Sacramento County Grand Jury
• 2021-2022
• Agency Response
Response to:
Update from City of Isleton
City of Isleton*
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Findings and Recommendations 5 findings
F1
- The Isleton City Council violated Government Code section 36512(b) by failing to appoint and/or failing to call for a Special Election to replace a vacancy on the Isleton City Council. (a) The City Council AGREES with this finding. 2.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
- The Isleton City Council should appoint a person to fill the vacancy on the Isleton City Council by June 30, 2022. (a) The City Council HAS NOT IMPLEMENTED this recommendation, but will within the timeline allowed. The City Council anticipates appointing a person to fill the vacancy before June 30, 2022. To do so, on or before June 30, 2022, the City March 31, 2022 Council will identify eligible and interested candidates by application. Then, on or before June 30, 2022, the City Council will select a person to fill the vacancy from that pool of eligible and interested candidates. The candidate who receives a majority of votes from City Council members will be the person chosen to fill the vacancy. If no candidate receives a majority, the decision will be made by a coin toss between the two candidates with the most votes. 2.
F2
- The Isleton City Council disregarded Government Code section 36512(b), the advice of its City Attorney, the advice contained in the Staff Report dated June 22, 2021, and recommendations of several citizens during the June 22, 2021 City Council Meeting when it failed to appoint and/or failed to call for a Special Election to fill a vacancy on the City Council. (a) The City Council AGREES with this finding. 3.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
– If the Isleton City Council fails to appoint a replacement by June 30, 2022, a Special Election should be held. (a) The City Council HAS NOT IMPLEMENTED this recommendation. If the City Council fails to appoint a person to fill the vacancy on the Isleton City Council on or before June 30, 2022 in the manner described above, the City Council will call for a Special Election in compliance with the Government Code and Elections Code at the regular City Council meeting in July 2022. * 1
F3
- Failure of the Isleton City Council to follow the mandate of Government Code section 36512(b) was a breach of the City of Isleton Code of Conduct for City Council Members. (a) The City Council AGREES with this finding. Pursuant to the City of Isleton Code of Conduct for City Council Members, effective January 24, 2008, each City Council member is obliged to comply with the mandates of law. 4.
No recommendations for this finding
F4
- Failure to appoint a person to fill the vacancy on the Isleton City Council dilutes the public's representation in government since there is one fewer Council Member to express views, opinions, ideas, and diverse opinions as well as potentially resulting in split decisions which would inhibit the Council from making appropriate decisions. (a) The City Council AGREES with this finding. 5.
No recommendations for this finding
F5
– The lack of a penalty provision for failure to comply with Government Code section 36512(b) motivated the Isleton City Council to ignore the mandatory requirement to either appoint or call for a Special Election to fill the vacancy on the City Council and leave its constituency with no redress. (a) The City Council AGREES with this finding. B. RESPONSE TO RECOMMENDATIONS 1.
No recommendations for this finding
* This report's PDF did not contain easily extractable text and required Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for analysis. There may be minor errors in the extracted findings and recommendations due to OCR limitations with scanned documents.