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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1030ORDINANCE NO, 10; O ORDINANCE AMENDING THE BURLINGAME MUNICIPAL CODE BY REPEALING CHAPTERS 3.22 and 3.24 AND ADDING NEW CHAPTER 3.22, TRAFFIC, SAFETY AND PARKING COMMISSION The City Council of the City of Burlingame does ordain as follows; Section L Chapters 3.22 and 3.24 of the Burlingame Municipal Code are hereby repealed, Section 2. Chapter 3.22 of the Burlingame Municipal Code is ' hereby added, to read as follows; "Chapter 3.22 TRAFFIC, SAFETY AND PARKING i COMMISSION I 3.22.010 Organization - Terms of members - Compensation. ' There shall be a commission of traffic, safety and parking in the city consisting of seven members, appointed by the mayor, subject to confirmation of the city council; the members thereof shall be qualified electors of the city, and their terra of office l _ shall be for a period of three years and until their successors are appointed and qualified. The members shall serve without compensation, but all necessary expenses incurred by them while ,acting in their official capacities shall be paid by appropriate ! council action. 3.22. 020 Removal of appointed members - Filling vacancies, i Any member of the commission may be removed from office, for cause, prior to the expiration of his term by the affirmative vote of not less than three-fifths of all of the members of the city council. Vacancies shall befilled by appointment by the "mayor with the approval of the council, and shall be for the unexpired portion of the term of office vacated. 3.22.030 Meetings - Officers. The commission shall hold regular meetings at least once a month and such other meetings as may be necessary or expedient. A. majority of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of transacting the business of the commission. The commis- sion shall elect a chairman and secretary, both of whom shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. . 3. 22. 040 Record of proceedings kept by secretary - Filing. The secretary of the commission shall keep a record of all proceedings, resolutions, findings, determinations, and trans- actians of the commission, which records shall be a public record, and a copy of which record shall be filed with the city clerk as clerk of Lhe city council. 3.22.050 powers and duties. The commission shall have the power, and it shall be the duty of the commission, in i a purely advisory capacity, to make recommendations to the city council and to advise the council in matters pertaining to traffic, safety and the parking of motor vehicles generally; to the parking of motor vehicles on public streets and on public parking lots and areas; to the establishment of metered zones and the maintenance of free or metered parking spaces; to the rates per hour per space to be paid for the metered parking spaces; to the rental of off-street parking spaces; to thepermis- Bible time for parking in any parking space; to the design and improvement of, including lighting of, -or traffice flow on, ''any public streets or parking lot; to the posting of signs giving I notice of parking regulations; to the landscaping of any parking lot; and to the purchase and installation ofparking meters. " Section 3. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this ordinance, those persons who are the members of the Public Health and Safety Commission or the Parking Commission of the City of Burlingame s at the time of the adoption of this ordinance shall he the first members i of the Traffic, Safety and Parking Commission. They may be reappointed for additional terms of three years until suchtime as they resign, are ail removed_ by the Council, or their positions otherwise become vacant. I i At such time as the number of members of the commission is reduced ', to seven memUers, the provisions of Section 3.22. 010 shall apply. Section 4. This ordinance shall be published as required by law. Mayox -- I HERBERT K. WHITE, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 20th day of January, 1975, and adopted thereafter at a regular meeting of the City Countil held on the 3 day of February 1975, AYF_,S: COUNCILMEN: Aanstrup—Crosby—Cusick.—Harrison— PIangini NOES: COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT: COUNCILMEN; -lone - 3 - Ci