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Amending Section 2.205 to require the use of Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) when electing President and Vice President of the Common Council.
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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: This ordinance requires the use of Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) for the election of President and Vice President of the Common Council. The Ordinance also requires the Common Council to adopt a specific method of IRV by separate Common Council Resolution. Thus, this Ordinance is introduced with a companion resolution that would adopt that method.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
Section 2.205 entitled “President and Vice President” is amended as follows:
“2.205 - PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT.
The Common Council shall at its organizational meeting on the third Tuesday of April of each year, elect one member of the Council to act as President of the Council and another member to act as Vice President of the Common Council, pursuant to the provision of Wis. Stat. § 62.09(8)(e). When electing the President and Vice President as provided in this section the Common Council shall use Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) in a method approved by Common Council Resolution. The Vice President of the Common Council shall act during the absence, inability or disability of the president. Among other duties of the Council President and the Vice President, are those set forth in Secs. 2.04 (Order of Business), 3.35(10)(b) (Ethics Board), 4.02(4) (Finance Committee), and 33.13 (Common Council Executive Committee), MGO.
The Common Council President may, with the consent of the Common Council Executive Committee, appoint ad hoc subcommittees of the Common Council, to consist of 2-3 Council members, to address issues of a temporary nature. The subcommittees shall be subject to the rules for all ad hoc bodies set out in Sec. 33.01, MGO.”