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City Council Meeting 5-8-90
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1520(CCS)
(city council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTIONS 2931 AND 2932 AND ADDING SECTION 2937 TO THE
SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE SANTA
MONICA ARTS COMMISSION
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Santa Monica Municipal Code section 2931 is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 2931.
Creation of Arts
Commission.
(a) Pursuant to Section 1000 of the
City Charter, an Arts Commission is hereby
created. The Commission shall consist of
seventeen (17) members. A majority of the
members in office at any time shall
constitute a quorum. The members shall be
appointed by the city Council. Except as
otherwise provided in this Chapter, the
Commission and commissioners shall be
subj ect to all the terms of Article X of
the City Charter setting forth procedures
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for appointment of commissioners, terms,
and meetings.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in
section 2937, all Commissioners shall
reside or work in the City and shall be
actively invol ved in the arts. From and
after April 10, 1990, any person appointed
as a Commissioner must be a Director of
the Santa Monica Arts Foundation. The
Commission shall represent the diversity
of the community and shall include
minorities and working artists in the
following disciplines:
(1) Performing arts such as
drama, music, and dance.
(2) Visual arts such as
painting, sculpture, photography,
graphics, video art, and applied art.
(3) Communications arts such
as film, television, and radio.
(4) Literary arts such as
literature, poetry, and journalism.
commissioners may represent one or
more of the disciplines indicated above.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in
Section 2937, no Commissioner shall serve
more than two (2) full consecutive terms.
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SECTION 2. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2932 is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 2932. staff. The
Commission shall have a staff the amount
and type of which shall be determined by
the City Council during the regular city
budget process. The staff shall report
directly to the Director of Cultural and
Recreation Services. In hiring staff, the
Director of Cultural and Recreation
Services shall consult with the
Commission. Decision-making matters of
administrative concern shall rest with the
Director of Cultural and Recreation
Services.
SECTION 3. Section 2937 is added to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to read as follows:
SECTION 2937. Transition
Provisions.
(a) The requirement that a
Commissioner work or reside in the city of
Santa Monica shall not apply to any person
who was a director of the Santa Monica
Arts Foundation on April 10, 1990.
(b) Any person who was a director
of the Santa Monica Arts Foundation as of
April 10, 1990, but not a member of the
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commission on such date, shall have the
length of his or her initial term on the
Commission determined as follows:
Foundation directors shall draw lots of
one, two, three, and four year initial
terms. Any Foundation director drawing a
lot for a one, two, or three year initial
term shall be eligible to serve two
additional four year terms. Any
Foundation director drawing a lot for a
four year initial term shall be eligible
to serve one additional four year term.
SECTION 4. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of
this Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no
further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to affect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 5. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid
or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this ordinance, and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
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SECTION 6. The Mayor shall sign and the city Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effective after 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS U
City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 8th day of May, 1990.
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Mayo&:-
I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1520(CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City
Council on the lst day of May 1990; that the said ordinance was
thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the City Council on the
8th day of May 1990 by the following Council vote:
Ayes:
Councilmembers:
Abdo, Genser, Jennings, Reed,
Mayor Zane
Noes: Councilmembers:
None
Abstain: Councilmembers:
None
Absent: Councilmembers:
Finkel, Katz
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