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SECTION 8. The Council of the City of Redwood City <br />hereby proposes, on its own motion, to amend the Charter of <br />the City of Redwood City, by amending Section 9 thereof, <br />to read as follows: <br />"SECTION 9. THE COUNCIL: <br />"The Council shall be comprised of seven council- <br />men, including the Mayor, and shall be the legislative <br />body of the city, each of the members of which, <br />including the Mayor, shall have the right to vote <br />upon all questions before it. <br />"Councilmen shall be elected at each general <br />municipal election and shall hold office for the term <br />of four years from and after the Monday next succeeding <br />the day of such election and until their successors are <br />elected and qualified. The councilmen in office at the <br />time of this charter taking effect shall continue in office <br />until the end of the terms for which they were respectively <br />elected. <br />"Any vacancy occurring in the Council shall be filled <br />by appointment by the remaining councilmen; but in the <br />event that said remaining councilmen fail to fill such <br />vacancy by appointment within 60 days after vacancy occurs, <br />they must immediately cause an election to be held to fill <br />such vacancy; provided, however, that any person appointed <br />to fill such vacancy shall hold office only until the next <br />regular election, at which date a person shall be elected <br />to serve for the remainder of such unexpired term. In <br />case a member of the council is absent from the city for <br />a period of 90 days, unless by permission of the Council, <br />his office shall by the Council be declared vacant and <br />the same filled as in the case of other vacancies. <br />"The councilmen shall receive as compensation <br />one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per month. Payment <br />of compensation at the foregoing rate shall be made <br />upon ratification by the Legislature of this amendment, <br />but in no event before July 1, 1968. <br />"No councilman shall be eligible during the term <br />for which he was appointed or elected to hold any other <br />office or employment with the city, except as a member of <br />any board, commission, or committee thereof, of which he <br />is constituted such member by general law or by this <br />charter. " <br />(a) Said Charter amendment proposal shall be submitted <br />to the electors of the City of Redwood City at the general <br />municipal election to be held in the City on April 9, 1968, <br />in the form of a proposal to amend said Charter by amending <br />- 13 - <br />