Charter Review Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
Monday, April 22, 2024, 3:00 P.M.
1. Ballot Measures Already Adopted by City Council for November 5, 2024 General Municipal Election
a. Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance i. Need to revise to include correct ordinance
b. Permitting Noncitizen Voting in all City Municipal Elections i. Flesh out to include Charter language rather than just referring to an ordinance
2. Potential Charter Amendments
a. Finance and Management Services Suggestions/Clean-Up i. Section 1002(a)(5) to remove reference to Fire Chief ii. Section 1103 – is Official Bonds section outdated or no longer necessary? iii. Section 611 – review definition of “fund” and address levy that may be incongruent with current law
b. Human Resources Suggestions
i. Eliminate Personnel Board (edits to Sections 9-2, 9-4, 9-5, 9-6, 9-9, 9-10, 9-16) ii. Committee requested information on how an elimination of the Personnel Board may affect non-Police departments; check with bargaining units for their thoughts; separate out responsibilities between the Personnel Board and the Police Oversight Committee; options regarding mediator/arbitratrator and cost information
c. Other
i. Council Compensation: review options pertaining to General Law cities, General Law cities plus population indicator; General Law cities plus population by district indicator; full-time Councilmembers
ii. Regional Agencies Compensation: ok at possible City-paid compensation for participation in regional agencies that do not provide compensation; possibly tie to median of all regional agency payments or directly to OCWD iii. Ethics Code: enforcement process: review and provide options; private Attorney General; censure process/policy
iv. Clean-up: update reference to “secretary to the City Manager” to modernize (Sec. 1002)
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3. Schedule of Committee Meetings
a. Scheduled Meetings: Thursday, May 16, 2pm; Tuesday, May 21, 1pm b. Duration – 1 hour
c. Department directors to be invited to meetings where the topic pertains to their operations.
d. Length of Committee – currently scheduled through end of May 2024 i. Deadline to send items to Orange County Registrar of Voters is Friday, August 9 but requested by Friday, July 19, 2024.