Inglewood Municipal Code § 2-107 Parking and Traffic Commission Created

There shall be and there is hereby created a Parking and Traffic Commission, which Commission shall have the duties as prescribed hereinafter.

The Parking and Traffic Commission shall consist of five members, who shall be designated respectively as Commissioners Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

(a) Commissioner No. 1 shall be appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the City Council from nominees residing in Councilmanic District No. 1 and submitted by the Councilman from said District.

(b) Commissioner No. 2 shall be appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the City Council from nominees residing in Councilmanic District No. 2 and submitted by the Councilman from said District.

(c) Commissioner No. 3 shall be appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the City Council from nominees residing in Councilmanic District No. 3 and submitted by the Councilman from said District.

(d) Commissioner No. 4 shall be appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the City Council from nominees residing in Councilmanic District No. 4 and submitted by the Councilman from said District.

(e) Commissioner No. 5 shall be appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the City Council from nominees residing within the city.

(Ord. 2371 4-1-80; Ord. 99-2 1-26-99)

The terms of the present commissioners of the Parking and Traffic Commission are superseded by the provisions of the ordinance codified in this Section.

All current members of the Parking and Traffic Commission and all succeeding appointees shall serve terms which coincide with the terms of the individual councilmember by whom they were nominated; provided, however, that each member shall continue to serve until his/her successor has been appointed and qualified.

(Ord. 89-16 9-19-89; Ord. 99-2 1-26-99)

The Parking and Traffic Commission Chairman shall be selected by the Mayor. The Commission shall select from its members a Vice Chairman who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The City Clerk shall act as ex-officio secretary to the Commission. The compensation of the secretary, as such, shall be determined by the City Council.

The members of the commission shall receive no compensation for their services as such, but shall be entitled to reasonable and necessary expenses incurred and expended in the performance of their respective duties and functions as Commissioners.

(Ord. 2139 6-5-73; Ord. 99-2 1-26-99)

The Commission shall hold regular meetings at least once each calendar month, the time and place of which shall be fixed by resolution of the Commission.

Additional meetings may be called by the Chairman.

(Ord. 99-2 1-26-99)

Any appointed Commissioner who absents himself from any three consecutive regular meetings of said Parking and Traffic Commission, unless excused from such attendance by consent of such Commission, expressed by action of record in its official minutes, or who is absent from a total of five regular meetings of said Commission in any six-month period without such consent of such Commission, so expressed of record in its official minutes, shall thereby automatically forfeit his position or office as a member of the Parking and Traffic Commission, and the name of such person shall be automatically removed from the membership of said Commission immediately after the adjournment of any such third consecutive meeting or any such fifth meeting in any such six-month period, as the case may be, at which such Commissioner has not appeared. The secretary of the Commission shall thereupon promptly notify the removed Commissioner, and the Mayor and City Council of the fact of such removal. The Mayor shall thereupon appoint a new Commissioner to serve for the remainder of the unexpired term. The ex officio members may designate alternates to appear and vote in their place.

(Ord. 99-2 1-26-99)

Any vacancy occurring in the office of a Commissioner, whether by expiration of term or otherwise, shall be filled by appointment as in the first instance. Such appointee shall serve either for the ensuing term or for the remainder of the current unexpired term of such office, as the case may be.

(Ord. 99-2 1-26-99)

The Parking and Traffic Commission shall have the following duties and functions:

(a) The conduct of safety campaigns, the carrying on of educational work in schools and among the public in general, the making of suggestions with reference to the enforcement of traffic rules and regulations, the changes in the traffic regulation orders, resolution and ordinances of the City, the elimination of traffic hazards, and generally the continuous application to the study of automotive and vehicular traffic safety within the City of Inglewood.

(b) The Commission shall initiate, investigate and make reports and recommendations to the Public Works Director and the City Council concerning all matters affecting the safe and expeditious movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, on- and off-street parking and safety within the City and other matters related thereto.

(c) Review from time to time, and as often as the Commission may deem advisable, the policies contained in the ordinances and regulations of the City relating to the subject of parking, traffic and vehicular safety and related matters and shall make such policy recommendations in the premises from time to time as the Commission may deem desirable with reference thereto.

(d) Advise generally on all matters pertaining to location, placement, installation, servicing and maintaining of existing and new parking meters, involving both on-street and off-street public parking.

(e) The preparation of traffic surveys relating to parking problems and the location, extent, development and improvement of public parking lots.

(f) The promulgation of rules and regulations relating to public parking for submission to the City Council for its consideration.

(g) Advise as to property acquisitions for public parking use including plans and arrangements for such acquisitions.

(h) As a matter of original jurisdiction to determine and resolve all controversies and questions which may from time to time arise with reference to public parking within the City subject to appeal to the City Council.

(i) Make recommendations to the City Council with reference to the use of funds received by the City from the operation of parking meters, parking facilities and traffic control subventions from the State of California.

(j) Conduct public hearings for the purpose of approving or denying special site wireless telecommunications permits for wireless telecommunications facilities in the public right-of-way adjacent to designated zones in the City of Inglewood.

(Ord. 2348 7-31-79; Ord. 96-21 9-24-96; Ord. 99-2 1-26-99; Ord. 10-13 9-28-10)

All matters relating to traffic and parking within the City of Inglewood as they relate to the regulation thereof shall be referred to said Parking and Traffic Commission for report and recommendation, and when so referred, said Commission shall render to the City Council, or to the Public Works Director, whichever is appropriate, its report and recommendation within thirty days, unless additional time be requested and granted; provided, however, that special permits provided for by other sections of this Code, temporary regulatory measures over which the City of Inglewood has jurisdiction relating to its own corporate activities, and such matters as the City Council shall, in its discretion, decide shall be done by Council resolution, may be adopted or made by said Public Works Director of his own volition, but said action shall be reported to the Commission at its next succeeding regular meeting.

(Ord. 1999 6-6-69; Ord. 2348 7-31-79; Ord. 96-21 9-24-96; Ord. 99-2 1-26-99)