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RESOLUTION NO. 4 4 8 4
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AUBURN, WASHINGTON, AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 4429
PASSED DECEMBER 15, 2008, RELATING TO THE STANDING
COMMITTEES OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AUBURN
WHEREAS, on December 15, 2008, the Auburn City Council adopted
Resolution No. 4429 designating the members, powers, duties and meeting times
and days of all standing committees of the City Council of the City of Auburn; and
WHEREAS, modifications to the scope of authority for the Municipal Services
Committee and Planning and Community Development Committee have been
recommended to streamline functions of the Committees.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUBURN, WASHINGTON, IN A
REGULAR MEETING DULY ASSEMBLED, HEREWITH RESOLVES AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 2 of Resolution No. 4429 relating to the designation of
Standing Committee members, powers and duties is amended as follows:
A. PUBLIC WORKS:
RICH WAGNER (Chair), GENE CERINO (Vice Chair), and SUE
SINGER (member).
SCOPE: Makes recommendations to the City Council as a
whole on policies relating to water and sanitary
sewer utilities, storm drainage, streets and policy
matters involving construction, engineering, right-
of-way use, street vacation and equipment
maintenance and operations. This Committee will
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coordinate equipment rental and utility matters with
the Finance Committee.
B. FINANCE:
NANCY BACKUS (Chair), BILL PELOZA (Vice Chair), and LYNN
NORMAN (member).
SCOPE: In addition to the normal monitoring of the financial
expenditures of the approved budget, this
Committee will make recommendations to the City
Council as a whole on policies relating to human
resources, municipal court, legal, information
services, and City real property transactions
including sale, lease, acquisition, and donations.
This committee will coordinate property
transactions with other appropriate Council
Committees.
C. PLANNING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT:
LYNN NORMAN (Chair), NANCY BACKUS (Vice Chair), and RICH
WAGNER (member).
SCOPE: Makes recommendations to the City Council as a
whole on policies relating to land use planning and
zoning, code enforcement, annexation, building
permits, human services, parks aand
reGreat+eR lannin , arts, museum, snninr ,.on+or,
, communications, economic
development, community services, theater, and
King County Library liaison.
D. MUNICIPAL SERVICES:
GENE CERINO (Chair), BILL PELOZA (Vice Chair), and VIRGINIA
HAUGEN (member).
SCOPE: Makes recommendations to the City Council as a
whole on policies relating to police, animal control,
maintenance of all public buildings, emergency
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planning, cable TV, telecommunications, solid
I waste, airport, parks and recreation pro rq ams,
museum, seniar center, Mary Olson Farm, golf
course, and cemetery.
E. COMMUNITY CENTER COMMITTEE
RICH WAGNER (Chair), SUE SINGER (Vice Chair), LYNN NORMAN
(Member)
SCOPE: Makes recommendations to the City Council as a
whole on policies relating to development and
ongoing use of the Community Center and Teen
Center facilities at Les Gove Community Campus.
F. DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
LYNN NORMAN (Chair), SUE SINGER (Vice Chair), GENE CERINO
(Member)
SCOPE: Makes recommendations to the City Council as a
whole on policies relating to development in the
Downtown Urban Core, Farmers Market,
downtown development agreements and operating
policies.
G. COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES:
Membership of the Council Committee on Committees shall consist of
three Councilmembers having the longest tenure on the City Council.
Longest tenure is to be calculated as the total length of consecutive
service as a Councilmember. The Councilmember with the longest
tenure shall automatically be the Chair of the Council Committee on
Committees. In the event of two or more members have equal tenure,
the Chair and members of the Council Committee on Committees shall
be selected on the basis of the largest number of votes received at the
most recent general election(s) in which the Councilmembers were
respectively elected. It is provided, however, that Councilmembers
whose term of office will expire prior to or during the first meeting of a
new City Council and who have not been re-elected or appointed to
another term of office extending beyond the first meeting of a new City
Council shall not serve on the new Council Committee on Committees
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or be allowed to vote on the approval of the membership of the new
committees.
The function of the Council Committee on Committees is to supervise
the formation and membership of all standing committees of the City
Council. The Council Committee on Committees shall, subject to the
approval of a majority of the entire City Council, designate all of the
standing committees of the City Council. In addition, the Council
Committee on Committees shall, biennially at the first meeting of a new
City Council, or periodically, submit a list of the proposed members of
all standing committees of the City Council for approval by a majority
vote of the entire City Council. The Council Committee on Committees
shall also recommend the Chair for each standing committee of the
City Council, which recommendations shall also be subject to approval
by a majority vote of the entire City Council. The membership of all
standing committees of the City Council shall consist exclusively of
Councilmembers. Each chair of any standing committee of the City
Council shall, in the absence of a quorum at a meeting of his/her
particular standing committee, have the authority to appoint a non-
member of the standing committee, from the City Council to that
standing committee for that meeting to create a quorum for that
meeting, or in the chair's absence the vice-chairman shall be able to
appoint another Councilmember to that particular committee in the
absence of a quorum. The function of the Council Committee on .
Committees is also to propose amendments to the Rules of Procedure
of the City Council to the full City Council, and to address issues
relating to the whole City Council and make recommendations for
action by the full City Council relative to such issues.
Section 2. The City Clerk is authorized and directed to incorporate the
changes in the committees' scope of authority and function in the City Council Rules
of Procedure.
Section 3. The Mayor is hereby authorized to implement such administrative
procedures as may be necessary to carry out the directives of this legislation.
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Section 4. This Resolution shall take effect and be in full force and effect
upon passage and signature hereon.
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DATED and SIGNED this ~ day of May, 2009.
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ATTEST:
PETER
B. LEWIS
MAYOR
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Danielle E. Daskam, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM: ~
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Dat-rrel B. Hei City At orne
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