Only United States citizens may be elected or appointed officers
of the City. Furthermore, in order to be eligible for City office,
any councilmember elected or appointed to represent an electoral district
must reside in that district and be a registered voter in that district,
and any candidate for city council must reside in, and be a registered
voter in, the district in which the candidate seeks election at the
time nomination papers are issued.
(Res. No. 240; amended April 13, 1982; amended
by General Municipal Election on November 2, 2010; Amended by General Municipal Election on November 3, 2020)
Every elective officer, the City manager, and every department
head of the City, before assuming the duties of office, shall take
and subscribe to each constitutional oath of office. Each of these
officers of the City shall provide such bonds for faithful performance
of their duties as may be required by law. The required oaths and
bonds shall be filed with the City clerk; provided that the oath and
bond required of the City clerk, if any, shall be filed with the City
treasurer. All such bonds shall be corporate surety bonds and the
premiums thereon shall be paid by the City.
(Amended by General Municipal Election on November 2, 2010)
All City officers or employees receiving, disbursing, or responsible
for City funds shall be bonded. The council may require any officer
or employee to give a bond, conditioned upon the faithful and proper
performance of the duties of office or employment, and approved by
and in such amount as the council shall determine. All such bonds
shall be corporate surety bonds and the premiums thereon shall be
paid by the City. No such bond shall be issued for a term exceeding
four (4) years. No bond required by this section shall be renewed
upon its expiration or in the event of the reappointment of any officer
or employee to a position for which a bond is required, but a new
bond shall be furnished. The resignation, removal, or discharge of
any officer or employee of the City shall not, nor shall the election
or appointment of another to office or employment, exonerate such
officer or employee or sureties from any liability incurred by them.
Nothing in this section shall prevent the council from authorizing
the furnishing of a blanket position bond to assure the honesty or
faithful performance of any of its officers or employees.
(Amended by General Municipal Election on November 2, 2010)
City officers shall not be financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members; and shall not be purchasers at any sale, or vendors at any purchase, made by them in their official capacity. It is the intent of the foregoing to incorporate by reference, as though set forth in full herein, the provisions of Article 4 of Title
1, commencing with Section 1090 of the California
Government Code.
(Res. No. 240; amended by General Municipal Election on November 7, 2000; Amended by General Municipal Election on November 2, 2010)
a. The
council may enact an ordinance providing that each member of the council
shall receive a salary, the amount of which shall be determined by
the following schedule:
1. If
the City's population is between 50,000 and 75,000 persons, inclusive,
the salary shall be five hundred dollars ($500) per month for each
councilmember, and the mayor shall receive an additional amount of
fifty dollars ($50) per month.
2. If
the City's population exceeds 75,000 persons, the salary shall be
six hundred dollars ($600) per month for each councilmember and the
mayor shall receive an additional fifty dollars ($50) per month.
b. Councilmembers
may, upon order of the council, be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary
expenses actually incurred in the service of the City.
(Res. No. 240; amended by General Municipal Election on November 5, 1985; amended by General Municipal Election on November 7, 2000; Amended by General Municipal
Election on November 2, 2010)
The rates and other terms of compensation of the City manager
and the City attorney shall be fixed by the council. Except as otherwise
provided in this charter the compensation of all officers and employees
of the City shall be fixed by the City manager within the limits of
budget appropriations and in accordance with a comprehensive pay plan
adopted by the council.
(Amended by General Municipal Election on November 2, 2010)
(Amended by General Municipal Election on November 7, 2000; Amended by General Municipal
Election on November 2, 2010)
The council may provide for the retirement of the City's non-elective
officers and employees and make available to them any group life,
hospital, health or accident insurance, either independently of, or
as a supplement to, any retirement or other employee welfare benefits
in effect at the time of approval of this charter by the legislature
or otherwise provided by law.
(Amended by General Municipal Election on November 2, 2010)
a. An office
becomes vacant on the happening of any of the following events before
the expiration of the councilmember's term:
1. Upon
any of the grounds listed in Section 1770 of the California Government
Code as it now exists or may hereafter be amended.
2. Upon
termination of residency in an electoral district by a councilmember
elected or appointed to that district unless a substitute residence
within the district is immediately declared and established within
thirty (30) calendar days after the termination of residency.
b. When
a vacancy is, for any reason, anticipated in advance of its actual
occurrence, the council shall initiate the appointment or election
process in anticipation of the vacancy. The councilmember who will
be vacating the seat may not participate in the process.
c. Any
vacancy on the council may be filled by a majority vote of the remaining
councilmembers within sixty (60) calendar days after the vacancy occurs.
A person appointed by the council to fill a vacancy shall hold office
until the next feasible election. A councilmember elected to fill
a vacancy thereafter shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired
term. No person may be appointed to the council more than once.
d. If the council fails, for any reason, to fill such vacancy within the sixty (60) day period set forth in subsection
c, it shall forthwith call an election for the earliest possible date to fill such vacancy. A councilmember elected to fill a vacancy shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term.
e. In the
event of a vacancy in the office of mayor, the vice mayor shall be
seated as mayor and shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired
term being assumed. In the event of a vacancy in the office of vice
mayor, a vice mayor shall be seated from the electoral district next
in rotation and shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired
term being assumed. The filling of vacancies pursuant to this subsection,
however, shall not disrupt the normal mayoral and vice mayoral rotation
and shall not result in reducing a mayor's or vice mayor's scheduled
term.
(Res. No. 240; amended by General Municipal Election on November 7, 2000; amended by General Municipal Election on November 2, 2010; Amended by General Municipal
Election on November 3, 2020)
The holder of any elective office, whether elected or appointed
thereto, may be removed therefrom by recall in the manner prescribed
by the constitution and general laws of the state.
All books, documents, and other personal property purchased
by the City and all records, documents, and other papers prepared
by officials in the discharge of their duties shall be and remain
the property of the City. The council shall prescribe by ordinance
appropriate procedures with respect to resignations of officers and
employees and with respect to the orderly transfer of records, assets,
and other effects in the custody of such officers and employees, to
their successors or supervisors.
(Amended by General Municipal Election on November 2, 2010)