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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.)
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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 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
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