Fiscal Note
No appropriation is required.
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Amending Section 33.02(2) of the Madison General Ordinances to change the composition of the Alcohol License Review Committee.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: The ordinance changes the composition of the ALRC from nine members to seven members. This change will become effective May 1, 2012.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Subsection (2) entitled "Composition" of Section 33.02 entitled "Alcohol License Review Committee" of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
"(2) Composition. The Alcohol License Review Committee shall consist of nine seven (97) members, three (3) of whom shall be alderpersons and six four (64) who shall be adult residents of the City. The President of the Dane County Tavern League, the Chief of Police, the chair of the Student Council of the Associated Students of Madison, and the University of Wisconsin Chancellor, or their designees, shall serve as technical advisors to the Committee. The position of chair of the Student Council of the Associated Students of Madison technical advisor shall expire three (3) years from the date of enactment. The City Clerk, the City Attorney, or their designees, and the city of Madison Alcohol Policy Coordinator (or other Mayoral designee) shall serve as staff to the Committee. Technical advisors to the Committee, upon proper recognition by the Chair, may question witnesses who appear before the Committee and may take part in debate, but shall not have a vote and shall not take part in any deliberations held in closed session.
All aldermanic appointees shall hold office for a term expiring on the third Tuesday in April in the second year following their appointment or until their successors are appointed and qualified, except that alderpersons appointed to fill an unexpired term shall only serve the remainder of such unexpired term. Resident appointments shall be made by the third Tuesday in April and such appointees shall hold office for a term expiring on the third Tuesday in April in the second year following their confirmation by the Common Council or until their successors are appointed and qualified, except that residents appointed to fill an unexpired term shall only serve the remainder of such unexpired term. Resident appointments shall all be for a term of three years.'
2. This ordinance shall become effective May 1, 2012.