HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1242ORDINANCE NO. 1242
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
-- PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 2.36.250,
2.36.300, 2.36.430 AND REPEALING 2.36.480 OF THE CODE
OF THE CITY OF PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA — DEALING
WITH THE CONDUCT OF COUNCIL MEETINGS
The City Council of the City of Palm Desert, California does hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1.
That Section 2.36.250 of the Code of the City of Palm Desert, California be and
the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 2.36.250 Propriety of conduct — Procedure.
Each person desiring to address the city council shall approach the podium, state
his/her name and address for the record, state the subject he/she wishes to discuss,
state whom he/she is representing if he/she represents an organization or other
persons, and unless further time is granted by majority vote of the council, shall limit
his/her remarks to three minutes. All remarks shall be addressed to the council as a
whole and not to any member thereof. No questions shall be asked of a councilperson
or member of the city staff without obtaining permission of the presiding officer. Any
person violating this section while addressing the city council shall be called to order by
the presiding officer, and if such conduct continues, may at the discretion of the
presiding officer be ordered barred from further audience, and if the conduct warrants,
such person may be ordered removed from the council chambers."
SECTION 2.
That Section 2.36.300 of the Code of the City of Palm Desert, California be and
the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
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"Section 2.36.300 Disqualification for conflict of interest.
OR
Any councilperson who is disqualified from voting on a particular matter by .W
reason of a conflict of interest shall publicly state, or have the presiding officer state, the
nature of such disqualification in the open city council meeting. Where no clearly
disqualifying conflict of interest appears, the matter of disqualification may, at the
request of the councilperson affected, be decided by the other councilpersons. A
councilperson who is disqualified by reason of a conflict of interest in any matter shall
remove himself or herself from the council chamber. A councilperson stating such
disqualification shall not be counted as a part of a quorum and shall be considered
absent for the purpose of determining the outcome of any vote on such matter."
SECTION 3.
That Section 2.36.430 of the Code of the City of Palm Desert, California be and Md
the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 2.36.430 Public hearing — Reopening.
A public hearing on any matter once closed cannot be reopened on the date set
for hearing unless the presiding officer can and has determined that none of the parties
involved in such hearing have left the council chambers. Nothing in this chapter,
however, is intended to prevent or prohibit the reopening of a public hearing at any
subsequent regular or special meeting of the city council. No public hearing may be
reopened without due and proper notice being given to the applicant and his opponents
designating the time and place of the reopening unless reopened in accordance with
this section at the same meeting."
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SECTION 4.
That Section 2.36.480 of the Code of the City of Palm Desert, California be and
the same is hereby deleted.
SECTION 5.
The City Clerk of the City of Palm Desert, California, is hereby directed to
publish this ordinance in the Desert Sun, a newspaper of general circulation, published
and circulated in the City of Palm Desert, California, and shall be in full force and
effective thirty (30) days after its adoption.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the Palm Desert City Council this 27TH day
of September., 2012, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: BENSON, FINERTY,HARNIK, KROONEN, and SPIEGEL
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
ATTEST:
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