Amend Ch2 Art1 Addressing Council and Amend Ch2 Art5 Sec2-58 Addressing Requirements of Entities of Municipial Code

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Ordinance Amending Chapter 2 of the SBMC Page 3 administrative and legislative branches, have the proposed resolution or ordinance signed by the Chairperson of the Standing Committee which has ~unsdiction over the subject matter addressed in the proposed legislation. (6) The party initiating any legislation which is amended during the Common Council's public hearing, must file a complete original of such amended legislation with the Office of the City Clerk, by the next business day. ('~ If the proposed ordinance is passed by the Common Council and approved by the Mayor, the City Clerk's Office shall assign it an ordinance number. Section II. Chapter 2, Article 1, Section 2-10 of the South Bend Municipal Code shall be amended to read in its entirety as follows: Sec. 2-10 Eleven (11) Standing Committees of the Common Council; Powers and Duties. (a) There shall be eleven (11) standing committees organized within the Common Council. Each standing committee, except the Council Rules Committee, shall consist of not less than three (3) Council Members. Council Members shall be appointed to each committee by the Council President at the beginning of each calendar yeaz. (b) Each standing committee, except the Council Rules Committee, shall have not less than one (1) citizen member and at no time shall the number of citizen members constitute more than one third (1/3) of the total membership of each standing committee. (c) A person desiring to serve as a citizen member of any of the Council's standing committees, except the Council Rules Committee, must have been a resident of the City of South Bend for not less than one (1) year prior to being considered for appointment. City residency shall be a continuing requirement for membership on all such standing committees. Citizen members shall serve without compensation for one-year terms, with each appointment expiring by the first meeting of the succeeding calendar year of such appointment. (d) Citizen members shall be appointed by the Chairperson of each standing committee. In making such appointments, the Chairperson shall assure that the citizen members are broadly representattve of the South Bend Community. (e) Upon appointment, the Chairperson shall see that each such citizen member so has on file with the Office of the City Clerk the citizen member's: name, residential address, residential telephone number, business telephone number, and email address. (f) The Office of the City Clerk shall send to each citizen member, notices of all Committee meetings to which they aze appointed, along with copies of proposed resolutions or ordinances sent to such Committee for review and recommendation no later than t<vo (2) business days prior to the Committee meeting. (g) Any citizen member vacancy of a standing committee shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment. A vacancy shall be deemed to exist upon the occurrence of any one (1) of the following conditions: