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FOR CITY CLERK ONLY
Council Meeting: November 6, 2023
Disposition: Waived further reading of the Ordinance and referred to it by title only, and
introduced the Ordinance
Agenda Item No: 6.a
Meeting Date: November 6, 2023
SAN RAFAEL CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
Department: City Clerk’s Office
Prepared by: Lindsay Lara, City Clerk City Manager Approval: ______________
TOPIC: CITY COUNCIL MEETING COMMENCEMENT TIME
SUBJECT: INTRODUCTION OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL CITY COUNCIL
AMENDING SECTION 2.04.010 OF THE SAN RAFAEL MUNICIPAL CODE
CONCERNING REGULAR MEETINGS
RECOMMENDATION:
Waive further reading of the Ordinance and introduce an Ordinance of the City of San Rafael City Council
Amending Section 2.04.010 of the San Rafael Municipal Code (SRMC) Concerning Regular Meetings
and refer to it by title only.
BACKGROUND:
The City’s Charter authorizes the City Council to establish, by ordinance, the time and place for its
meetings. Section 2.04.010 of the SRMC presently provides that the Council's regular meetings shall be
held on the first and third Mondays of each month, starting at 7:00 p.m.
ANALYSIS:
The attached ordinance would amend the SRMC section 2.04.010 to change the commencement time
for regular City Council meetings from 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
In recent years, the commencement time of many Board, Commission, and Committee (BCC) meetings
has been changed from 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., and staff recommends changing the City Council regular
meeting schedule time to 6:00 p.m. Often times City Council meetings can be conducted late into the
evening, requiring our community members to stay at City Hall until as late as 11:00 p.m. to provide public
comments on agenda items that are later on the agenda.
ATTACHMENTS:
1.Ordinance
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL CITY COUNCIL AMENDING
SECTION 2.04.010 OF THE SAN RAFAEL MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING
REGULAR MEETINGS
WHEREAS, as authorized by Article VII, Section 3 of the Charter of the City of San Rafael,
the City Council has provided in San Rafael Municipal Code, Chapter 2.04, for the time
and place of its meetings; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to San Rafael Municipal Code Section 2.04.010, regular meetings
of the City Council currently convene on the first and third Mondays of the month at the
hour of 7:00 p.m.; and
WHEREAS, the time of commencement of the meetings of the many Boards,
Commissions and Committees have been changed to 6:00 p.m., and the City Council
now finds that it would be in the best interests of the City for the City Council also to
commence its regular meetings at 6:00 p.m., so as to facilitate the public's participation
therein.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
DIVISION 1. Section 2.04.10 of Chapter 2.04 of the Municipal Code of the City of San
Rafael is hereby amended as follows (additions are shown in underline and deletions
in strikethrough):
2.04.010 - Regular meetings.
The regular meetings of the council of the City of San Rafael, County of Marin, State
of California, shall be held on the first and third Monday of each month at the regular
place of meeting specified in this section. Where the first or third Monday falls upon
either New Year's Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day,
Veteran's Day or Christmas Day a city holiday, the council shall meet on the Tuesday
following the holiday. Regular meetings shall convene at the hour of seven six p.m.
(76:00 p.m.). The regular meetings may be adjourned from time to time as may be
determined by the council for the purpose of completing the business and duties of
the council, and may be adjourned to any other date and time.
All regular meetings of the council shall be held at the city hall situated on the northerly
side of Fifth Avenue between C Street and E Street, and the meetings shall be held in
the general assembly room in the building set apart for the meetings of the council.
DIVISION 2.
All former ordinances or parts thereof conflicting or inconsistent with the
provisions of this Ordinance or the Codes hereby adopted are hereby repealed.
DIVISION 3.
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for
any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portion of this Ordinance. The City Council of the City of San Rafael hereby declares
that it would have adopted the Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence,
clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections,
subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases shall be declared invalid.
DIVISION 4.
The City Council finds that adoption of this Ordinance is exempt from the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to 14 CCR Section
15061(b)(3), since it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the
adoption of this Ordinance may have a significant effect on the environment.
DIVISION 5.
This Ordinance shall be published once, in full or in summary form, before its
final passage, in a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in the City
of San Rafael and shall be in full force and effect 30 days after its adoption. If published
in summary form, the summary shall also be published within fifteen (15) days after the
adoption, together with the names of those Council members voting for or against same,
in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the City of San Rafael,
County of Marin, State of California.
Within 15 days after adoption, the City Clerk shall also post in the office of the
City Clerk, a certified copy of the full text of this Ordinance along with the names of
those Councilmembers voting for and against the Ordinance.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE was first read and introduced at a regular meeting of the
San Rafael City Council on the 6th day of November 2023, and was passed and adopted at a
regular meeting of the San Rafael City Council on the 20th day of November 2023 by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
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Kate Colin, Mayor
Attest:
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LINDSAY LARA, City Clerk