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AMENDED SECOND SUBSTITUTE Creating Section 33.52 of the Madison General Ordinances establishing a City of Madison Food Policy Council.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance creates a Food Policy Council as a committee of the City, with 23 members.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
Section 33.52 entitled “Food Policy Council” of the Madison General Ordinances is created as a committee to read as follows:
“33.52 FOOD POLICY COUNCIL.
(1) Food Policy Council. The City of Madison Food Policy Council (FPC) is created and shall be governed by this ordinance.
(2) Membership; Terms.
(a) The FPC shall consist of twenty-three (23) members appointed by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the Common Council; except that the representative of the Madison Metropolitan School District shall be appointed by the Superintendent of the School District. Three (3) of the members shall be alderpersons; aldermanic appointees shall serve a term expiring concurrent with their term as alders. Nineteen (19) of the The remaining twenty (20) members shall be adult citizen appointees; adult citizen appointees shall serve a term of three years expiring on October 1st in the third year following appointment, except the term of the member of the Community Gardens Committee shall expire with his or her term on the Community Gardens Committee. One (1) member shall be a youth member less than nineteen (19) years of age and shall serve a term of one year, expiring on June 30. All vacancies shall be filled by appointment of the Mayor, subject to Common Council approval, for a term filling out the remainder of the vacated members’ term.
(b) When the FPC is first constituted, the initial appointments shall be staggered as follows: Seven (7) citizen appointee...
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