Gardena Municipal Code Ch. 2.66 Gardena Economic Business Advisory Commission

Pursuant to the authority vested in the council, there is created the Gardena economic business advisory commission (GEBAC).

(Ord. 1831 § 1, 2021)

The GEBAC shall consist of eleven members. The mayor and each council member shall have the right to nominate two members and the city manager shall nominate one member, and such nominations shall be honored by ratification and confirmation by a majority vote of the membership of the council.

(Ord. 1831 § 1, 2021)

A. The term of office for each member of the GEBAC shall be coterminous with the term of the council member who nominated the commissioner.

B. Each commissioner shall serve at the pleasure of the council, and such appointments may be terminated by a majority vote of the membership of the council.

C. Each commissioner shall serve until a successor is appointed.

D. Commissioners may be reappointed.

(Ord. 1831 § 1, 2021)

If a vacancy shall occur, the vacancy shall be filled by the council member who nominated the person creating a vacancy and shall be for the remainder of the unexpired term.

(Ord. 1831 § 1, 2021)

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any GEBAC commissioner who absents himself or herself from any three consecutive regular meetings of the GEBAC or who is absent from a total of four regular meetings of the commission in any twelve-month period shall thereby automatically forfeit his or her position as a member of the commission and the name of such person shall be automatically removed from the membership of the commission.

The secretary of the commission shall thereupon promptly notify the council of such fact, whereupon the vacancy so created shall be filled as set forth in Section 2.66.040.

(Ord. 1831 § 1, 2021)

A. The GEBAC shall develop its own bylaws which shall set forth the organization of the commission.

B. The GEBAC shall meet once every other month at a time and place in the city to be determined by the commission. No meeting shall be scheduled on a legal holiday.

(Ord. 1831 § 1, 2021)

The functions of the GEBAC shall be to focus on economic development efforts.

(Ord. 1831 § 1, 2021)

To aid and assist the GEBAC in its deliberations, a member of the city manager's office shall serve as an ex officio member of the commission and shall have no voting power.

(Ord. 1831 § 1, 2021)

The members of the Gardena economic business advisory commission shall be compensated in an amount established by resolution of the council.

(Ord. 1831 § 1, 2021; Ord. 1859 § 1, 2023)