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File #: 88129    Version: 1 Name: Common Council Meeting Start Time
Type: Ordinance Status: Items Referred
File created: 4/28/2025 In control: COMMON COUNCIL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
On agenda: 5/6/2025 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Amending Section 2.01(1) of the Madison General Ordinances related to modify the start time of Common Council meetings.
Sponsors: Regina M. Vidaver, MGR Govindarajan

Fiscal Note

No City appropriation required.

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Amending Section 2.01(1) of the Madison General Ordinances related to modify the start time of Common Council meetings.

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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS:    This ordinance modifies the start time of Common Council meetings from 6:30 p.m. to no earlier than 5:30 p.m.

 

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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:

 

                     1.                     Subsection (1) of Section 2.01 entitled “Meetings” of the Madison General Ordinances is amended as follows:

 

“(1)                     The stated meeting of the Common Council shall be held in the Council Chambers, or at a location or by a means determined pursuant to Section 2.15 of the Madison General Ordinances, on the first and third Tuesdays of every month at 6:30 no earlier than 5:30 p.m., except in August and December the Common Council will meet only on the first Tuesday. A special November meeting or meetings will be held for the Capital and Operating Budgets. Following a regular City of Madison election, the newly elected Common Council also shall hold an organizational meeting on the third Tuesday of April. The Council will establish the meeting dates for all meetings by resolution and post the schedule at least annually, and may modify meeting dates for holidays and elections.”