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MINUTES OF THE CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE
October 9, 1990
City Attorney's Conference Room
6:30 p.m.
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Members Present:
Chairman Campbell, Members
Sharon Reid, John Dorso
Jack
Blakely,
Members Absent:
Members Susan Fuller, Mary Frances Click
(moved), and Carlos Batara
Staff Present:
Assistant City Attorney Rich Rudolf
Chairman Campbell called the meeting to order at 6:36 p.m. It
was moved by Member Reid, seconded by Membe-r Dor so and passed by
unanimous consent that the minutes for the meeting of
July 26, 1990 be approved. The Committee discussed the proposed
ordinance creating a Charter Review Committee. There was general
discussion to the effect that the Committee preferred that the
Council designate the Chairperson for the Committee, rather than
the Commi t tee select its own Chai rperson. It was satisfactory
that the Committee, operating with the Council-designated
Chairperson then select its own Vice Chairperson. The holdover
provision in Section 2.29.050A5 was discussed. The Committee was
encouraged that the provision places a limi t of a maximum six
months beyond which a holdover member could not continue to
serve, but felt that six months was too long a period of time.
Consistent with its action at its meeting of July 26, 1990, the
Committee again requested that the Council act more expeditiously
in filling vacancies, and that the Council consider amending
Section 2.29.050A5 to provide for a shorter time of holdover, in
any event no longer than two months for the purpose of
encouraging more timely appointments to fill vacancies. The
Committee wanted language "desexed" so that Chairman would become
"Chairperson". Finally, there was discussion to eliminate
proposed Sect ion 2.29.06 OAlb wh ich requi res a minimum of thr ee
additional meetings following the first pre-election
organizational meeting. The Committee felt it was unnecessary to
specifically tie down the Committee to meetings which could be
cancelled due to lack of any business pending before the
Commi ttee, and that the introductory language to Section
2.29.060Al would allow the Commi t tee, in combination wi th
subdivision A2 to have as many meetings, regular or special, as
it needed to efficiently conduct its business.
It was moved by Member Reid, seconded by Member Blakely and
passed by unanimous consent that Section 2.29.040Bl be amended to
add a sentence stating "The Council shall appoint the Chairperson
of the Commi ttee."; that the typographical errors on page 3 in
Section 2.29.050A2, 2.29.050A2a, and the renumbering of the
subsequent subdivisions from 4, 5 and 6 respectively to 3, 4 and
5; the addi tion of the letter "s" to member s in the term Staff
Ex-officio Member; that the following phrase be added to the new
subsection 3 relating to Staff Ex-officio Member: " and they
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Charter Review Committee Minutes
October 9, 1990
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shall serve at the pleasure of the Council (and if such addition
is made, then Section 2.29.05 OB2 may be deleted); that the term
of six months in Section 2.29.050A renumbered four be reduced to
some number not greater than two months; on page 4, that the
subdivisions in Section 2.29.050B be renumbered and relettered
and the provision relating to Staff Ex-officio Member ei ther be
pluralized or deleted with its text moved up to Section
2.29.050A3; on page 5, that Section 2.29.060Ala be amended to
provide "Select a Vice Chairperson from among its voting members
to serve for a period of two (2) years."; Subdivision B be
deleted in its entirety and Subdivisions C and D be relettered to
Band C respectively; that the word "regular" in Section
2.29.060A to be deleted and the word "Chairman n be changed to
"Chairperson".
The Commi ttee determined to meet again on October 24, 1990 at
5:30 p.m. at the San Diego County Club to consider the City
Attorney's proposed ordinance relating to advisory board direct
access to City Council agenda and the proposed Conflict of
Interest Code and any other items which may be brought forward by
the public at that time.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:53 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
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D. Rlchard Rudolf
Assistant City Attorney
Charter Review Committee
Secretary
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