Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: President Dave Pine, District 1
Vice President Warren Slocum, District 4
Subject: Formalization of a Process for the Annual Rotation of Officers of the Board of Supervisors
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution formalizing a process for the annual rotation of officers of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors.
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BACKGROUND:
State law requires the Board of Supervisors to elect a Chairperson of the Board and allows for the election of a Vice Chairperson. (In San Mateo County, the practice is to use the terms "Board President" and "Board Vice President.") For at least the last two decades, the Board has elected its President and Vice President at the Board's annual reorganization meeting, which typically occurs at the first regular meeting of the Board in January of each year.
The Board also has an established practice of using a rotation system to determine who to elect as President and Vice President each year. Specifically, the practice has been that the outgoing President moves to the end of the rotation behind all other Board members, the Vice President becomes President for a one-year term, and the next in line in the rotation becomes Vice President for a one-year term. Once these offices have been filled, continuing and re-elected Board members move up in the rotation, and newly elected and newly appointed members are added to the rotation before the outgoing President and behind the continuing and re-elected Board members.
DISCUSSION:
San Mateo County strives to uphold core democratic principles, and its historical use of a rotation system to elect Board officers serves that goal by allowing all Board members to serve as Board president, creating equitable representation for the County's five supervisorial districts, balancing the priorities and opinions of the Board's members, promoting equity and diversity; and ensur...
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