RPV City Council Rule 4
[This is the Rule that dictates who may be selected at Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem.]
4. DUTIES OF THE MAYOR
4.1 Election of the Mayor
The Mayor is a member of the City Council and is annually elected by majority vote of the City Council at the first regular meeting in December or, in the case of an election year, upon certification of the election results. As a member of the City Council, the Mayor shall have all the powers of a member.
4.2 Mayor Pro Tem
The Mayor Pro Tem shall be selected by a Council majority vote.
[Adopted Resolution 93-20, March 2, 1993. Re-adopted Resolution 2000-01, January 18, 2000.]
The History of RPV Mayor Selection Policies
January 18, 2000 - Resol. No. 2000-01:
The Mayor is a member of the City Council and is annually elected by majority vote of the City Council at the first regular meeting in December or, in the case of an election year, upon certification of the election results. As a member of the City Council, the Mayor shall have all the powers of a member.
The Mayor Pro Tem shall be selected by a Council majority vote.
March 2, 1993 - Resol. No. 93-20:
Mayor: Annually elected by majority vote at 1st regular Meeting. in December, or, in the case of an election year, upon certification of the election results.
Mayor Pro Tem: Shall be selected by a Council majority vote.
March 1, 1983 - Minute Order:
(1) This policy supercedes all previous policies.
(2) Council shall reorganize at the 1st meeting in December;
(3) The member of Council nominated for Mayor Pro Tem shall be that member who has served the longest as a councilmember since last being mayor, or who has served the longest and not been mayor;
Mayor:
(4) The incumbent Mayor Pro Tem shall be nominated for Mayor;
(5) New Councilperson(s) shall be placed ahead of the Mayor serving at the time of election in the rotation order. In the case of multiple new councilmembers, their order shall be determined by the election totals;
(6) Any councilmember may request to be dropped back in rotation order one slot subject to the approval of the Council
July 3, 1979 - Resol. No. 79-62:
Mayor: (1) Rotate the position of Mayor on an annual basis among the members of the City Council. In electing a person to the position of Mayor, priority shall be given to those individuals who have not held the position of Mayor previously and to the person or persons who have served on the City Council the longest period of time without being elected to the position of Mayor.
(2) In the event that all members of the City Council have held the position of Mayor, then priority shall be given to the person or persons who have served the longest period without being Mayor.
Mayor Pro Tem: Silent
April 1, 1975 - Resol. No. 75-31:
Mayor: At the second meeting in March of each year, except as otherwise provided by law, Council shall organize and select a Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore
The City Council has not followed the then existing "Policy" a number of times. In fact, in Nov. 1982 the City Council selected Jacki Bacharach to serve as Mayor Pro Tem immediately following her term as Mayor.
Then in December 1989 the City Council chose to select Mel Hughes as Mayor rather than John McTaggart, choosing not to follow the 1983 Policy that read "(4) The incumbent Mayor Pro Tem shall be nominated for Mayor." McTaggart was instead kept as the Mayor Pro Tem for two years in a row.
In December 1990 that same City Council selected Douglas Hinchcliffe as Mayor, again passing over John McTaggart. It selected Jacki Bacharach as Mayor Pro Tem.
Hence, not only does the PRESENT POLICY not require a mechanical rotation as some suggest, but even the then exiting "Policy" has not been followed when City Council members believed it was not in the best interest of the City.