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Committee Report: Ordinance (Paper #49 That the Council adopt rules for 2016)
The Standing Committee on Ordinance to whom was referred Paper #49 Series of 2016, having considered the same make the following report: Committee recommends that Rules for 2016 be adopted as follows: That the Rules for 2015 be adopted with the following amendments:
- That Rule 10.02 be amended to read as follows: 10.02 In the absence of the President, the senior member present shall preside. Senior member shall mean the member with the most years of continuous service to his/her credit as a member of the present Malden City Council.
- That Rule 1 be amended to read as follows:
1.00 SCHEDULE OF COUNCIL/COMMITTEE MEETINGS
1.01 To the extent practicable, regular meetings of the City Council and City Council Committees shall be scheduled on alternate Tuesdays; provided that no regular meetings shall be scheduled on an election, a legal holiday or during the months of July and August; and provided further that the first meeting in January and September of each year and the last meeting in June and December of each year shall be a meeting of the City Council. .
1.02 Meetings of the City Council shall commence at 7:00 p.m. Meetings of City Council committees shall commence no earlier than 5:30 p.m.
1.03 A Committee of the Whole meeting shall be scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on those Tuesdays designated for Committee meetings. Committee of the Whole may conduct regular Council business only in emergency situations and under suspension of docket rules.
1.04 At the call of the President, meetings of the City Council may be held during July or August. Additional meetings of the City Council may be held at such times as the majority of the City Council may agree, and the schedule of regular meetings and committee meetings as set forth in Rule 1.01 above may be modified upon 7 days' notice.
1.05 A roll call shall be taken at the beginning of all meetings of the City Council and a...
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