Rosemead Municipal Code Ch. 2.04 City Council

A. Each member of the City Council shall receive a salary, as provided in section B. Such salaries shall be payable at the same time and in the same manner as salaries are paid to other officers and employees of the City of Rosemead.

B. Pursuant to California Government Code Section 36516, each member of the city council, shall receive a salary in the amount of sixteen hundred dollars ($1,600.00) per month. That the salary shall become payable only on or after the date upon which one or more members of the City Council become eligible therefor by virtue of beginning a new term of office as provided for in California Government Code Section 36516.5.

(Prior code §§ 2300, 2301)

(Ord. No. 1020, § 1, 10-10-23)

Any councilmember shall be reimbursed for the necessary and actual expenses incurred in the performance of official duties. All expenses must be verified and documented. Expense advances may be made if approved by the City Council. Where an expense advance has been made, any funds unexpended for the relevant period or event must be returned to the city within seven working days following the period or event.

(Prior code § 2302)

The room designated as Council chambers located in the City Hall of the city of Rosemead at:

8838 East Valley Boulevard

Rosemead, California 91770

Shall be the Council chambers of the City Council and all meetings of the City Council and Commissions shall be held therein.

(Prior code § 2700)

Regular meetings of the City Council shall be on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the hour of six p.m. or if such date falls on a holiday on the next succeeding day which is not a holiday.

(Prior code § 2703; Ord. 920, § 2, 10-11-11; Ord. No. 924, § 1, 11-13-12)

Every official, board, commission or other body connected with the city government and every citizen, individual, corporation, committee or civic group having any reports, communications or other matters to be presented at a Council meeting shall notify the City Clerk of that fact and the subject thereof in writing before noon of the Tuesday preceding the day of such meeting, whereupon the City Clerk shall prepare an agenda setting forth such matters and the nature thereof under the headings set forth in Section 2.04.060, and setting forth all other matters to come before such meeting. The City Clerk shall, not later than Friday preceding such meeting, cause one copy thereof to be delivered to each councilmember. Matters deemed by the City Council to be of emergency are excepted from the foregoing provision. This section does not apply to oral communications from the audience when a Council meeting is in session.

(Prior code § 2704; Ord. No. 924, § 2, 11-13-12)

A. Regular meetings of the City Council shall be convened on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the hour of six p.m. or if such date falls on a holiday on the next succeeding day which is not a holiday. Regular City Council Meetings will be convened at 6:00 p.m. only if a study session, workshop or closed session is needed and placed on the posted agenda. If no study session, workshop or closed session is needed, regular City Council meetings will be convened at 7:00 p.m. and follow the Order of Business described in subsection B below.

B. Order of Business. Promptly at six p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month, the members of the City Council, City Manager, City Clerk, City Attorney or other officers, shall assemble at their regular stations in the Council chambers, whereupon the business of the meeting shall be taken up as follows or in the order as the City Council may, from time to time, prescribe by resolution.

(1) Call to order at six p.m., if necessary;

(2) Roll call;

(3) Flag salute;

(4) Study session or workshop;

(5) Closed session;

(6) Reconvene to open session at seven p.m. with another roll call and flag salute; or call the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. with roll call and flag salute;

(7) Public comments (the City Council will receive comments from persons in the audience on matters not listed on the agenda);

(8) Presentations;

(9) Public hearings;

(10) Consent items, including, but not limited to, approval of minutes, authorization or award of bids, demands;

(11) Matters from City Manager and staff;

(12) Matters from Mayor and City Council;

(13) Adjournment.

C. Ordinances. Ordinances may be introduced under the head of matters from the City Manager and staff or matters from the Mayor and City Council business by reading the title only. Ordinances ready for passage shall be taken up under unfinished business and be read in full unless the reading thereof is dispensed with by unanimous vote of the Council present after the reading of the title.

D. Resolutions. Resolutions may be introduced under the head of matters from the City Manager and staff, matters from the Mayor and City Council, or consent items by a majority vote of the City Council.

E. Discussion Procedure. While discussing any question under consideration by the Council, it shall be the duty of the members thereof to remain seated and address their remarks to the presiding officer and their fellow members. Any remarks or orders to the audience shall be addressed by the presiding officer, or with his permission, by members of the Council.

F. Copy of Minutes. Following each Council meeting the City Clerk shall provide a typewritten copy of the minutes thereof to each member of the City Council for action at a City Council meeting.

G. Rosenberg's Rules of Order. In all matters and things not otherwise provided for herein, the proceedings of the Council shall be governed by Rosenberg's Rules of Order as amended to be kept on file with the office of the City Clerk or other recognized rules adopted by the City Council by resolution. However, no ordinance, resolution, proceeding or other action of the City Council shall be invalidated, or the legality thereof otherwise affected, by the failure or omission to observe or follow said rules.

(Ord. 852 § 1, 2007; amended during 1999 codification; prior code §§ 2705—2712)

(Ord. No. 924, § 3, 11-13-12)

Special meetings of the City Council may be called at any time by the Mayor or by three members of the City Council, by written notice delivered personally to each member at least twenty-four (24) hours before the time specified for the proposed meeting. At any special meeting the power of the City Council to transact business shall be limited to matters referred to in the written meeting agenda for a properly noticed City Council Meeting.

(Prior code § 2713; Ord. No. 924, § 4, 11-13-12)

In order to expedite the orderly procedure of the City Council meetings, in the event the Mayor cannot be present, the Council shall also elect some other member of the City Council who shall act as Mayor pro tem in his or her absence.

(Prior code § 2714)

A person is not eligible to hold office as councilmember, unless he or she is at the time of assuming such office an elector of the city, and was a registered voter of the city at the time nomination papers are issued to the candidate as provided for in Section 10227 of the Elections Code. If, during his or her term of office, he or she moves his or her place of residence outside the city limits or ceases to be an elector of the City, his or her office shall immediately become vacant.

(Prior code § 2715)