Ordinance No. 2022-01 | Consolidating BPC into Planning and P&R Commission | Adopted 01/24/2022
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ORDINANCE NO. 2022-01
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF GILROY CONSOLIDATING THE BICYCLE
PEDESTRIAN COMMISSION AND PLACING ITS
ASSOCIATED COMMISSION FUNCTIONS FOR
INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
REVIEW UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE PLANNING
COMMISSION, AND THE ASSOCIATED COMMISSION
FUNCTIONS FOR EDUCATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT
ACTIVITIES UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE PARKS
AND RECREATION COMMISSION.
WHEREAS, the City of Gilroy currently has a total of thirteen (13) boards, commissions
and committees, each requiring extensive staff support, whether or not the body has a full
membership, business to conduct, or is able to achieve a quorum for its meetings; and
WHEREAS, the Bicycle Pedestrian Commission is one of the City’s Commissions which
are not required pursuant to the Gilroy City Charter; and
WHEREAS, City Council initiated a future Council agenda item on September 13, 2021
for an agenda item to staff to create a more efficient and effective structure for the City’s boards
and commissions; and
WHEREAS, on November 15, 2021, staff presented a report with options that had been
developed as of that time. At that meeting, Council directed staff to proceed with the full streamline
option of consolidating the City’s boards, committees and commissions, and return to Council on
December 13th with an agenda item to adopt the consolidation; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to consolidate the Bicycle Pedestrian Commission
with the duties being consolidated with either the Planning or Parks and Recreation Commissions,
based on the subject matter jurisdiction.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS.
SECTION I
The Bicycle Pedestrian Commission (Commission) is scheduled to be consolidated.
Ordinances Nos. 2009-03 and 2018-14, which established the Commission will be repealed in their
entirety and no longer in effect after June 30, 2022, or such earlier time as determined by the
Commission.
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SECTION II
City staff are to wind down and transfer the activities of this Commission in an expeditious
manner which shall be completed no later than June 30, 2022, and as of the date of such transfer,
the terms of all sitting Commissioners shall come to an end. The functions and duties shall be
transferred to the Planning Commission and Parks and Recreation Commission, in a manner to
maximize efficiency and effectiveness within the associated subject matter jurisdiction of each
Commission.
SECTION III
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be
invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of
this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Gilroy hereby declares that it would have passed
and adopted this ordinance, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases
may be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION IV
This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its adoption. The City Clerk is hereby
directed to publish this Ordinance or a summary thereof pursuant to Government Code Section
36933.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY this 24th
day of January, 2022 by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: ARMENDARIZ, BRACCO, LEROE-
MUÑOZ, MARQUES, TOVAR,
BLANKLEY
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: NONE
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: HILTON
APPROVED:
Marie Blankley, Mayor
ATTEST:
Thai Nam Pham, City Clerk
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CERTIFICATE OF THE CLERK
I, THAI NAM PHAM, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy, do hereby certify that the attached
Ordinance No. 2022-01 is an original ordinance, or true and correct copy of a city Ordinance,
duly adopted by the Council of the City of Gilroy at a Regular Meeting of said held on Council
held Monday, January 24, 2022, at which meeting a quorum was present.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Official Seal of
the City of Gilroy this Monday, January 24, 2022.
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Thai Nam Pham, CMC, CPMC
City Clerk of the City of Gilroy
(Seal)
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