Redding Municipal Code Ch. 2.68 Housing Authority

Pursuant to the California Housing Authorities Law, the city council finds and declares the following:

A. Unsanitary and unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the city;

B. There is a shortage of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations in the city, available to persons of low income at rentals they can afford;

C. There is need for a housing authority to function in the city.

(Ord. 1245 § 1 (part), 1976: prior code § 2-117)

The board of commissioners of the housing authority shall consist of six members, namely each of the five city council members and one member of the housing authority resident advisory board. The resident advisory board member shall be appointed by the mayor, subject to the approval of a majority of the members of the city council.

The term of office of the resident advisory board member shall be for four years; except that if a vacancy shall occur for any reason it shall be filled by appointment by the mayor, subject to the approval of a majority of the members of the city council, for the unexpired portion of the term.

The term of office for each city council member serving on the board of commissioners shall coincide with each member's term of office on the city council.

(Ord. 2273 § 2, 2000)

The resident advisory board member of the board of commissioners may be removed by the city council. Any such member of the board who fails to attend four consecutive meetings of the board without permission from the city council to be absent shall be considered automatically removed, and a vacancy shall be deemed to have occurred unless good cause is shown. The city council shall be the sole judge as to whether or not good cause is shown; and when it is determined that it is not, then the vacancy so created shall be filled immediately by the mayor, with and subject to the approval of the city council, for the unexpired portion of the term.

(Ord. 2273 § 3, 2000)