PURPOSE:   To consider an amendment to Chapter 2, Sec. 419 of the Burbank Municipal Code to increase the number of Members of the Transportation Commission from seven to eight.

On March 14, 2006, the City Council asked to consider an item pertaining to an amendment to Chapter 2, Sec. 419 of the Burbank Municipal Code to increase the number of the members of the Transportation Commission from seven (7) to eight (8) members. This matter arose due to a member of the Commission being called up to active military duty and then returning to the City.

A copy of the proposed amendment is attached.

RECOMMENDATION:

Staff recommends that the City Council introduce the attached Ordinance if it desires to approve of the aforementioned code amendment.

Attachment

                                                           ORDINANCE NO. _______          

                        AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURBANK AMENDING CHAPTER 2 OF THE BURBANK MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE COMPOSITION OF THE TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION.

                                                             City Attorney Synopsis

            This Ordinance increases the number of members on the Transportation Commission from seven to eight.

            THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURBANK DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

            1.         Section 2-419 of the Burbank Municipal Code is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 2-419.   Transportation Commission.

    (a)     ESTABLISHMENT AND COMPOSITION OF THE COMMISSION.

    There is hereby created a Transportation Commission consisting of eight (8) members.  The Council shall give consideration to appointing persons affiliated with the following groups:  small businesses, large businesses, transportation technology research and development organizations, homeowners, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, transportation management organizations or associations, and other special needs groups such as senior citizens, persons with disabilities and bicyclists.

    (b)     SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION.

    The Community Development Director shall serve as Secretary to the Commission.  The Secretary to the Commission shall not be a member of the Commission or vote on any matters coming before it, but such Secretary may be present during the Commission's deliberations and may participate in all debates and discussions.

    (c)     POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION.

    The Transportation Commission shall have the following powers and duties:

        (1)      To make recommendations to the City Council on transportation planning issues including but not limited to the Transportation Element of the General Plan and its components.

        (2)      To make recommendations on the expenditure of Proposition A funds, Proposition C funds, Air Quality funds and bonds, fees, loans and grants for the purpose of funding transportation improvements.

        (3)      To make recommendations on transportation plans, policies and programs, including, but not limited to pedestrian orientation, telecommuting, intermodal transportation centers and new technologies.

        (4)      To perform such advisory functions as are delegated to it by the provisions of this Code or other action of the Council.

    (e)     MEETING; QUORUM.

    The Transportation Commission shall hold a regular meeting at least once a month in the City Hall at a time to be designated by the Commission.  Special meetings may be called by the chair or four (4) members of the Commission.  When the time for any regular meeting of the Commission falls on a holiday, such meeting may be held at the discretion of the Commission or chair thereof at the same hour of the next succeeding day not a holiday or a regular meeting day of the Council or any other board or commission established pursuant to this division.  All regular meetings of the Commission shall be held in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, 275 East Olive Avenue, Burbank, California unless otherwise provided in the rules and regulations of the Commission.  A majority of the members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

            2.         This code amendment is not a project subject to the California Quality Environmental Act pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sec. 15378 (b)(1).

            3.         The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and cause the City Attorney Synopsis of this ordinance to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in the City of Burbank, California.

            4.         This Ordinance shall become effective at 12:01 a.m. of the thirty-first day after publication.

PASSED AND ADOPTED this ____ day of _____________________, 2006.

                                                                        ________________________________

                                                                        Jef Vander Borght

                                                                        Mayor of the City of Burbank

Attest:

________________________________

Margarita Campos, CMC, City Clerk

Approved as to Form and Legal Content:

Dennis A. Barlow, City Attorney

By:_____________________________

     Mary F. Riley, Sr. Asst. City Attorney

STATE OF CALIFORNIA                        )

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES     )           ss.

CITY OF BURBANK                   )

            I, Margarita Campos, CMC, City Clerk of the City of Burbank, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. ___________ was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Burbank at its regular meeting held on the ____ day of _______________________, 2006, by the following vote:

AYES:

NOES:

ABSENT:

            I further certify that said Synopsis was published as required by law in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Burbank, California on the ____ day of ____________________, 2006.

                                                                        ________________________________

                                                                        Margarita Campos, CMC, City Clerk

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