Rosemead Municipal Code Ch. 2.28 Planning Commission

A planning commission which may be known and referred to as the Planning Commission of the City of Rosemead is established in accordance with the provisions of the local planning law as provided in Chapter 3 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code of the state of California, as amended to date and as the same may hereafter be amended.

(Prior code § 2500)

The Planning Commission shall consist of five members, each of whom shall be appointed by the Mayor with the consent of the majority of the members of the City Council and otherwise in accordance with state law. An appointed member of the Planning Commission may be removed at any time by the Mayor, with approval of the Council, or by a majority vote of the City Council. Each member of the Planning Commission shall have a term of office of two years which shall be staggered. Three members shall be appointed in the odd numbered years and two members shall be appointed in even numbered years. Terms shall commence on July 1 and expire on June 30 of the appropriate calendar year, unless a lesser term is necessary to fill a vacancy. Should any vacancy exist on the Planning Commission, otherwise than by expiration of term, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired portion of the term.

(Prior code § 2501)

(Ord. No. 875, § 1, 6-23-09; Ord. No. 965, § 1, 10-11-16)

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any Commissioner who absents himself or herself from any three consecutive regular meetings of the Planning Commission, unless excused from such attendance by consent of such Commission expressed by action of record in its minutes or who is absent from a total of five regular meetings of the Commission in any six months' period without such consent of such Commission so expressed of record, shall thereby automatically forfeit his or her position or office as a member of the Planning Commission, and the name of such person shall automatically be removed from the membership of the Commission immediately after the adjournment of any such third consecutive meeting or of any such fifth meeting in any such six months' period, as the case may be, at which such Commissioner has not appeared.

The chair or the secretary of the Commission shall thereupon promptly notify the City Council, and any such person so ceasing to be such Commissioner, of such fact; whereupon the vacancy so created shall be filled by appointment.

(Prior code § 2502)

The Planning Commission and the members thereof shall respectively have and exercise each and all of the powers, duties, rights, privileges and authorities of City Planning Commissions and of members of such commissions, all as set forth, provided for, and contemplated in this code and in and under the provisions of said planning law as same now exists and as same may hereafter be amended, and shall perform the duties, acts and functions of such City Planning Commission, and members thereof, respectively, all as indicated, set forth and referred to in, and as contemplated by, said planning law and in the manner therein stated.

(Prior code § 2503)

The Commission shall cause proper records to be kept of all its official acts and proceedings, and shall make reports to the City Council, all as contemplated in and by said planning law.

(Prior code § 2504)

Except as otherwise provided in this code 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.

(Prior code § 2505)

Regular meetings of the Planning Commission shall be on the first and third Mondays of each month at the hour of seven p.m. or if such date falls on a holiday on the next succeeding day which is not a holiday.

(Prior code § 2506; Ord. No. 924, § 6, 11-13-12)