City of Madison - File #: 08071

• File #: 08071
• Version: 1
• Name: Chapter 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 11/12/2007
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• On agenda: 12/4/2007
• Final action: 12/4/2007
• Enactment date: 12/20/2007
• Enactment #: ORD-07-00194
• Title: Amending Chapter 2 of the Madison General ordinances to clarify and modify a number of the Standing Rules of the Common Council.
• Sponsors: Michael E. Verveer, Tim Bruer, Brenda K. Konkel, Satya V. Rhodes-Conway, Robbie Webber, Judy Compton, Michael Schumacher, Joseph R. Clausius

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/4/2007	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Adopt	Pass
11/20/2007	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Refer to a future Meeting to Adopt
11/12/2007	1	Attorney's Office	Referred for Introduction

Fiscal Note
No appropriation required.
Title
Amending Chapter 2 of the Madison General ordinances to clarify and modify a number of the Standing Rules of the Common Council.
Body
DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: This ordinance is a revision of Chapter 2 of the Madison General Ordinances, the standing rules for the operation of the Common Council. The revision has been reviewed by a subcommittee of the Common Council Organizational Committee (CCOC), and the CCOC itself. It is being sponsored by the CCOC.
Some of the changes are minor. Other changes make substantive, and in some cases significant, changes in the procedure before the Council. And yet other changes merely codify what is current practice.
In order to assist the Council in considering these matters, I have included a small drafter’s analysis after each section of the amended Chapter 2. These provisions will not appear in the Madison General Ordinances when the revisions are made.
In addition, at the request of the CCOC, a number of the City Attorney’s “Point of Order” memos and the memo on substitutes and alternates have been included as attachments to this ordinance.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
Chapter 2 entitled “Standing Rules For The Government of the Common Council” of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
“2.01 MEETINGS.
(1) The stated meeting of the Common Council shall be held in the Council Chambers on the first and third Tuesdays of every month at 6:30 p.m., except in August and December the Common Council will meet only on the first Tuesday; provided, however, that a meeting shall be scheduled for November 14, 2006 for the purpose of adopting the 2007 Capital and Operating Budgets that additional meetings to consider the 2007 Capital and Operating Budgets shall be scheduled for November 15 and 16, 2006, if necessary, each starting at 7:00 p...