City Council · March 20, 2024 · 7:00 PM
**TO BE HELD AT SENIOR CENTER** City Council Ad Hoc Rules and Procedures Committee of the Whole Meeting
Council considered multiple ordinances to amend City Council rules: 2024-019 (codifying dog hearings as a separate meeting was referred positively; proposal to reduce council meetings to one per month received a negative recommendation), 2024-020 (attendance requirements for adjudicatory hearings referred negatively), 2024-021 (remote participation referred negatively), 2024-022 (clarifying objections/postponement language referred with a drafting amendment), and 2024-017 (comprehensive amendments to standing committee composition and procedures were adopted).
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Key decisions
Ordinance 2024-019 (part one: codify dog hearings as separate from scheduled City Council meetings) sent to Ordinance & Administration Subcommittee with a positive recommendation.
Ordinance 2024-019 (part two: proposed change to have City Council meet one time per month) sent to Ordinance & Administration Subcommittee with a negative recommendation.
Ordinance 2024-020 (add rule on attendance relating to public/adjudicatory hearings or meetings) sent to Ordinance & Administration Subcommittee with a negative recommendation.
Ordinance 2024-021 (add rule on remote participation) sent to Ordinance & Administration Subcommittee with a negative recommendation after a failed motion to send with a positive recommendation.
Ordinance 2024-022 (revise Rule 6O: Objections and Postponement of Votes) sent to Ordinance & Administration Subcommittee with a positive recommendation and a specific drafting amendment to replace the first sentence as proposed.
Ordinance 2024-017 (revise Rule 11-A: Standing Committees) was amended multiple times during the meeting: striking specified subitems, changing committee composition and rules on presentations, permitting Committee of the Whole meetings, allowing audio recordings for committee meetings, permitting current chair to remain chair of a Committee of the Whole formed from their committee, and clarifying rule 2-B applies to ad-hoc committee creation.
Agenda
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2024-002. City Council Fourteenth Session Rules and Procedures 2024
Discussion of City Council Fourteenth Session Rules and Procedures (docket 2024-002).