ITEM TITLE:
Accept Resignation from City Council Member Dom Lumba
SUBMITTED BY: Sheri Pierce, MMC, City Clerk
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SUMMARY STATEMENT:
Please see the attached letter of resignation from Council Member Lumba. The City Council will need to formally accept Council Member Lumba’s resignation and provide direction to the City Clerk on how you would like to fill the vacancy. The City Council must fill the vacancy within 30 days of accepting the resignation. The Council may appoint a qualified candidate with or without advertising for letters of interest. There have been instances where the city council has offered the vacant seat to the candidate who received the next highest number of votes in the most recent municipal election; however, in this case there were no other candidates for the office of city council member at the last election.
Following is the excerpt from Charter regarding the process for filling a temporary vacancy.
Section 2.14. Filling Vacancies. (a) If a vacancy occurs in an elective office, except in the case of recall, the council shall fill the vacancy by appointment within thirty days thereafter. If the vacancy occurs less than twenty-four hours prior to the last date and time set for filing nominating petitions for offices to be filed at the next regular meeting of the council next following such regular city election, it shall not be filled until the first regular meeting of the council next following such regular city election. Each such appointment shall be for a term ending at the next regular council meeting following the next regular city election.
(b) If a vacancy occurs in an appointive office, such vacancy shall be filled within forty-five days thereafter in the manner provided for making the original appointment. Such time may be extended, for not more than an additional ninety days, by the council resolution setting forth the reasons therefor.