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)