REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
2014 Seating Arrangements for City Council
Report
DISCUSSION
Council Policy 7.3.11 (Attachment 1) provides a process to determine the seating arrangements of Councilmembers at Council meetings. This procedure is conducted as the last item of business at the meeting during which the Mayor and Vice Mayor are selected.
Section 3.B. of Council's Policy states, "Councilmembers shall select where they wish to sit on the basis of length of continuous time of service on the City Council. The selection process shall be in the order of most senior to least senior. When two or more Councilmembers have equivalent time of service, those Councilmembers are given priority in seat selection by the highest number of votes received in their most recent election." Therefore, after selection of the seats to be occupied by the Mayor and the Vice Mayor, the following order is to be used to select the remaining seats:
Year First Elected
Councilmember
# Votes Last Election
Last Election Date
Most Senior
2007
David Whittum
14,016
2011
2009
James R. "Jim" Griffith
11,410
2013
2011
Pat Meyering
9,092
2011
2011
Tara Martin-Milius
7,601
2011
2011
Jim Davis
6,239
2011
2013
Glenn Hendricks
10,181
2013
Least Senior
2013
Gustav Larsson
9,205
2013
Councilmembers will assume their new seats commencing with the next regular Council meeting scheduled on January 14, 2014.
EXISTING POLICY
Council Policy 7.3.11. Seating Arrangements/City Council
PUBLIC CONTACT
Public contact was made by posting the Council agenda on the City's official-notice bulletin board outside City Hall, at the Sunnyvale Senior Center, Community Center and Department of Public Safety; and by making the agenda and report available at the Sunnyvale Public Library, the Office of the City Clerk and on the City's website.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
Determine the seating arrangements for 2014 in accordance with Council Policy 7.3.11.
Staff...
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