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CITY OF PALM DESERT
CITY CLERK DEPARTMENT
STAFF REPORT
ANNUAL REORGANIZATION OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
Rachelle D. Klassen, City Clerk
December 12, 2013
• Staff Report
• Resolution No. 2013-14
Selection of Mayor and Mayor Pro-Tempore Pursuant to Resolution No. 2013-14.
a) Comments by Outgoing Mayor and Mayor Pro-Tempore.
Action:
i) City Clerk declares the seat of Mayor to be vacant and invites nominations
for the Office of City of Palm Desert Mayor for the coming year.
Action:
ii) City Clerk declares the seat of Mayor Pro-Tempore to
invites nominations for the Office of City of Palm
Pro-Tempore for the coming year.
Action:
b) Comments by newly selected Mayor and Mayor Pro-Tempore.
Action:
Backaround
be vacant and
Desert Mayor
As required by City practice and the updated Resolution No. 2013-14, the above actions are requested
to rotate the Office of Mayor and Mayor Pro-Tempore for the coming year at this, the first regular City
Council Meeting in December. Therefore, your participation and appropriate action in these processes
are requested.
Submitted by:
helle D. Klassen, MMCCity Clerk
M. Wohlmuth, City Manager
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Original on File with City Clerk's -Office
2013-2014 Officers
Mayor Van G. Tanner
Mayor Pro Tem Susan Marie Weber
RESOLUTION NO. 2013 -14
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA, RESCINDING ITS RESOLUTION
NO. 01-110 AND RESTATING ITS POLICY ON THE OFFICE OF
MAYOR AND THE OFFICE OF MAYOR PRO-TEMPORE
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Palm Desert, California, must
appoint from its own Members two Councilmembers to serve as Mayor and Mayor
Pro-Tempore; and
WHEREAS, it has been the desire of each City Council serving the City of
Palm Desert since incorporation to make these positions honorary in nature, held for
a one-year period of time; and
WHEREAS, it is this City Council's opinion that each Member elected to the
Council is equally qualified and deserving to hold these offices, and each
Councilmember should be given ample opportunity to serve in one or both of these
offices.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Palm Desert, California, that the appointments of Mayor and Mayor Pro-Tempore
shall be made on an annual rotating basis, and no one Councilmember shall serve
a term in either office to exceed a one-year period of time. The selection shall be
made and the term commence at the first regular Council Meeting in December each
year.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that prior to any Member of the Council being
appointed as Mayor, such Councilmember shall have been either a Member of the
Council for approximately two (2) years, and the Mayor Pro-Tempore shall have been
a Member of the Council for approximately one (1) year prior to being selected for
those respective offices; or in the absence of this occurrence, the Member's having
served at least one term on the Palm Desert Planning Commission will be sufficient
eligibility for appointment to the office.
BE IT EVEN FURTHER RESOLVED that when two or more Members of the
Council are sworn into office on the same day after being elected in the same
Municipal Election, the order of their service in the Mayoral Rotation shall be
established by number of votes received at said election, with the Member receiving
the highest number of votes being inserted first into the Mayoral Rotation and the
person receiving the next -highest number of votes being inserted next, and so on.
RESOLUTION NO. 2013 -14
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Palm Desert, California at its regular meeting held on the 14th day of March, 2013,,
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: BENSON, TANNER, WEBER, and HARNIK
NOES: SPIEGEL
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
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JAN C. HAWN , MAYOR
ATTEST:
RA HELLE D. KLASSE , CITY CLERK)
CITY OF PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA
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