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File #: 67061    Version: Name: Clarify Process for Designating Location and Means of Council Meetings
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 8/20/2021 In control: Attorney's Office
On agenda: 10/5/2021 Final action: 10/5/2021
Enactment date: 10/19/2021 Enactment #: ORD-21-00066
Title: SUBSTITUTE - Amending Sections 2.01 and 2.15 of the Madison General Ordinances to clarify the process for designating a location and the means of conducting individual Common Council meetings.
Sponsors: Keith Furman, Yannette Figueroa Cole, Juliana R. Bennett, Grant Foster
Attachments: 1. 67061 version 1.pdf, 2. 67061 version 2 Substitute.pdf
Fiscal Note
No City appropriation required.
Title
SUBSTITUTE - Amending Sections 2.01 and 2.15 of the Madison General Ordinances to clarify the process for designating a location and the means of conducting individual Common Council meetings.
Body
These ordinance amendments allow Common Council meetings to be held in-person or telephonically or electronically based upon a determination of the Mayor and Council President, subject to a vote of the Common Council.

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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: These ordinance amendments allow Common Council meetings to be held in-person or telephonically or electronically based upon a determination of the Mayor and Council President, subject to a vote of the Common Council.

This substitute ordinance requires the location and means of conducting Common Council meetings to be designated on the annual meeting schedule, subject to Council decisions to change the location and means by specific deadlines. The substitute also authorizes the Mayor and Council President to alter the location of a meeting in the event of exigent circumstances, such as inclement weather or the unavailability of a meeting location.

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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:

1. Section 2.01 entitled “Meetings” of the Madison General Ordinances is amended as follows:
“2.01 - MEETINGS.
(1) The stated meeting of the Common Council shall be held in the Council Chambers, or at a location or by a means determined pursuant to Section 2.15 of the Madison General Ordinances, 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. A special November meeting or meetings will be held for the Capital and Operating Budgets. Following a regular City of Madison election, the newly elected Com...

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