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Any member or other person(s) using profane, vulgar, loud or boisterous language at any meeting or otherwise interrupting the proceedings, who refuses to be seated or kept quiet when ordered to do so by the Mayor or other presiding officer of the Council, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Any member or other person(s) or group(s) who otherwise disrupt a public meeting is subject to removal and arrest in accordance with Chapter 1.25 of this Code.
A. Compensation of City Council and Elected Mayor.
1. Compensation shall be paid to each member of the City Council as prescribed in Government Code Sections 36516(a)(1) and (c), authorizing the City Council to provide by ordinance that each member of the City Council shall receive a prescribed salary, the amount of which shall be based upon the population of the City as determined by estimates made by the State Department of Finance.
2. Each member of the City Council shall receive as salary the sum of eight hundred fifty dollars and eight cents ($850.08) per month, as prescribed in Government Code Section 36516 for cities up to and including thirty-five thousand (35,000) in population, provided, however, that the City Council may increase that amount in accordance with subdivision (c) of Government Code Section 36516.
3. Following any new and later authorized estimate of population or census placing the City in a population group other than that set forth in Subsection 2 of this Section, the salary payable to each member of the City Council shall be increased or decreased accordingly to equal the sum prescribed for that population group in said Government Code Section 36516, provided, however, the salary so increased or decreased shall become payable only on and after the date upon which one (1) or more members of the City Council become eligible therefore by virtue or beginning a new term of office following the next succeeding general municipal election held in the City.
4. In accordance with Government Code Sections 34900 to 34904, inclusive, the electors have determined that the City Charter shall be amended to provide for the office of an elected Mayor, commencing with the 2004 general municipal election. Pursuant to Government Code Section 34903, the Mayor is a member of the City Council and has all of the powers and duties of a member of the City Council. However, in accordance with Government Code Section 36516.1, the City Council may provide the elected Mayor with compensation in addition to that which he/she receives as a member of the City Council. Such additional compensation may be provided by an ordinance adopted by the City Council or by a majority vote of the electors voting on the proposition at a municipal election.
5. In accordance with Government Code Section 36516.5, a change in compensation shall not apply to the elected Mayor or to a member of the City Council during his/her term of office.
6. Effective the first day of December 2022, and in accordance with Government Code Section 36516.1, the City's elected Mayor shall receive a salary in the amount of one thousand one hundred eight dollars and eighty cents ($1,108.80) per month.
B. Reimbursement of City Council and Elected Mayor. The compensation prescribed herein for the elected Mayor and the City Council is and shall be exclusive of any amounts payable to the elected Mayor and/or each member of the City Council as reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred by him or her in the performance of official duties for the City; and, accordingly, the elected Mayor and each member of the City Council shall receive reimbursement for such actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties for the City pursuant to the provisions of Government Code Section 36514.5, as amended from time to time. Such reimbursement shall be as established by policy adopted by the City Council.
C. Health and Welfare Benefits for the Mayor and City Council. In accordance with Government Code Sections 36516(d) and 53200 through 53210, and, in accordance with Government Code Section 53208.5, the City Council shall receive health and welfare benefits in accordance with the most generous schedule of benefits being received by any category of non-safety employees.
[Ord. No. 415, Section 1, 5/12/04; Ord. No. 469, 9/12/07; Ord. No. 492, 11/24/09; Ord. No. 595, Sections 1, 2, 9/26/18; Ord. No. 626, Sections 3, 4, 3/23/22.]
A. Except when an appeals procedure is otherwise specifically set forth in this Code, any person excepting to the denial, suspension or revocation of a permit applied for or held by him pursuant to any of the provisions of this Code or other City ordinance, or to any administrative decision made by any official of the City, if the denial, suspension or revocation of such permit or the determination of such administrative decision involves the exercise of administrative discretion or personal judgment exercised pursuant to any of the provisions of this Code or other City ordinance, may appeal in writing to the City Council by filing with the City Clerk a written notice of such appeal.
B. No appeal may be taken to any such administrative decision made by an official of the City pursuant to any of the provisions of this Chapter unless such decision to appeal has been first taken up with the department head concerned and with the City Manager, and each such official has not adjusted the matter to the appellant's satisfaction.
C. No right of appeal to the City Council from any administrative decision made by an official of the City pursuant to any of the provisions of this Code or other City ordinance shall exist when such decision is ministerial and thus does not involve the exercise of administrative discretion or personal judgment exercised pursuant to any of the provisions of this Code or other City ordinance, whether the administrative decision involves the denial, suspension or revocation of a permit or any other administrative decision. Also, there shall be no such right of appeal with regard to law enforcement activities involving State law.
A. Any notice of appeal to the City Council must be filed within fifteen (15) days of the date of service of notice of the decision or action pursuant to Section 1.10.030 of this Code or within fifteen (15) days of the decision or action if no notice of the decision or action is required to be given.
B. The notice of appeal shall set forth (1) the specific action appealed from, (2) the specific grounds of the appeal and (3) the relief or action sought from the City Council. In the event any notice of appeal fails to set forth any information required by this Section, the City Clerk shall return the same to the appellant with a statement of the respects in which it is deficient, and the appellant shall thereafter be allowed five (5) days in which to perfect and refile the notice of appeal.
C. Except in those instances where an appeal is filed by the City Manager or other public official in pursuance of official duties, the written notice of appeal from the action of an administrative official or from an administrative body of the City, as the case may be, shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) or such other fee as may be required by other enactment or resolution of the City Council.
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