Eastvale Municipal Code Ch. 2.18 Public Safety Commission

A public safety commission which shall be known as the public safety commission of the city is hereby created and established.

(Ord. No. 2011-03, § 1, 2-23-2011; Ord. No. 2014-03, § 1, 3-12-2014)

(a) Membership. The commission shall consist of five members who shall be registered voters of the city. Members shall not be officers or employees of the city. All members serve at the will and pleasure of the city council. A public safety commissioner may be removed at any time during a term of office by an affirmative vote of three councilmembers.

(b) Terms of office—Vacancy.

(1) Each city councilmember shall propose to the city council in the form of a nomination of one city resident to serve on the public safety commission. Unless there is a four-fifths vote taken against a nomination, each nominee shall be automatically appointed to the public safety commission. Appointments shall be made at a regular city council meeting.

(2) Each public safety commissioner shall serve a term of two years. Each term shall coincide with the city's regular general election date. The first public safety commissioners appointed shall serve until the first public safety commission meeting after the election results of the first general municipal election is certified.

(3) If a vacancy occurs otherwise than by expiration of a term, it shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired portion of the term by the individual councilmember who made the appointment to the seat which is vacant.

(c) Absence from meetings. Any commission member absent from two consecutive regularly scheduled meetings, or absent from three regularly scheduled meetings of the commission during a calendar year, may be removed from office. By an affirmative vote of three councilmembers, the city council may declare a vacancy on the public safety commission and direct the city clerk to post the notice of vacancy and begin the application process to fill the unexpired term.

(Ord. No. 2011-03, § 1, 2-23-2011; Ord. No. 2014-03, § 1, 3-12-2014)

The public safety commission shall elect its chairman from among its appointed members for a term of one-year, and shall likewise elect one of its members to serve as presiding officer pro tempore (vice-chairman) at the pleasure of the commission. The public safety commission shall hold at least one meeting quarterly but not more than three meetings quarterly in the city council chambers which shall be open to the public, and may adjourn or re-adjourn any regular meeting to a date and hour certain which shall be specified in the order of adjournment. When so adjourned, such adjourned meeting shall be a regular meeting for all purposes. If at any time any regular meeting falls on a holiday, such regular meeting shall be held in the next business day. The public safety commission shall adopt rules and regulations for transaction of business and shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations, which records shall be a public record.

(Ord. No. 2011-03, § 1, 2-23-2011; Ord. No. 2014-03, § 1, 3-12-2014)

The public safety commission shall be charged with the responsibility for making recommendations regarding matters affecting:

(1) Neighborhood watch;

(2) Crime prevention;

(3) Emergency preparedness;

(4) Traffic issues;

(5) Other matters that may be directed by order of the city council.

(Ord. No. 2011-03, § 1, 2-23-2011; Ord. No. 2014-03, § 1, 3-12-2014)

The public safety commission shall cause proper records to be kept of all its official acts and proceedings. The commission shall have no power or authority to bind or obligate the city or any officer 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 commission in any fiscal year.

(Ord. No. 2011-03, § 1, 2-23-2011; Ord. No. 2014-03, § 1, 3-12-2014)

The commission is a reviewing and recommending body only and shall have no power to direct members of the city staff or contract entities. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or by law, the commission shall have power to and shall provide for its own organization, shall adopt rules and regulations for the transaction of business before it, and shall designate the time and place for the regular monthly meeting or meetings of the commission.

(Ord. No. 2011-03, § 1, 2-23-2011; Ord. No. 2014-03, § 1, 3-12-2014)

A designated member of the public safety commission shall report to the city council on the work and recommendations of the public safety commission at the next available city council meeting, but not less than quarterly.

(Ord. No. 2014-03, § 1, 3-12-2014)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 2014-03, § 1, adopted March 12, 2014, enacted a new § 2.18.070, reporting to the city council, and renumbered the existing § 2.18.070, stipend, as § 2.18.080.

Members of the public safety commission may receive a stipend for their services as set by resolution of the city council. No additional monies shall be paid for expenses incurred by the members of the commission in the performance of their duties, except that the city council may from time to time authorize in advance, expenditures for attendance at seminars, institutes, or other meetings which the city council finds to be beneficial to the commissioners in the performance of their duties, and in the best interest of the city. Claims for such expenses shall be filed with the finance director, or designee, and shall be subject to audit and approval by the city council.

(Ord. No. 2011-03, § 1, 2-23-2011; Ord. No. 2014-03, § 1, 3-12-2014)

Editor's note— See editor's note at § 2.18.070.