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AGENDA TITLE: Ordinance No. 1810 Entitled, "An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Lodi
Amending Lodi Municipal Code Section 2.08.020 Relating to City Council Salaries
as Authorized by Government Code Section 36516 (a) (3)"
MEETING DATE: April 16,2008
PREPARED BY: City Clerk
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Motion waiving reading in full and (following reading by title)
adopting the attached Ordinance No. 1810.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Ordinance No. 1810 entitled, "An Ordinance of the City Council of
the City of Lodi Amending Lodi Municipal Code Section 2.08.020
Relating to City Council Salaries as Authorized by Government
Code Section 36516 (a) (3)," was introduced at the regular City
Council meeting of April 2, 2008.
ADOPTION: With the exception of urgency ordinances, no ordinance may be passed within five days of
its introduction. Two readings are therefore required— one to introduce and a second to adopt the
ordinance. Ordinances may only be passed at a regular meeting or at an adjourned regular meeting;
except for urgency ordinances, ordinances may not be passed at a special meeting. Id. All ordinances
must be read in full either at the time of introduction or at the time of passage, unless a regular motion
waiving further reading is adopted by a majority of all council persons present. Cal. Gov't Code§ 36934.
Ordinances take effect 30 days after their final passage. Cal. Gov't Code§ 36932
This ordinance has been approved as to form by the City Attorney.
FISCAL IMPACT:
FUNDING AVAILABLE:
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ORDINANCE NO. 1810
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF LODI AMENDING LODI MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTION 2.08.020 RELATING TO CITY
COUNCIL SALARIES AS AUTHORIZED BY
GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 36516 (a) (3)
WHEREAS, Government Code Section 36516 (a) (3) sets forth that a city council
may enact an ordinance providing that each member of the city council receive a salary
up to and including five hundred dollars ($500) per month in cities over 50,000 up to and
including 75,000 in population; and
WHEREAS, Government Code Section 36516 (c) states that compensation of
council members may be increased beyond the amount by an ordinance or by an
amendment to an ordinance but the amount of the increase may not exceed an amount
equal to five percent (5%) for each calendar year from the operative date of the last
adjustment of the salary in effect when the ordinance or amendment is enacted. No
salary ordinance shall be enacted or amended which provides for automatic future
increases in salary.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE LODI CITY COUNCIL:
SECTION 1. Lodi Municipal Code Section 2.08.020 relating to City Council salaries is
hereby amended as authorized by Government Code Section 36516 (a) (3) to read as
follows:
Each member of the council of the city shall receive, as salary, the sum of eight
hundred sixty dollars per month, as prescribed in Government Code Section
36516 (a) (3) in cities over fifty thousand in population, which shall be effective
December 3, 2008, and shall be payable from and after the operative date of the
ordinance codified in this chapter at the same time and in the same manner as
the salaries are paid to other officers and employees of the city.
SECTION 2. No Mandatow Duty of Care. This ordinance is not intended to and shall
not be construed or given effect in a manner which imposes upon the City, or any officer
or employee thereof, a mandatory duty of care towards persons or property within the
City or outside of the City so as to provide a basis of civil liability for damages, except as
otherwise imposed by law.
SECTION 3. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof to
any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other
provisions or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid
provision or application. To this end, the provisions of this ordinance are severable. The
City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance irrespective of
the invalidity of any particular portion thereof.
SECTION 4. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed
insofar as such conflict may exist.
SECTION 5. This ordinance shall be published onetime in the "Lodi News Sentinel," a
daily newspaperof general circulation printed and published in the City of Lodi, and shall
be in force and take effect December 3,2008.
Approved this le day of April, 2008
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( JOANNE MOUNCE
Mayor
Attest-
RPJJOHL
City Clerk
State of California
County of San Joaquin, ss.
I, Randi Johl, City Clerk of the City of Lodi, do hereby certify that Ordinance
No. 1810 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Lodi held
April 2, 2008, and was thereafter passed, adopted, and ordered to print at a regular
meeting of said Council held April 16, 2008, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — Hansen, Hitchcock, Johnson, and Katzakian
NOES; COUNCIL MEMBERS — Mayor Mounce
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS— None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS— None
further certify that Ordinance No. 1810 was approved and signed by the Mayor on the
date of its passage and the same has been publishe rsuant to law.
RA
City Clerk
Approved .
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