Irvine Municipal Code Ch. 3 Committees

Committees may be established from time-to-time to perform one or more specific assigned tasks on a temporary basis. Committees may be appointed and tasks assigned by the City Council or a commission (but, in the case of a commission, only for the purpose of performing specific tasks within the respective general areas of concern of the commission). Unless otherwise directed by the City Council, upon completion of an assigned task, the committee shall forward a written report regarding the results thereof to the assigning authority, together with recommendations where appropriate. Unless otherwise directed by the City Council, upon submission of its report(s) as to all assigned tasks, and formal acceptance thereof by the assigning authority, the committee is automatically dissolved.

(Code 1976, § I.F-301; Res. No. 396, § 4.1, 3-11-75; Ord. No. 24-20, § 2(Exh. A), 11-26-24)

The structure, composition, number of members, manner of their appointment or selection, and other matters necessary to the creation and operation of each committee shall be determined in each case by the authority which establishes such committee, subject, however, to compliance with this division and Division 15 of Title 1.

(Code 1976, § I.F-302; Res. No. 396, § 4.2, 3-11-75; Ord. No. 18-10, § 4, 11-13-18; Ord. No. 22-02, § 4, 4-12-22)

No committee shall be established without prior consultation between the City Manager, or his or her delegate, and the authority proposing to establish such committee:

A. To determine that such committee's proposed assignment or assignments will not substantially duplicate an assignment of another committee already in existence, or a task on which a commission is then engaged; and

B. If the authority proposing to establish the committee is a commission, to determine that the proposed assignment or assignments are within the general area of concern of the commission. Where a proposed assignment is closely or logically related to work already assigned to an existing committee, then, unless exceptional circumstances justify a new committee, such assignment shall be given to the already-existing committee.

(Code 1976, § I.F-303; Res. No. 396, § 4.3, 3-11-75)

Committees may appoint their own subcommittees, but only from their own membership. A committee shall not, however, assign to a subcommittee any matter not directly related to the specific assignment or assignments given to that committee by an appropriate authority under these rules and regulations. No committee shall generate its own assignments or tasks.

(Code 1976, § I.F-304; Res. No. 396, § 4.4, 3-11-75)