Fiscal Note
No fiscal impact.
Title
Amending Section 33.01(10)(c) of the Madison General Ordinances to limit when City subunit meetings are not to be held and to allow the Common Council to permit exceptions.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance changes the recently enacted 33.01(10)(c) so that the ban on subunit meetings only applies to in person meetings rather than all meetings. It also changes the description of the types of orders that limit gatherings to a generic statement applying to any “prohibition” on those gatherings, so long as the prohibition has an exception for governmental functions. Finally, it expands the authority to allow such meetings to include the Common Council.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Subdivision (c) entitled “Emergency Situation” of Subsection (10) entitled “Meetings Not to be Held” of Section 33.01 entitled “Boards, Commissions, And Committees Procedures” of the Madison General Ordinances is amended as follows:
“(c) Emergency Situation. No Sub-unit shall hold an in-person meeting whenever a prohibition of mass gatherings of zero to forty (0-40) persons is in effect for the City of Madison there has been an officially declared city, county, state or federal emergency or when the Director of Public Health Madison and Dane County has determined it is reasonable and necessary for the prevention or suppression of disease to limit public gatherings, unless the prohibition has an exception for governmental functions and (1) the Mayor, and Common Council President, or (2) the Common Council, determine the meeting is necessary to provide essential functions or support to the operations of the City.”