Ordinance 2556WSS/naa
03/12/86
R: 03/21/86 2556
ORDINANCE NO.
FOLLOWS:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING ECC 1.05.010 TO PERMIT THE ABSENCES OF
MEMBERS OF ALL CITY BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND
COMMITTEES DUE TO EXTENDED VACATIONS AND FIXING
A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO ORDAIN AS
Section 1. Section 1.05.010 of the Edmonds City Code
relating to the required attendance of board, commission and
committee members is hereby amended to read as follows:
1.05.010 ATTENDANCE REQUIRED
A. In addition to being subject to removal for other
particularized grounds as set forth in applicable
provisions of the Edmonds City Code, members of all
City boards, commissions and committees (hereinafter
"members") except as set forth herein, shall be removed
from office, and the position deemed vacant as set
forth in Section 1.05.020C if such member attends less
than 70 percent of the regular meetings in any one
calendar year, and/or is not in attendance at three or
more consecutive regular meetings.
B. The chairperson of the particular board, commission or
committee may excuse any member from attendance at any
particular meeting or meetings for reasons that are (1)
work related, (2) due to illness or death in the
family, or (3) extended vacations in excess of two
weeks in length; provided, however, each such excused
absence shall be so noted by the chairperson at the
meeting from which the member is being excused and such
fact shall be recorded in the minutes along with the
reasons given for the excused absence by the member.
Excused absences shall not be counted for purposes of
removal from office, but only if so noted in the
minutes as set forth herein. In the absence of the
chairperson, the member acting in the chairperson's
behalf, such as vice -chairperson or pro tem, shall make
the determination of whether the absence is excused,
and announce the same for recording in the minutes of
the meeting from which the member is excused.
Section 2. This ordinance, being an administrative
action, is not subject to referendum and shall take effect five
(5) days after its publication, or publication of a summary
thereof consisting of its title, in the City's official
newspaper.
APPROVED: ( IMAYOR, LA Y AUGHTEN
ATTEST/AUTHENTICATED:
CIT CLERK, JACQUELINE PARRETT
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY:
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FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: March 24, 1986
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: April 1, 1986
PUBLISHED: April 6, 1986
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 11, 1986
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Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF WASHINGTON,
COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH, ss
The undersigned, being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says
that she is Principal Clerk of THE HERALD, a daily newspaper
printed and published in the City of Everett, County of Snohomish,
and State of Washington; that said newspaper is a newspaper of
general circulation in said County and State; that said newspaper
has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the Superior
Court of Snohomish County and that the notice ........................................
Ordinance I7a. 2556
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a printed copy of which is hereunto attached, was published in said
newspaper proper and not in supplement form, in the regular and
entire edition of said paper on the following days and times, namely:
April 4, 1986
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and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers
during all of said ,1%riod.
Principal Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me. this..................1
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Notary Public in and for the State of Washington,
residing at Everett, Snohomish County.
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