CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
Memo Date: June 25, 2020
Agenda Date: July 8, 2020
Prepared By: Carie Shealy, City Clerk
Through: Anthony Garganese, City Attorney
Requested Action:
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Ordinance No.07-2020/2nd and Final Reading: Amending Section 2-51 of the City Code to modify City Council regular meeting days from Wednesday to TuesdayEnd
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BACKGROUND:
In 2018, the City Council its regular monthly meeting schedule from Tuesday to the Second and Fourth Wednesday. Additionally, other City board meeting schedules were adjusted to accommodate this change. However, at the Regular City Council meetings held on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 and June 10, 2020, the idea of moving Regular City Council meetings from Wednesday back to Tuesday was raised and briefly discussed by the City Council. The City Council directed that the City Attorney and Staff review the City Council's legal authority to amend the regular meeting day, review the impact on the current City board calendar and to report back to the City Council so the Council could consider whether or not to amend the regular meeting day.
Article III, Section 12(b) of the City Charter provides that the City Council shall meet regularly at such times and places as may be prescribed by ordinance, but in no event less than once each month. Pursuant to the requirements of the City Charter, the City Council has established regular City Council meeting times in accordance with Section 2-51 of the City Code, which currently requires that regular City Council meetings shall be held every second and fourth Wednesday of each and every month. Specifically, Section 2-51 provides:
Section 2-51(a): Time, place for regular meetings; procedure for cancelling meetings and calling special meetings.
"The regular meetings of the city council shall be held in the council meeting room in the municipal city hall building, such building being a publicly owned facility within the city limits, at 6:00 p.m. every second and fou...
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