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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCES - 12171996 - 96-40 r a. i7 -I ORDINANCE NO. 96- 40 (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. All members of the commission must be county residents, and at least one commission member must reside in each supervisorial district. (Govt. Code, § 50260 et seq.;Ords. 96- 40§I, 94-14 § II, 93-35, 88-31, 86-84, 81-64, 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. 96-40§I, 86-84 § 11, 81-64, 69-62.) ORDINANCE NO. 96_40 1 K 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 Ccntra-Costa Tisa newspaper published in this County. (Gov. Code §§ 25123 & 25124.) PASSED ON December 17, 1996 , by the following vote: AYES: Supervisors Rogers, Bishop, DeSaulnier, Canciamilla and Smith NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None ATTEST: PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk of the Board and County Administrator By: A (let A 0 0 A _j Deputy Bo d it [SEAL] cacwalt\ordin.vjw ORDINANCE NO. 96-40 2