Ordinance 1259-86 - Laserfiche WebLink

• y thereafter shall be made on or before December 1st of the year next preceding January 1st of the year in which the next term commences. Said appointment shall be 1 subject to confirmation by City Council. Preliminary to said confirmation, a Judicial 2 Candidate Review Panel shall be appointed consisting of one member appointed by the 3 Mayor and one member appointed by a majority of the City Council. Said two members 4 shall appoint a third member to constitute a three member panel which shall review the 5 background and qualifications of all judicial candidates and submit to the Mayor the 6 names of three candidates from which list the Mayor shall appoint the municipal judge; 7 provided that the Mayor's appointment shall be submitted to City Council for final 8 confirmation. City Council confirmation shall be by a majority of the whole 9 membership. 10 B. A person appointed as municipal judge shall be a citizen of the United 11 States of America and of the State of Washington; and an attorney admitted to practice 12 law before the courts of record of the State of Washington. 13 Section 4: SALARIES AND COSTS. The municipal judge shall serve on a 14 part-time basis of at least 90 hours per month. The salary of the judge of the Everett 15 Municipal Court shall be $2,700 per month, subject to modification by ordinance at any 16 time during the term of appointment. All costs of operating the municipal court; 17 including but not limited to salaries of judges and court employees, dockets, books of 18 records, forms, furnishings and supplies, shall be paid wholly out of the funds of the 19 City. The City shall provide space for holding court and pay all expenses of maintaining 20 it. 21 Section 5: MUNICIPAL COURT EMPLOYEES. All employees of the 22 municipal court shall, for all purposes, be deemed employees of the City of Everett. 23 They shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the judge of the Everett 24 Municipal Court. Employees of the court shall be appointive officers pursuant to 25 Section 4.4 of the Charter of the City of Everett and shall be entitled to all employee 26 benefits relating thereto. Said employees shall perform court-assigned duties in 27 accordance with all policies and procedures established by the City of Everett. 28 Section 6: JUDGES PRO TEM. The Mayor shall, in writing, subject to 29 concurrence of the judge of the Everett Municipal Court, appoint judges pro tem who 30 shall act in such matters as requested by the judge and in the absence or disability of 31 the regular judges or subsequent to the filing of an affidavit of prejudice. The judges 32 pro tem shall be qualified to hold the position of the judge of the municipal court as 2