee and thereafter at its first meeting following the annual mayoral transition.

(Ord. 1058 § 2, 2026)

Meetings of the committee shall take place on the fourth Wednesday of January, March, May, June, and August, and the second Wednesday of December at seven p.m. in the Community Safety Center Conference Room.

(Ord. 1058 § 2, 2026)

Members of the committee shall be paid such compensation as the city council may by resolution from time to time provide.

(Ord. 1058 § 2, 2026)