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RESOLUTION NO. 2014 -32
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF
THE CITY OF SANTA ANA APPROVING AND ADOPTING
AMENDMENTS TO THE BYLAWS OF THE PLANNING
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Planning Commission of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds,
determines and declares as follows:
A. The powers and duties of the Planning Commission are specified in
Section 910 of the Charter of the City of Santa Ana and in Section 2 -350,
et seq., of the Santa Ana Municipal Code.
B. The City Charter requires that each board or commission prescribe rules
and regulations governing its operations.
C. The current Bylaws of the Planning Commission of the City of Santa Ana
are set forth in Resolution No. 01 -44, adopted September 24, 2001, as
amended by Resolution No. 2014 -24, adopted July 28, 2014.
D. On March 10, 2014, the Santa Ana City Attorney presented an ethics
seminar to the Planning Commission at which time the City Attorney told
the Planning Commissioners that the best practice for addressing ex parte
communications would be to require each Planning Commissioner to
submit written disclosure forms regarding ex parte communications. The
Planning Commission immediately began implementing this process and
later added the use of written disclosure forms as an amendment to the
Planning Commission Bylaws.
E. The Planning Commission desires to again amend its Bylaws herein. All
portions of Planning Commission Resolution No. 01 -44 and Planning
Commission Resolution No. 2014 -24 not revised by this resolution shall
remain in full force and effect.
F. All provisions of the Planning Commission Bylaws that are repeated herein
are repeated solely in order to comply with the provisions of Section 418 of
the City Charter. Any such restatement of existing provisions of the Bylaws
is not intended, nor shall it be interpreted, as constituting a new action or
decision of the Planning Commission, but rather such provisions are
repeated for tracking purposes only in conformance with the Charter.
Section 2. The Planning Commission of the City of Santa Ana hereby
approves and adopts the following amendments to the Bylaws of the Planning
Commission of the City of Santa Ana as follows (new language underlined):
16. ENFORCEMENT
If any Planning Commissioner is found by a majority of the Planning Commission
to be in violation of any section of these Bylaws of the Planning Commission or the
Code of Ethics and Conduct, the Planning Commission, upon majority vote of the
Planning Commission, may take any or all of the following actions:
1) Prepare a letter informing the City Council of a breach of the
Bylaws and /or Code of Ethics and Conduct; and,
2) Prepare a letter to the City Council requesting action be taken to
address the situation.
Section 3. This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by
the Planning Commission, and the Commission Secretary shall attest to and certify the
vote adopting this Resolution.
ADOPTED this 8t" day of September , 2014.
AYES: Commissioners: Alderete, Bauer, Gartner, Mill, Nalle, Yrarrazaval (6)
NOES: Commissioners:
ABSENT: Commissioners:
ABSTENTIONS: Commissioners:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R. Carvalho, City Attorney
By:
Rye
As:
Bacerra (1)
None (0)
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None (0)
Eric Alderete
Chairman
CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, KAREN GERARDO, Clerk of the Planning Commission, do hereby attest to and certify
the attached Resolution No. 2014 -32 to be the original resolution adopted by the
Planning Commission of the City of Santa Ana on September 8, 2014.
Date:' -���,�
Clerk of the Planning Commission
City of Santa Ana