LOS ALAMITOS : Residency Plan Gets Tentative Approval
A recommendation to eliminate residency requirements for the city clerk and treasurer was tentatively approved by the City Council on Monday.
The city code currently requires the clerk and treasurer to become residents of Los Alamitos within six months of appointment.
City Atty. Thomas W. Allen said the city code would have to be amended because in the past several years the city clerk/city treasurer has also been the city manager, for which there are no residency requirements.
“When the job is held by the same person, it complicates things,” Allen said. He added that “to require a city employee to live in the city violates state law.”
Robert C. Dunek, the newly hired city manager who also serves as city clerk and treasurer, resides in Irvine. If the city code is not amended, he could be required to move to Los Alamitos by April 9.
“By approving this, all we’d be doing is making the code consistent with the way we handle things in the city,” Councilman Ronald Bates said.
The council will take final action on the recommendation at its Dec. 11 meeting.
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