(Los Alamitos, 2/16/2012) The agendas and staff reports for Tuesday’s two City Council meetings are now up (links below), and they include some rather surprising changes in a proposed “Administrative Regulation Pertaining to Code of Conduct for City Council and Commissions.”
For starters, consider Item O., “City Council Agenda Preparation,” which not only requires a minimum approval of three votes for an item to be on the Council’s agenda, but also delays an item being agendized by a minimum of roughly three weeks from the original request! Read it for yourself:
The Agenda shall be prepared in accordance with the preparation procedure as directed by the City Manager. All proposed agenda items shall be approved for placement on the agenda by the City Manager, the Mayor or their designee before being placed on the agenda by the City Clerk.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any member of the City Council desires to place an item on the agenda other than an urgency item, the following
process will be followed:
• A Council Member may ask that the item be scheduled for
consideration
• At the next regularly scheduled Council meeting, the item will be
listed for consideration under “Other Business”
• The Council will review the listed “Other Business” in chronological
order, at which time the Council Member who requested the item will
make a presentation and state the importance of the item for the
community as a whole
• Items for consideration will need to receive three (3) votes of
approval before being scheduled for a subsequent Council Meeting
• Upon a three (3) vote approval, the City Manager will direct staff to
begin research and prepare relevant information for a subsequent
City Council meeting
• At a future scheduled Council meeting, a formal staff report will be
presented to the City Council for consideration
There’s lots more on the agenda, including the second reading on the changes to the trash law so that the Council no longer has to give the contract to the lowest qualified bidder, discussion of more Brown Act violations, a closed session at the beginning of the 7 p,m. session (before public comments!), and the mid year budget review at the 5 p.m. Special Meeting.
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The agenda for the main meeting
Click here for 100 pages of 7 p.m. regular meeting agenda, followed by staff reports and attachments. (Code of conduct begins on page 85)
At least we get the Monday Holiday to review it all!
As always, your reporting and comments are appreciated.
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Somebody thinks he’s the King and forgot that the Mayor is just like any other City Council member with just a very few limited responsibilities (and City Administration isn’t one of them).
Is there any way to eliminate the four un-needed seats on the council? It seems Los Alamitos only needs the mayor to do business.
I searched and also found that “several cities have adopted a code of conduct or a specific set of procedures for how the city council and commissions should conduct themselves”. Many cities also require the council and commission members to sign a document stating that they have read and understand the code of conduct. I wonder why this was not included? But none have anything similar to this new proposed process for adding an item to the agenda.
of course other councils don’t have the three council members to put an item on the agenda rule. Only an egomanic would do that, now let me think for a moment, could we have anyone like that on our council? Hummmmmm
Egomania is an obsessive preoccupation with one’s self and applies to someone who follows their own ungoverned impulses and is possessed by delusions of personal greatness and feels a lack of appreciation. Someone suffering from this extreme egocentric focus is an egomaniac. The condition is psychologically abnormal.
The term egomania is often used by laypersons in a pejorative fashion to describe an individual who is intolerably self-centred. The clinical condition that most resembles the popular conception of egomania is narcissistic personality disorder.
Remind you of anyone????