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ALTERNATE: Amending Section 5.20(3)(a)3. of the Madison General Ordinances to modify the nomination process to the Police Civilian Oversight Board to align with current procedures for seeking applications.
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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: Under the current ordinance, each appointment to the Police Civilian Oversight Board (“PCOB”) must be nominated by a local community organization on a designated list created by the Common Council. While still encouraging the involvement of local community organizations, this Ordinance Amendment removes this requirement, instructs the Office of Independent Monitor to collect applications for membership to the PCOB into a pool of applicants from whom the Mayor and Common Council Leadership will appoint new PCOB members, and otherwise streamlines the process. The Ordinance Amendment also makes other changes to the election of PCOB leadership.
The ALTERNATE forgoes most of the changes suggested in the original ordinance amendment, and instead makes only one change to the ordinance, to align the ordinance with the current procedure for seeking applications, specifically that the Office of the Independent Monitor collects nominations and applications to the PCOB.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Paragraph 3. entitled “Nominated by Community-Based Organizations” of Subdivision (a) entitled “Members” of Subsection (3) entitled “Board Composition” of Section 5.20 entitled “Police Civilian Oversight Board” of the Madison General Ordinances is amended as follows:
“3. Nominated by community-based organizations. The Mayor and Common Council, in collaboration with the Department of Civil Rights, Office of the Independent Monitor, in conjunction with the Police Civilian Oversight Board, shall seek nominations from a designated set of nine (9) community-based organizations that have an interest in civil rights, immigrant rights, disability rights/mental health, racial equity and social justice, and that also have an interest in the safety of the city and criminal justice reform. Priority shall be given to organizations with budgets under $1 million. The designated set of organizations shall be initially created in conjunction with the adoption of this Ordinance and the Monitor, Board, and Common Council shall ensure that it is updated at least every two (2) years. Each community-based organization shall submit two (2) names and applications to the Mayor and Common Council, except that an organization may re-nominate a member whose term is expiring without submitting three names. The Mayor and Common Council shall appoint one (1) person nominated by each organization. In the event that a community organization or organizations does not submit two (2) nominations when requested or does not re-nominate a current member, the Mayor and Council Leadership shall make an appointment from the pool of any eligible applications to submit for confirmation to the Common Council.”
EDITOR’S NOTE:
TITLE: Amending Section 5.20(3)(a)3. of the Madison General Ordinances to modify the nomination process to the Police Civilian Oversight Board appointment process to align with current procedures for seeking applications.