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Amending Section 16.01(2) of the Madison General Ordinances to be consistent with an adopted ordinance on the composition of the Long-Range Transportation Planning Committee.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This is really part of the Attorney’s Revisor’s Ordinance, but since it is amending a charter ordinance, it should be voted on separately. Legistar No. 18267, adopted some two years ago, made a change in the composition of the LRTPC by having only two members of the Plan Commission serve on the LRTPC. A corresponding change to sec. 16.01(2), MGO, was never made. This ordinance makes that change to the two ordinances are consistent.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
The City of Madison elects not to be governed by the provisions of Wis. Stat. § 62.23(1). This election is made pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 66.0101(4).
Subsection (2) entitled “Composition” of Section 16.01 entitled “City Plan Commission” of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
“(2) Composition. The City Plan Commission shall consist of nine (9) voting members. The Mayor or his/her designee shall serve as a member of the commission. The other members shall be three (3) members of the Common Council and five (5) citizens. The Mayor, at the annual organizational meeting each year, shall indicate to the Common Council whether he/she will serve as chairperson of the Plan Commission or inform the Common Council of the name of his/her designee. The Mayor may elect to assume membership on the commission at any time. In the event the Mayor names a designee, the commission shall elect one (1) of its members to be chairperson. Three (3) Two (2) of the members of the Plan Commission shall also be members of the Long-Range Transportation Planning Committee.
This is a Charter Ordinance and shall be effective sixty (60)...
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