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FROM: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE Costa
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DATE: November 4, 1996 q K�
SUBJECT: INTRODUCTION OF AN ORDINANCE TO REDUCE THE SIZE OF THE
HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
INTRODUCE, WAIVE reading, and FIX December 3, 1996 as the date to adopt an
ordinance that would gradually reduce the size of the Human Relations Commission
to nine members.
BACKGROUND:
The size of the Human Relations Commission is fixed by County ordinance.
Currently, the ordinance provides that the Commission shall have between 15 and
20 members. Our Committee believes that this is much too large a size for most
advisory bodies to be able to function effectively. In addition, the Commission has
had difficulty keeping members and there has been an almost constant recruitment
effort just to keep the Commission close to its permitted size.
Our Committee believes that the Commission could function much more effectively
if it had nine dedicated members who were committed to making the Commission
work. We are, therefore recommending that the eventual size of the Commission
be reduced to nine members. However, we want to achieve this level gradually. In
another report on the Board's agenda this same date, we are recommending that the
core members of the Newcomers Task Force be approached about joining the
Human Relations Commission. We want to be able to appoint to the Commission
as many of these members as wish to be appointed. We would then propose to
freeze the size of the Commission and let future vacancies reduce the Commission's
size until it reaches nine members, at which time normal recruitment efforts will be
resumed.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE ATHER
SIGNATURES
ACTION OF BOARD ON Alnvcmber 19, 1996 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS(ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON�THE DATE SHOWN.
ATTESTED I p
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Contact: County Administrator PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
cc: County Counsel SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Pam Perls, Executive Director, Human Relations Commission
Tim Dayonot, Chair, Human Relations Commission K
Trevor Norman, Secretary to the Human Relations Commission
BY DEPUTY
ORDINANCE NO. 96-
(Human Relations Commission Membership)
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows (omitting the
parenthetical footnotes from the official text from the enacted provisions of the County Ordinance
Code.)
SECTION I. Sections 26-8.012 and 26-8.014 of the Contra Costa County ordinance Code are
amended to read as follows:
26-8.012 Commission, membership, composition, and appointment. (a) The
commission shall have nine members.
(b) The membership shall be broadly representative of the general public, including, but
not limited to, members of business, labor, religious groups, education; criminal justice,
community organizations,and city representatives characteristic of the county's diverse population
with respect to sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, economic disadvantage or age.
(c) Commission members shall be appointed by the board of supervisors as a whole from
among individuals formally applying for or nominated for membership,taking into consideration,
among other things, the various religious, racial; nationality-and-.political groups in the county;
A11,members of the commission must be county,residents,.and!_at least one commission member
must reside in each.supervisorial district. .
(Govt-.-Code. § 50260 et se Ords. 96_ §I, 94-14 §41, 9335; 88-31; 86=84. 84-64- 69-2.)
26-8.014 Terms. (a) The commissioners, upon appointment, shall serve a term of three
years until their successors are duly appointed. Any vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired
term in the same manner as the original appointment.
(b) Commissioners may not be appointed to more than two full three-year terms. This
does not include initial appointments by lot or unexpired terms of less than three years.
(c) A vacancy shall exist and shall be reported to the board of supervisors whenever a
commissioner has three consecutive absences from regular meetings of the commission.
(Govt. Code § 50262, Ords. 96- §I, 86-84 § II, 81-64, 69-62.)
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SECTION II.
Not withstanding the provisions of SECTION I, commission members serving on the date this
ordinance is passed may serve until the end of their current three year terms but no longer, and
no new members shall be appointed so long as more than nine commission members are serving.
SECTION III. . EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30 days after
passage, and within 15 days after passage shall be published once with the names of supervisors,
voting for and against it in the , a newspaper published in this County.
(Gov. Code §§ 25123 & 25124.)
PASSED ON by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
ATTEST: PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk of
the Board and County Administrator
By:
Deputy Board Chair
[SEAL]
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