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Creating new subsection 3.30(4) of the Madison General Ordinances to adopt an alternate method of removal of Alderpersons from City Boards, Commissions or Committees.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: Madison considers appointees to committees to be city “officers” for purposes of taking an oath (Wis. Stat. § 62.09(1) and (4)) and for removal from office under Wis. Stat. § 17.12. The latter statute was amended in 2018 to allow the Mayor to remove officers appointed by the Mayor without action of the Common Council. The same rule would apply to persons appointed by the Common Council President.
Utilizing an option set out in Wis. Stat. § 17.12(3m), this ordinance requires action by both the Mayor and the Council, or by the Council President and the Council, to remove any Alderpersons appointed to City board, commissions or committees by the Mayor or President and confirmed by the Council. The ordinance also adopts a requirement that the Council must find inefficiency, neglect of duty, official misconduct, or malfeasance in order to remove such alder.
This subsection is not being adopted as a Charter ordinance.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
Subsection (4) entitled “Removal of Members of City Boards, Commissions or Committees” of Section 30 entitled “Qualifications - City Officers, Members of Commissions, and Employees” of Subchapter 3B entitled “Qualification of Officials and Employees” of Chapter 3 entitled “Officials, Boards, Employees and Public Records” of the Madison General Ordinances is created to read as follows:
“(4) Removal of Members of City Boards, Commissions or Committees.
(a) For purposes of this subsection, the obligation to file oaths, and where otherwise clear from the context, all members of city boards, commissions or committees are city officers. Oaths otherwise filed shall be ...
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