City of Madison - File #: 82573

• File #: 82573
• Version: 2
• Name: Create Housing Policy Committee
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Council New Business
• File created: 3/19/2024
• In control: HOUSING STRATEGY COMMITTEE
• On agenda: 5/7/2024
• Final action: 5/7/2024
• Enactment #: ORD-24-00028
• Title: SUBSTITUTE: Repealing Sections 32.03 and 33.34, Creating 33.23, and Amending Sections 3.12, 32.04, and 32.18 of the Madison General Ordinances to combine the duties of Landlord and Tenant Issues Committee and Housing Strategy Committee into the newly formed Housing Policy Committee.
• Sponsors: Yannette Figueroa Cole, Juliana R. Bennett, Nikki Conklin, Jael Currie, MGR Govindarajan

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/7/2024	2	COMMON COUNCIL
3/28/2024	1	HOUSING STRATEGY COMMITTEE	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
3/21/2024	1	LANDLORD AND TENANT ISSUES COMMITTEE
3/19/2024	1	HOUSING STRATEGY COMMITTEE	Referred
3/19/2024	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Referred
3/18/2024	1	Attorney's Office	Referred for Introduction

Fiscal Note
No City appropriation required.
Title
SUBSTITUTE: Repealing Sections 32.03 and 33.34, Creating 33.23, and Amending Sections 3.12, 32.04, and 32.18 of the Madison General Ordinances to combine the duties of Landlord and Tenant Issues Committee and Housing Strategy Committee into the newly formed Housing Policy Committee.
Body
DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: This ordinance combines the duties of the current Landlord and Tenant Issues Committee and Housing Strategy Committee into one new committee called the Housing Strategy Committee. In order to merge these two committees into one, this ordinance creates the new committee, repeals the ordinances for the existing committees, and amends remaining ordinances that reference the repealed committees as needed.

The substitute clarifies that this ordinance will take effect on November 15, 2024.

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

1. Section 33.23 entitled “Housing Policy Committee” of the Madison General
Ordinances is created to read as follows:

33.23 - HOUSING POLICY COMMITTEE
(1) Creation. This ordinance creates a Housing Policy Committee for the City of Madison.
(2) Membership. The Housing Policy Committee shall consist of nine (9) members appointed by the Mayor and subject to approval by the Common Council. Two (2) members shall be alders. The other members shall be resident members that bring, collectively, a variety of different perspectives and experience on issues affecting housing, including its production and management, financing, purchase or lease. Members shall serve without compensation. The members shall annually elect non-Council members to serve as chairperson and vice-chairperson, however, the initial chairperson shall be selected by the Mayor. The Mayor shall strive to appoint members drawn from the following portions of the community: neighborhood groups, tenant organizations...