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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2009 11 23 Regular 602 Winter Springs Districting Commission Appointments 2010 CITY COMMISSION AGENDA Consent ITEM 602 Informational Public Hearing Regular X November 23, 2009 Meeting MGR. /DEPT Authorization REQUEST: The Community Development Department requests the City Commission make appointments to the 2010 Winter Springs Districting Commission PURPOSE: The purpose of this agenda item is request the Mayor and Members of the City Commission make appointments to the seven (7) member Districting Commission, pursuant to Section 4.02 of the Charter of the City of Winter Springs. APPLICABLE REGULATIONS: Section 4.02, City Charter CONSIDERATIONS: Section 4.02 of the City Charter requires the Mayor and Commissioners to appoint seven (7) districting commissioners from the registration of the last regular election, one (1) to be appointed by each City Commissioner from his/her respective commission district and two (2) appointed by the Mayor from the City at large, who shall comprise the Districting Commission. The Districting Commission is charged with filing a recommended plan for adjusting the City Commission boundaries consistent with the requirements set forth in Section 4.02 of the Charter (please see attachment A). The City Commission shall then consider the Districting Commission's report (and proposal to revise the City Commission District map) and adopt an ordinance to enact the revised map. The City Commission must adopt the redistricting ordinance at least 120 days before the next City election (November 2, 2010). This redistricting effort is to be undertaken every three (3) years and was last completed by the City of Winter Springs in 2007. J November 23, 2009 Regular Agenda Item 602 Page2of2 RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends the Mayor and City Commission appoint the seven (7) member Districting Commission, as set forth in the provisions of Section 4.02 of the City Charter. ATTACHMENTS: A. Section 4.02 of the City Charter CITY COMMISSION ACTION: CDD/November 18, 2009/11:48 AM ATTACHMENT A CHARTER. 4.02 ARTICLE I. CORPORATE NAME ARTICLE 1V. GOVERNING BODY Section 1.01. Corporate name. Section 4.01. Composition; qualification of members; and commission dis- The municipality hereby established shall be tricts. known as the City of Winter Springs, Florida. (a) Composition. There shall be a governing body composed of the mayor and five (5) commis- sion members elected by the voters of the city as ARTICLE U. TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES provided in this Charter for a term of four (4) years comm encing on the first Monday after the Section 2.01. Territorial Boundaries. first day of December of each year an election is held, and its members shall serve until their Editor's note —A metes and bounds description of the successors have taken office; provided such terms territorial boundaries of the City of Winter Springs, Florida is shall not exceed four (4) years. Not more than one presented in Appendix "A." (1) commission member shall reside in each of the five (5) commission districts provided for in Sec Section 2.02. Property added by annexation tion 4.02 (a) of this Charter. The mayor shall be since 1972. elected at large and may reside anywhere within the city. All property annexed to the City of Winter Springs, Florida, since the adoption of the Char- (b) Eligibility. Only qualified voters of the city ter of 1972. shall be eligible to hold the office of mayor or Editor's note —A listing of ordinances annexing property commissioner. Qualifications for candidates for to the city is maintained at the end of Appendix A. the offices of mayor and city commissioner are as set out in Section 2 -87, Code of the City of Winter Springs, Florida, as may be amended from time to Section 2.03. Annexation procedure. time The commission of the City of Winter Springs, Section 4.02. Commission districts; adjust Florida, may propose by ordinance to annex an went of districts. area of contiguous, compact, unincorporated land to the territorial limits of the municipality; or (a) Number of districts. The city commission of upon petition by all landowners of real property the City of Winter Springs, Florida, shall by which is contiguous, reasonably compact and un- separate ordinance divide the city into five (5) incorporated, the City of Winter Springs, may geographical commission districts. annex said land to the territorial limits of the (b) Districting commission. By the first day of municipality by ordinance. The procedure to be followed in the annexation of territory shall be as February, 1991, the first day of February, 1992, and every three (3) years thereafter, the city set forth in Chapter 171, Florida Statutes as it commission shall appoint seven (7) city electors now exists or as it may be renumbered or