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Meeting Date: 1/22/2013
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION
MEETING DATE: 1/22/2013
SUBMITTED TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
SUBMITTED BY: Fred A. Wilson, City Manager
PREPARED BY: Joan L. Flynn, City Clerk
SUBJECT: Adopt Resolution No. 2013-01 fixing the start time of the Study Session
portion of regular City Council meetings as 4:30 p.m.
Statement of Issue: During the City Council meeting of December 17, 2012, Council voted
unanimously to change the start time of the study session portion of regular City Council meetings
from 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Staff was directed to prepare and return with an appropriate
Resolution.
Financial Impact: None.
Recommended Action:
Adopt Resolution No. 2013-01, "A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach
Change the Time of City Council Meetings."
Alternative Action(s):
Do no adopt Resolution No. 2013-01 and direct staff accordingly.
Analysis:
Currently, City Council meetings, as set by Resolution 2004-95, begin at 4:00 p.m. Section 303a of
the City Charter allows the City Council to set the meeting time by Ordinance or Resolution. At the
December 17, 2012 meeting, Councilmember Boardman submitted an agenda item asking Council to
consider a request to fix the start time of City Council meetings to 4:30 p.m. After discussion, Council
voted 7-0 to direct staff to prepare a Resolution changing the start time of the Study Session portion
of the meeting from 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Direction was also given that the start time of the business
and public comment portion of regular City Council meetings was to remain at 6:00 p.m.
Resolution 2013-01 fixes the start time of regular City Council meetings to 4:30 p.m.
Environmental Status: None.
Strategic Plan Goal: Not applicable.
Attachment:
1. Resolution No. 2013-01, "A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach
Changing the Time of City Council Meetings."
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ATTACHMENT #1
Item 2. - 2 HB -34-
RESOLUTION NO. 2013-01
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH CHANGING THE TIME OF
REGULARLY SCHEDULED CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS
WHEREAS, Resolution No. 2004-95, sets the starting time for regularly scheduled City
Council meetings to be 4:00 p.m.; and
The City Council has made a request to adjust the starting time of the regularly scheduled
meeting to 4:30 p.m., with the business and public comments portion of the meeting to
commence at 6:00 p.m.,
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does hereby
resolve as follows:
1. Regularly scheduled City Council meetings shall be held at the hour of 4:30 p.m.,
in Room B-8 of the Civic Center, with the business and public comments portion of the meeting
to begin at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers.
2. No meeting shall continue beyond 11:00 p.m. without a majority vote of the City
Council.
3. All portions of Resolution No. 2004-95 in conflict herewith are repealed.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 22nd day of January 20_13
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REVI4 1 CANDAPPROVED:
City anger
Mayor
AS TO FORM:
INITIATED AND APPROVED:
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Res. No. 2013-01
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, JOAN L. FLYNN the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of the City of
Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said City, do hereby
certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach is seven; that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted
by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the members of said City Council
at a Regular meeting thereof held on January 22, 2013 by the following vote:
AYES: Sullivan, Harper, Boardman ,Carchio, Katapodis
NOES: None
ABSENT: Hardy, Shaw
ABSTAIN: None
C ty Clerk and ex-offici lerk of the
City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, California