BE IT ORDAINED BY THE REDWOOD LEGISLATIVE BRANCH HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
SECTION 1: The “Redwood City Charter” Shall be Amended.
SECTION 2: At the current point in time, there is no definition of the Deputy Mayor and his term or authority.
SECTION 3: In the “Redwood City Charter”, a new article is to be created and shall state:
"1 Executive Authority of the Deputy Mayor
The executive powers of the City shall be vested within the Deputy Mayor, and may be exercised either personally or through the agencies representing the municipality of the City; in their departments, under the Mayor’s general supervision and control. ; With permission from the Mayor.
2 Deputy Mayor’s Authority Generally
The Deputy Mayor’s executive authority shall include the powers to organize the City into various departments in order to promote the effective and orderly management of the City. This authority includes the power to hire and discharge employees in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and contracts with permission from the Mayor.
3 Term
The Deputy Mayor shall hold office for the term of four(4) months from the first day, following the Deputy Mayor’s Election or appointment, unless sooner removed or upon the end of the Mayor’s term, and until a successor is elected or qualified.
4 Deputy Mayor’s Authority to Veto Action of the City Council
Every ordinance, order, resolution, or vote of the City Council, except such as relates to its own inner-affairs; to its own officers or employees; to the election or duties of the City Attorney, or City Clerk; to the removal of the Mayor or Deputy Mayor; or to the declaration of a vacancy within the office of the Mayor, shall be presented to the Deputy Mayor for approval.
If not approved, the Deputy Mayor shall return it to the Council-Docket; at the next session of the Redwood City Council, and the City Council shall cause such objections to be entered at large upon its journal, and shall proceed to reconsider the same. If upon such reconsideration, it shall be passed by a two-thirds(⅔) majority-vote unanimously by all five(5) members of the City Council, it shall have the same effect as if signed by the Deputy Mayor.
In case of vacancy in the Office of the Redwood City Deputy Mayor, when such ordinance, order, resolution or vote is finally passed, it shall go into effect without approval but must be passed by a roll call of a majority of all members; two-thirds(⅔) majority-vote of all members of the Council.
5 Deputy Mayor’s Authority as to Appropriation and Expenditure
Whenever any ordinance, resolution, or vote of the City Council involved an appropriation or expenditure of money, the Deputy Mayor may approve it as a whole, or the Deputy Mayor may approve or disapprove specific items thereof; and the portions approved shall then be in force in like manner as if no part thereof had been disapproved, and the items disapproved shall thereupon take the course herein provided for orders and ordinances disapproved as a whole.
6 Removal of the Deputy Mayor
The Deputy Mayor may be removed from Public Office by the City Council for official misconduct or neglect of duty. At any session of the Redwood City Council, it shall be in order for any members thereof to give written notice, seconded in writing by a two-thirds(⅔) majority-vote of at least all of the members of the Redwood City Council, of intention to move, at the next session thereof, occurring within not less than ten(10) days, a resolution that the Deputy Mayor be removed from office.
Such notice shall specify as particularly as possible the acts of misconduct, or the instances of neglect of duty complained of, shall be entered by the City Clerk in the minutes of the City Council, and the City Clerk shall within two(2) days hand-out a copy to the Deputy Mayor, and every member of the Redwood City Council.
At the next session of the Redwood City Council, the City Council shall vote on the resolution by roll call. If the resolution receives the affirmative vote of three-fourths(¾) of all members of the City-Council, it shall upon the service of a copy thereof upon the Deputy Mayor; take effect, and the Office of the City of Redwood Deputy Mayor shall thereupon be vacant.
7 Mayor’s Permission to hold Public Office
During the Deputy Mayor’s term of office, the Deputy Mayor shall be entitled to holding their position, as well as any other jobs that the Firestone State Legislature allows them to; considering the City of Redwood Deputy Mayor is a secondary job; defined by the State of Firestone Legislature. "
SECTION 4: This legislation shall go into effect immediately upon passing the Redwood City Council
Respectfully submitted to the City of Redwood City Council,
Chief-Sponsor(s):
Alderman Chasep01
Co-Sponsor(s):
Redwood City Mayor XanderModel