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File #: 78594    Version: Name: Alder Five-Day Notice
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/27/2023 In control: Attorney's Office
On agenda: 8/1/2023 Final action: 8/1/2023
Enactment date: 8/11/2023 Enactment #: ORD-23-00076
Title: SUBSTITUTE: Amending Section 2.025 of the Madison General Ordinances to Remove the Notification Requirement if an Alder will be Absent from the City for Five or More Days.
Sponsors: Yannette Figueroa Cole, John W. Duncan, Derek Field, Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford
Attachments: 1. 78594-Section 2.025.pdf, 2. 78549-Version 1
Fiscal Note
No fiscal impact.
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SUBSTITUTE: Amending Section 2.025 of the Madison General Ordinances to Remove the Notification Requirement if an Alder will be Absent from the City for Five or More Days.
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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: This ordinance removes the current requirement that an alder notify the Common Council Office if they will be absent from the City for five or more consecutive days.

The Substitute requires alders to notify the Common Council Office if they will be absent from a meeting of the Common Council. It also requires alders to notify a City board, commission, or committee and/or the Common Council Office if they will be absent from a sub-unit meeting.

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

1. Section 2.025 entitled “Notification of Absence of Members” of the Madison General Ordinances is amended as follows:

“2.025 NOTIFICATION OF ABSENCE OF MEMBERS.
Every alderperson who for whatever reason cannot attend a regularly scheduled meeting of the Common Council shall notify Common Council Office staff of such absence by 9:00 a.m. the Thursday prior to the meeting in question; Common Council Office staff shall then notify the City Clerk of the absence. All such excused absences shall be entered in the record of the Common Council as excused. In cases where unavoidable circumstances make such advance notice of absence impossible, the notification of excused absence shall be filed with the City Clerk within one week of the absence and entered in the record of the Common Council. Any alderperson who because of an emergency cannot file prior notification of absence may be excused by orally notifying, at any time prior to or during the meeting, an alderperson or the City Clerk who shall so advise the Common Council. Any alderperson who will be absent from the City for five (5) or more consecutive days shall notify the Common Co...

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