There shall be two regular meetings of the city council during
each calendar month, and such meetings shall be held at the time and
place or places within the city as designated by resolution of the
city council. If the date of any such regular business meeting falls
on a holiday, such regular meeting shall be held at the same hour
as specified in such resolution on the next succeeding day which is
not a holiday or Saturday or Sunday.
(Prior code § 2600; Ord. 1033 § 1, 2007; Ord. 1076 § 6, 2013)
City councilmembers shall be compensated for their services
in the sum of eight hundred twenty-two dollars and fourteen cents
per month each, which salary shall be a charge against the city and
payable each and every month during said term or terms of office.
(Prior code § 2300.1; Ord. 693 § 1, 1985; Ord. 722 § 1, 1986; Ord.
750 § 1, 1988; Ord. 910 § 1, 1998; Ord. 956 § 1,
2000; Ord. 987 § 1, 2002)
Upon the submission of an itemized account, any councilmember
may be reimbursed for his or her actual and necessary expenses incurred
in the performance of official duty. "Actual and necessary expenses"
shall be those actually and necessarily performed in carrying out
the city's business, and computed in accordance with standard accounting
practices and the city council's general policy. Only those expenses
incurred by reason of the performance of official and public duty
or by reason of the performance of duty imposed by the city council
shall be subject to reimbursement.
(Prior code § 2300)
A. Decorum.
Meetings of the city council shall be conducted in an orderly manner
to ensure that the public has a full opportunity to be heard and that
the deliberative process of the council is retained at all times.
The presiding officer of the council, who shall be the mayor, mayor
pro tempore or, in their absence, other member so designated by the
council, shall be responsible for maintaining the order and decorum
of meetings.
B. Rules
of Decorum. While any meeting of the city council is in session, the
following rules of order and decorum shall be observed:
1. Persons
Addressing the Council. Public oral communications at the city council
meetings should not be a substitute for any item that can be handled
during the normal working hours of the municipal government. The primary
purpose of oral communications is to allow citizens the opportunity
to formally communicate with the city council as a whole, for matters
that cannot be handled during the regular working hours of the city
government. Each person who addresses the council shall do so in an
orderly manner and shall not make personal, impertinent, slanderous
or profane remarks to any member of the council, staff or general
public. Any person who makes such remarks, or who utters loud, threatening,
personal or abusive language, or engages in any other disorderly conduct
which disrupts, disturbs or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct
of any council meeting shall, at the discretion of the presiding officer
or a majority of the council, be barred from further audience before
the council during that meeting.
2. Members
of the Audience.
a. No person in the audience at a council meeting shall engage in disorderly
or boisterous conduct, including the utterance of loud, threatening
or abusive language, whistling, stamping of feet or other acts which
disturb or otherwise impede the orderly conduct of any council meeting.
Any person who conducts himself in the aforementioned manner shall,
at the discretion of the presiding officer or a majority of the council,
be barred from further audience before the council during that meeting.
b. In the event that any meeting is wilfully interrupted by a group
or groups of persons so as to tender the orderly conduct of such meeting
unfeasible and order cannot be restored by the removal of individuals
who are wilfully interrupting the meeting, the members of the legislative
body conducting the meeting may order the meeting room cleared and
continue in session. Only matters appearing on the agenda may be considered
in such a session. Representatives of the press or other news media,
except those participating in the disturbance, shall be allowed to
attend any session held pursuant to this section. Nothing in this
section shall prohibit the legislative body from establishing a procedure
for readmitting an individual or individuals not responsible for wilfully
disturbing the orderly conduct of the meeting.
C. Addressing
the Council. A person wishing to address the council during the period
set aside for oral communications may seek recognition by the presiding
officer of the council. No person shall address the council without
first being recognized by the presiding officer. The following procedures
shall be observed by persons addressing the council:
1. Prior
to the start of oral communication, each person shall submit a request
to speak on a form provided by the city clerk. During oral communications,
each person shall step up to the podium provided for the use of the
public and shall state their name;
2. During
the "oral communications" any subject which is not deemed relevant
shall be precluded;
3. Each
person shall limit his or her remarks to a combined total of three
minutes in conjunction with oral communication presented by that person
to the Pico Rivera redevelopment agency, housing assistance authority,
water authority and/or public financing authority oral communication;
4. All
remarks shall be addressed to the presiding officer and not to any
single member of the council, unless in response to a question from
said member.
D. Enforcement of Decorum. The rules of decorum set forth in subsections
B and
C of this section shall be enforced in the following manner:
1. Warning.
The presiding officer shall request that a person who is breaching
the rules of decorum be orderly and silent. If, after receiving a
warning from the presiding officer, a person persists in disturbing
the meeting, the presiding officer shall order him or her to leave
the council meeting. If such person does not remove him or her or
herself, the presiding officer may order any law enforcement officer
who is on duty at such meeting as sergeant-at-arms of the council
to remove that person from the council chambers.
2. Removal.
Any law enforcement officer who is serving as sergeant-at-arms of
the council shall carry out all orders and instructions given by the
presiding officer for the purpose of maintaining order and decorum
at the council meeting. Upon instruction of the presiding officer,
it shall be the duty of the sergeant-at-arms to remove from the council
meeting any person who is disturbing the proceedings of the council.
3. Resisting
Removal. Any person who resists removal by the sergeant-at-arms shall
be charged with a violation of this section.
4. Penalty. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, pursuant to Section
1.20.010 of this code, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
5. Motion
to Enforce. If the presiding officer of the council fails to enforce
the rules set forth in this section, any member of the council may
move to require him or her to do so, and an affirmative vote of a
majority of the council shall require him or her to do so. If the
presiding officer of the council fails to carry out the will of a
majority of the council, the majority may designate another member
of the council to act as presiding officer for the limited purpose
of enforcing any rule of this section which it wishes enforced.
6. Adjournment.
If a meeting of the council is disturbed or disrupted in such a manner
as to make infeasible or improbable the restoration of order, the
meeting may be adjourned or continued by the presiding officer or
a majority of the council, and any remaining council business may
be considered at the next meeting.
(Ord. 783 § 2, 1990; Ord. 822 § 1, 1992; Ord. 1020 §§ 1, 2, 2006)
Pursuant to Section 1301 of the California
Elections Code, the
city municipal election date shall be held on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday of November in each even-numbered year, commencing
on November 6, 2018 to coincide with the statewide election.
Those elected officers of the city of Pico Rivera whose terms
of office would have, prior to the adoption of the ordinance codified
in this chapter, expired following the November, 2017 general municipal
election, shall, instead, continue in their respective offices until
the certification of the 2018 election results by the city council.
Those elected officers of the city of Pico Rivera whose terms
of office would have, prior to the adoption of the ordinance codified
in this chapter, expired following the November, 2019, general municipal
election, shall instead, continue in their respective offices until
the certification of the election results by the city council for
the 2020 general municipal election of the city of Pico Rivera.
(Ord. 853 § 1, 1994; Ord. 1034 § 1, 2007; Ord. 1103 § 2, 2016)