Cariboo City Council Case Study

The Cariboo City council did not have authority to pass the regulations. Although in Cariboo City, the city Council gains its power from the charter, the state legislature and the federal and state constitutions. The city council is composed of ten elected city residents and are responsible for enacting laws and adopting resolutions to effect city policy. The council most also “enact all non-ballot measure laws (as ordinances), approve all city budgets, appropriate all money, award any contract more than 25,000 in an open bid process, approve all board appointments and certify all elections”.
The council has the authority to commission working groups to help facilitate informed decision making on issues related to city policy. Any of these recommendations however have no binding authority or force of law. This work group created by the council is known as the Board of Health and Human Services. The Board of Health and human services did not have the authority to issue the regulation. This is shown in the lack of procedure followed by both the Board of Human services and Cariboo city council. Like stated above the recommendation are not enforceable if not carried out through the right procedures. It is stated that “any appropriate board may promulgate regulations to be added to the Cariboo city …show more content…
“Any final regulation shall include a response to the public comment and a statement of intent in the commentary prior to coming into force. Once in effect, a board can amend its regulations at any time but must repeat the public process.” While some of these procedures were followed such as the response to the public and statement of intent it seems they were released after not prior to being put into force. Another violation of procedure. The city took the first four recommendations to two public hearings both failing to come to a resolution, none receiving enough vote to move