Chapter 2.04
CITY COUNCIL*

Sections:

2.04.010    Meetings--Time.

2.04.020    Meetings--Place.

2.04.030    Compensation amount.

2.04.040    Compensation--For member filling vacancy.

2.04.050    Vacancies.

*    For the statutory provisions concerning city council meetings, see Gov. Code §§36805 et seq. and 54953 et seq.

2.04.010 Meetings--Time.

The city council shall meet in regular session the first and third Tuesdays of every month at the hour of seven p.m. and may adjourn from time to time as in their judgment may seem fit and proper.  (Ord. 1-06 §1, 2006:  Ord. 13-86 §2, 1986).

2.04.020 Meetings--Place.

The city council shall hold all of its regular meetings at the Coastside Community Center, located at 535 Kelly Avenue, Half Moon Bay, California, except those meetings for which the city council duly announces a different location.  (Ord. 2-86 §2(b), 1986).

2.04.030 Compensation amount.

Each councilman shall receive a salary of three hundred dollars per month on or about the last day of the month for which the services were performed.  (Ord. 1-87 §2, 1987).

2.04.040 Compensation--For member filling vacancy.

The compensation of a city councilman appointed or elected to fill a vacancy shall be the same as that payable to the member whose office was vacated.  (Ord. 3-73 §2, 1973).

2.04.050 Vacancies.

In accordance with California Government Code Section 36512:

A.    If a vacancy on the city council occurs, the city council shall, within thirty days from the commencement of the vacancy, either fill the vacancy by appointment or call a special election to fill the vacancy.

B.    A person appointed to fill a vacancy on the city council holds office only until the date of a special election which shall immediately be called to fill the remainder of the term.  The special election may be held on the date of the next regularly established election or regularly scheduled municipal election to be held throughout the city not less than one hundred fourteen days from the call of the special election.

C.    A person elected to fill a vacancy shall hold office for the unexpired term of the former incumbent.

D.    In the event that the next regularly established election date or election available for the call of a special election is on or after the election at which the vacated seat is already scheduled for regular election, the city council shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy and no special election shall be called.  The person appointed to fill the vacancy shall hold office for the unexpired term of the former incumbent.  (Ord. 3-06 §1, 2006).