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HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 1488t Ordinance No. 1488 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD AMENDING ORDINANCES 968 AND 1081 OF THE LYNWOOD CITY CODE RELATING TO THE TRAFFIC, PARKING, AND SAFETY COMMISSION The City Council of the City of Lynwood hereby does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. The Lynwood City Code is amended to read as follows: SEC. 7-7.5 Established; Composition; Appointment and Removal of Members; Terms of Office; Compensation. a. There is hereby established an advisory Traffic, Parking, and Safety Commission. The Commission shall consist of seven (7) persons appointed by the City Council who shall be residents of the City not holding a position for which compensation is paid by the City. Four (4) of the members of the commission first appointed by the City Council shall serve for terms of four (4) years each, and the remaining three (3) members of the Commission first appointed by the City Council shall serve a term of two (2) years. b. The determination as to which of the members serves an initial term of two (2) years shall be by lots drawn by them. Thereafter, all members shall be appointed for terms of four (4) years; provided, however, the City Council. may remove any member from the Commission at any time and without cause. The City Council shall fill any vacancy occurring in the commission by appointment for the remainder of the term. SECTION 2. Powers and Duties. 1. With respect to parking matters, the Commission shall suggest the most practical means for coordinating the activities of all officers and agencies of the City having authority with respect to the administration and/or enforcement of parking regulations; stimulate and assist in the preparation and publication of reports concerning parking; receive complaints having to do with parking matters; and recommend to the City Council and to the City Engineer, Law Enforcement Officials, and other City officials ways and means of improving parking conditions and the administration and enforcement of parking regulations. 2. With respect to traffic matters, the Commission shall suggest the most practical means for coordinating the activities of all officers and agencies of the City having authority with respect to the administration and/or enforcement of traffic regulations; stimulate and assist in the preparation and publication of traffic reports; receive complaints having to do with traffic matters; and recommend to the City Council, the City Engineer, Law Enforcement Officials and other City officials ways and means of improving traffic conditions and the administration and enforcement of traffic regulations. 3. With respect to safety matters, the Commission shall provide a forum for the receipt of information, recommendations, and complaints from the community relating to emergency preparedness. The Commission shall recommend to the City Council, plans, programs, procedures, policies and proposed legislation for the purpose of promoting, enhancing, and improving emergency preparedness in the community. The Commission shall cooperate with City departments and other public agencies in promoting all aspects of emergency preparedness, and, if so authorized by the City Council, shall organize workshops relating to emergency preparedness. T o SECTION 3. Compensation of Members. 1. There is hereby established an advisory Traffic, Parking, and Safety Commission consisting of seven members who shall serve with such compensation as the City Council may from time to time provide and who may be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in connection with the official business of the commission to the extent authorized by the City Council. SECTION 4. Severability. 1. !f any section, subsections, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance , or the application thereof to any person or place, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance or its application to other persons or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance, and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions, or the application thereof to any person or place, be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 5. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to the passage of this ordinance and to cause the same to be published once in the Lynwood Press/Wave, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Lynwood. First recta at a;egular meeti~~g of the City Coun;,il of said City heid on the 25th day of March 1999, and finally ordered published at a regular meeting of said Council -held on the 6th day of Apri 1 , 1 ggg. PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 6th day of April, 1999. ~-- RICARCSO SANCHEZ, MAY ATTEST: ANDREA L. HOOPER, CITY CLERK APPROVED AS TO FORM: ~ (~ i~~ S AN THEVE ATTORNEY CLERK200 I t STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) _ SS. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) D ~ ~ I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the Lynwood City Council do hereby certify that - the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 1488 on file in my office and that said ordinance was adopted on the 6th may. of Apri 1 , 19 99 ,and passed by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEMBER BYRD, REA, REYES, RICHARDS, SANCHEZ NONE NOES: ABSENT: NONE ~~~~ i Crty Clerk, City of Lynwood . t_,.