AGENDA  ORANGE COVE CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Wednesday, December 11, 2024 6:00 PM City of Orange Cove Council Chambers 6336hSt. Orange Cove, CA 93646 ZOOM Information  itps/usO6web.zom.S/8308313886/PMOFEMIogzXuuabel24B00WIAPBWJTIKV.1  Meeting ID: 83083136886 Passcode: 178319  1. CALL TO ORDER/WELCOME  Roll Call Invocation  Flag Salute (Pledge of Allegiance) 2. CONFIRMATION OF AGENDA 3. PRESENTATIONS  Presentation of plaques to Council Members  4. REGULAR BUSINESS  SUBJECT: RESOLUTION NO. 2024-44, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE COVE, CALIFORNIA, RECITING THE FACTS OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION HELD ON NOVEMBER 5, 2024, DECLARING THE RESULT AND  SUCH OTHER MATTERS AS PROVIDED BY LAW    RECOMMENDATION: TO APPROVE RESOLUTION NO. 2024-44, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE COVE, CALIFORNIA, RECITING THE FACTS OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION HELD ON NOVEMBER 5, 2024, DECLARING THE RESULT AND SUCH OTHER MATTERS AS PROVIDED BY LAW  5. PUBLIC COMMENTS  Notice(s) to the Public: This is the opportunity for any member of the public to address the City Council only on the items listed on this Special Council Meeting Agenda. Members of the public shall limit their remarks to three (3)  minutes and no more than 15 minutes per topic.  6. ADJOURNMENT  ADA Notice: In compliance with the. Americans with Disabilities Act, ify you need. special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the City Clerk at (559) 626-4488 ext. 213. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the city to make arrangements to Documents: Any writings or documents provided to a majority of the City Council regarding any item on this agenda will be made available for public inspection at the front counter at City Hall, Orange Cove, CA during normal business hours. In addition, most documents are posted  ensure accessibility toi this meeting.  on the City's website at alyolorangecove.com,    STATEMENT ON RULES OF DECORUM AND ENFORCEMENT The Brown Act provides that members of the public have a right to attend public meetings, to provide public comment on action items and under the public forum section of the agenda, and to criticize the policies, procedures, or services of the city or of the acts or omissions of the city council. The Brown Act also provides that the City Council has the right to exclude all persons who willfully cause a disruption of a meeting SO that  itcannot be conducted in an orderly fashion.  During a meeting of the Orange Cove City Council, there is a need for civility and expedition in the carrying out of public business in order to ensure that the public has a full opportunity to be heard and that the Council has an opportunity to conduct business in an orderly manner. The following is provided to place everyone on notice of the rules  of decorum and enforcement.  GENERAL RULES OF DECORUM  While any meeting of the City Council is in session, the following rules of 1. All remarks shall be addressed to the City Council as a whole and not to any single member, unless in response to a question from a member of the City 2. A person who addresses the City Council under public comment for a specific agenda item or under the Public Forum section of the agenda may not engage in speech or conduct (i) which is likely to provoke others to violent or riotous behavior, (i) which disturbs the peace of the meeting by loud and unreasonable noise, (ili) which is irrelevant or repetitive, or (iv) which disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of any City Council 3. A person, other than members of the Council and the person, who has the floor, shall not be permitted to enter into the discussion unless requested by 4. Members of the City Council may not interrupt a person who has the floor and isr making public comments. Members of the City Council shall wait until a person completes his or her public comments before asking questions or commenting. The mayor shall then ask Councilmembers if they have 5. No person in the audience at a Council meeting shall engage in disorderly or boisterous conduct, including the utterance of loud, threatening or abusive  decorum shall be observed:  Council.  meeting.  the mayor to speak.  comments or questions.    language, whistling, stamping of feet or other acts which disturb, disrupt or otherwise impede the orderly conduct of any Council meeting.  ENFORCEMENT OF DECORUM RULES (Resolution No. 2012-16)  While the City Council is in session, all persons must preserve order and decorum. A person who addresses the city council under public comment for a specific agenda item or under the Public Forum section of the agenda may not engage in speech or conduct which is likely to provoke others to violent or riotous behavior, which disturbs the peace of the meeting by loud and unreasonable noise, which is irrelevant or repetitive, or which disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise The mayor or other presiding officer shall request that a person who is breaching the rules of decorum cease such conduct. Ifafter receiving such a warning, the person persists in breaching the rules of decorum, the mayor or other presiding officer may order the person to leave the City Council meeting. Ifsuch person does not leave, the mayor or presiding officer may request any law enforcement officer who is on duty at the meeting as sergeant-at-arms to remove the person from the Council Chambers. In the event there is no one from law enforcement present, the mayor or presiding officer may direct the City Manager to contact  impedes the orderly conduct of any City Council meeting.  law enforcement.  Ina accordance with the Point of Order Rule 4.6, the majority of the Council may overrule the mayor if the majority of the Council believes the mayor or other presiding officer is not applying the rules of decorum appropriately.    RESOLUTION NO. 2024-44  Al RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE COVE, CALIFORNIA, RECITING THE FACTS OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION HELD ONI NOVEMBER 5, 2024, DECLARING THE RESULTAND SUCH OTHER MATTERS. ASI PROVIDEDBYLAW.  WHEREAS, a General Municipal Election was held and conducted in the City of Orange Cove in Tuesday, November 5, 2024, in accordance with the general laws of the State of California  applicable thereto, for the following purpose:  Elect two members ofthe City Council of the City of Orange Cove.  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Orange Cove as  follows:  (a) That the total number of legal ballots cast in the election was and is 2,943. (b) That the following named persons were candidates and/or were voted for at said election for the office ofl Member, Orange Cove City Council, and received the highest numbers of  votes cast for said office: Castan Ortiz Jacob. JD Del Bosque 830  1,037  (c) That the number of votes given for each of said candidates for office of Member, Orange Cove City Council, is described on1 the attached certified election report; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED and declared the Orange Cove City Council that the following named persons were elected at said election to the office, Member, Orange Cove City Council, to  wit:  Castan Ortiz  Term of office: 2024-2028  Jacob JI Del Bosque Term of office: 2024-2028  CLERK'S CERTIFICATION  I,C Cynthia Cisneros, City Clerk for the City of Orange Cove, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 2024-44 was duly approved at a special meeting of the Orange Cove City Council  on December 11, 2024, by the following vote:  AYES: NOES: ABSENT: 0 ABSTAIN: 0  0 0  COUNCIL MEMBERS: COUNÇIL MEMBERS: COUNCIL MEMBERS COUNCIL MEMBERS:    APPROVED:  Diana Guerra-Silva, Mayor APPROVED ASTOI FORM:  ATTEST:  Cynthia Cisneros, City Clerk