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Adopt an ORDINANCE Amending Title 1, Chapter 1-3, Article 7, of the San Leandro Municipal Code to Include Updated Language to the Description and Goals of the Human Services Commission
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The City of San Leandro does ORDAIN that Title 1, Chapter 1-3, Article 7 be amended as follows:
SECTION 1. PURPOSE. The following changes will be added to the San Leandro Municipal Code and will promote San Leandro’s vision of inclusiveness, community and diversity.
SECTION 2. CEQA. Approval of the amendments is exempt from further environmental review under the general rule in California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) that CEQA only applies to projects that have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. As a series of text amendments and additions, it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the ordinance will have a significant effect on the environment.
SECTION 3. AMENDMENT OF CODE. Title 1, Chapter 1-3, Article 7, of the San Leandro Municipal Code is hereby amended in its entirety as follows:
San Leandro Municipal Code Section 1-3-705 POWERS AND DUTIES.
The Commission shall advise the Council on all matters relating to social conditions within the City, assess and report to the Council the social needs of the people, recommend to the Council methods for meeting such needs, and assist the Council in marshalling the human resources necessary to accomplish the foregoing. In discharge of this responsibility, the Commission shall:
(a) Evaluate social services being provided to communities in need within the City, and provide advice and assistance toward equitable provision and coordination thereof;
(b) Provide motivation for the development of new social services as the need therefor is determined;
(c) Coordinate the efforts of social service agencies to raise funds from the community;
(d) Assist in the procurement of grants from public and private funding sources;
(e) Study proposed programs and proposed budgets of social service agencies requesting City assistance and recommend Council approval or disapproval of such programs, budgets and requests. The Commission shall conduct periodic reviews or such programs and budgets and shall report to the Council on the implementation of such programs and expenditures of City funds and physical resources therefor.
The Commission shall not be limited to those duties hereinbefore specifically set forth, but shall do all things necessary to identify the role and responsibility of the City of San Leandro in relation to social conditions, needs and aspirations within the City and to assist in the assumption of such role and the discharge of such responsibility by the City of San Leandro. In so doing, the Commission shall work with and seek the cooperation of individuals and public and private entities in bringing to bear the human resources or the community for the foregoing purposes.
SECTION 4. SEVERABILITY. If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance, or its application to any person or circumstance, is for any reason held to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases of this Ordinance, or its application to any other person or circumstance. The City Council of the City of San Leandro hereby declares that it would have adopted each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases hereof is declared invalid or unenforceable.
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE AND PUBLICATION. This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after adoption. The City Clerk is directed to publish the title once and post a complete copy thereof on the City Council Chamber bulletin board for five (5) days prior to adoption.