Fiscal Note
No City appropriation required.
Title
Amending Section 2.30(2) of the Madison General Ordinances to change the time limit for speakers at a public hearing.
Body
DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: This proposed ordinance changes the time limit for speakers at a public hearing from five (5) minutes to (3) three minutes.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Subsection (2) of Section 2.30 entitled “Public Hearings” of the Madison General Ordinances is amended as follows:
“(2) Each speaker is limited to five (5) three (3) minutes, unless the Common Council agrees by a ⅔ vote to extend the time, provided, that a speaker who requires an interpreter, either because of his/her limited English proficiency or because of a disability, may speak for ten (10) six (6) minutes.”