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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAGENDA REPORT 2006 0118 CC REG ITEM 11A': "2 ..,"a4srT,.rip CUP.nnrE63+', Tprl EM ORDINANCE NO. 333 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 2.04.055, COMPENSATION, OF CHAPTER 2.04 CITY COUNCIL, TITLE 2, OF THE MOORPARK MUNICIPAL CODE WHEREAS, at its meeting of December 7, 2005, the City Council determined that an amendment to Section 2.04.055 of Chapter 2.04, Title 2, of the Moorpark Municipal Code is appropriate to revise City Council salary compensation and retirement benefits and directed that an ordinance be prepared. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Government Code Section 36516 establishes the salary ranges for City Councilmembers, and Government Code Sections 36516 and 53201 et seq. authorize the provision of retirement, health and welfare benefits to City Councilmembers. The City Council last set salaries in August 1990 through adoption of Ordinance No. 129, which established compensation at three hundred dollars ($300.00) per month. Ordinance No. 307, adopted in October 2004, authorized the provision of health and life insurance benefits to City Councilmembers. SECTION 2. Chapter 2.04, Title 2, Section 2.04.055, of the Moorpark Municipal Code is hereby revised in its entirety as follows: "2.04.055 Compensation and Benefits. The compensation of each city councilmember shall be three hundred dollars ($300.00) per month through December 31, 2006. Effective January 1, 2007, the compensation of each city councilmember shall be six hundred dollars ($600.00) per month. Effective January 1, 2005, all sitting councilmembers shall be entitled to the same health insurance and life insurance benefits afforded the city's competitive service employees as such benefits exist on January 1, 2005, and as such may be amended from time to time for the city's competitive service employees. Effective January 1, 2007, councilmembers will not be eligible for a cash -back payment in lieu of health insurance. Effective January 1, 2007, all sitting councilmembers shall be entitled to the same California Public Employees Retirement System (CaIPERS) benefits afforded the city's competitive service employees as such benefits exist on January 1, 2007, and as such may be amended from time to time for the city's competitive service employees." 000135 Ordinance No. 333 Page 2 SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more section, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, parts or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 4. This Ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days after its passage and adoption. SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance; shall enter the same in the book of original ordinances of said City; shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council at which the same is passed and adopted; and shall, within fifteen (15) days after the passage and adoption thereof, cause the same to be published once in the Moorpark Star, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, as defined in Section 6008 of the Government Code, for the City of Moorpark, and which is hereby designated for that purpose. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 18th day of January, 2006. Patrick Hunter, Mayor ATTEST: Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City Clerk 000136