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STAFF REPORT CITY CLERK
File # 110-30
CITY COUNCIL
DATE:October 20, 2015
TO:
Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM:
Christopher L. Foss, City Manager
SUBJECT:
Human Services Commission Vacancy
Prepared by Caroline P. Soto, City Clerk/Records Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The City Council will discuss options for filling a recent, unanticipated vacancy on the Human
Services Commission. That term has an ending date of December 2018.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
None.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council discuss options for filling the unscheduled vacancy and
provide Staff direction on proceeding with the appointment process.
Reviewed By
Assistant City Manager
DESCRIPTION:
A member of the Human Services Commission, Melissa Sladden, resigned from the Human
Services Commission on October 13, 2015, leaving an unscheduled vacancy. Ms. Sladden’s
term would have ended in December 2018. California Government Code Section 54974. (a)
states, “Whenever an unscheduled vacancy occurs in any board, commission, or committee for
which the legislative body has the appointing power, whether due to resignation, death,
termination, or other causes, a special vacancy notice shall be posted in the office of the clerk of
the local agency, the library designated pursuant to Section 5473, and in other places as
directed by the legislative body, not earlier than 20 days before or not later than 20 days after
the vacancy occurs. Final appointment to the board, commission or committee shall not be
made by the legislative body for at least 10 working days after the posting of the notice in the
clerk’s office.”
The City Clerk’s Office has not posted the vacancy as of yet, pending discussion and direction
by the City Council. Options for the City Council’s consideration are:
ITEM NO. 8.5
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Direct Staff to post the unscheduled vacancy no later than 20 days after the vacancy
occurred and request applications, for the Mayor’s consideration, from interested Dublin
citizens for consideration of filling the term ending December 2018; or
Direct Staff to post the unscheduled vacancy no later than 20 days after the vacancy
occurred and have the Mayor recommend from the applications submitted by citizens in
November 2014, for the term ending December 2018. Those applicants include:
Bruce Gekko
Thanh Hoang
Antonio Ticsay
Rajan Patel
Anjing Wang
Provide alternate direction to Staff, in conformance with the Government Code 54974, to
fill the unscheduled vacancy on the Human Services Commission.
For any of the above options, the appointment could be made at the November 3, 2015 Regular
City Council meeting. The next regularly scheduled Human Services Commission meeting is
scheduled for November 19, 2015.
NOTICING REQUIREMENTS/PUBLIC OUTREACH:
None.
ATTACHMENTS:
1. CA Government Code Section 54974 regarding Unscheduled
Vacancies
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GOVERNMENT CODE
SECTION 54974
54974. (a) Whenever an unscheduled vacancy occurs in any board,
commission, or committee for which the legislative body has the
appointing power, whether due to resignation, death, termination, or
other causes, a special vacancy notice shall be posted in the office
of the clerk of the local agency, the library designated pursuant to
Section 54973, and in other places as directed by the legislative
body, not earlier than 20 days before or not later than 20 days after
the vacancy occurs. Final appointment to the board, commission, or
committee shall not be made by the legislative body for at least 10
working days after the posting of the notice in the clerk's office.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the legislative body may, if
it finds that an emergency exists, fill the unscheduled vacancy
immediately. A person appointed to fill the vacancy shall serve only
on an acting basis until the final appointment is made pursuant to
this section.