amended. determined from the registration of the last reg- ular election, one (1) to be appointed by each ARTICLE III. POWERS OF THE CITY commissioner from his/her respective district, and two (2) appointed by the mayor from the city at large, who shall comprise the districting commis- Section 3.01. Generally. sion. Electors chosen shall not be employed by the city in any other capacity The initial districting The city shall have all powers possible for a city commission, creating and establishing the first to have under the constitution and laws of this commission districts, shall be appointed by each State as fully and completely as though they were commissioner and the mayor from the city at specifically enumerated in this Charter. large. Supp. No. 2 3 4.02 WINTER SPRINGS CODE (c) Report; specifications. The districting com- nance. The proposed redistricting ordinance may mission shall file with the official designated by not be rejected for any reason except for failure to the city commission a report containing a recom- comply with the specifications listed in section mended plan for establishment or adjustment of 4.02(c) of this Charter or failure to comply with the commission district boundaries. The initial other local, state or federal law. districting commission, creating and establishing the first commission districts, shall file such re- (g) Effect of enactment. The new commission port within ninety (90) days of appointment. districts and boundaries as of the date of enact Thereafter, such reports shall be filed within one ment shall supersede previous commission dis- hundred twenty (120) days of appointment to the tricts and boundaries for all purposes; provided districting commission. The commission district incumbent commissioners shall continue to boundaries shall comply with the following spec- hold office for the entire term to which elected ifications: notwithstanding any change in commission dis- trict and boundaries. (1) Each district shall be formed of compact, contiguous territory, and its boundary lines Section 4.03. Election and terms. shall follow the center lines of streets insofar as practical or possible, or other (a) The regular election of mayor and commis boundaries available. sioners shall be held at the time provided for in Section 8.01 of this Charter. All elections shall be (2) The districts shall be based upon the for four -year terms of office. The terms of the principle of equal and effective represen- mayor and commissioner shall begin the first tation as required by the United States Monday after the first day of December of each Constitution and as represented in the year an election is held. mathematical preciseness reached in the legislative apportionment of the state. (b) City commission seats are hereby desig- (3) The report shall include a map and de- nated as seats one, two, three, four and five. scription of the districts recommended (c) The mayor shall be limited to three (3) and shall be drafted as a proposed ordi- consecutive full terms of office. Commission mem- nance. Once filed with the designated bers shall be limited to three (3) consecutive full official, the report shall be treated as an terms of office. The mayor or any commission ordinance introduced by a commissioner. member who has served three (3) consecutive full (d) Support. It shall be the responsibility of the terms of office after having been out of office for a city manager to provide staff assistance and tech- period of one (1) year, shall be eligible for election nical data to the districting commission. to successive three (3) consecutive full terms of office; provided however, this limitation shall not (e) Procedure. The procedure for the city prohibit a person who has served three (3) con commission's consideration of the report shall be secutive full terms of office as mayor from quali- the same as for other ordinances, provided that if fying and being elected as a commission member; a summary of the ordinances is published pursu- nor shall this limitation prohibit a person who ant to this Charter and general law, it must has served three (3) consecutive full terms of include both the map and a description of the office as a commission member from qualifying recommended districts. and being elected as mayor of the city. (f) Failure to enact ordinance. The city commis- Section 4.04. Compensation; expenses. sion shall adopt the redistricting ordinance at least one hundred twenty (120) days before the The city commission may determine the an- next city election. If the city commission fails to nual salary of mayor and commissioners by ordi- either accept or reject the redistricting ordinance, nance, but no ordinance increasing such salary the report of the districting commission shall go shall become effective until the date of commence- into effect and have the same effect of an ordi- ment of the terms of mayor and commissioners Supp. No. 2 4