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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAmending Chapter 2 AdministrationORDINANCE NO. 5484 -73 Passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana. '�-, IRENE K. GAMMON Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of South Bend, Clerk Of Common Council IRENE K. GAMMON Approved and signed by me �f-„ .P-1 12 Ig '23 Clerk ORDINANCE NO. 5484 -73 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ADMINISTRATION, OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND. SECTION I. The following sections of the Municipal Code of the City of South Bend shall be amended to read as follows, to -wit: Sec. 2 -3. Organization meeting of Common Council; officers; elections; terms. The members -elect of the Common Council shall hold their first regular meeting on the first Monday in January after their election at the hour of 7:30 P.M. in the Council chamber. At this meeting they shall choose from the members a presiding officer or presi- dent and a presiding officer pro tempore or vice - president, which officers shall serve until noon of the first Monday in January of the next succeeding year. Their successors shall be chosen to serve for one (1) year on or before the first Monday of the next succeeding year. Sec. 2 -4. of Common Council, The regular meetings of the Common Council shall be held at the Council chamber on the second and fourth Monday evenings of each month at the hour of 8:00 P.M. If any regular meeting date falls on a holiday established by State law the Council, at its election at the last preceding regular meeting, may meet on the regular meeting date or the next succeeding night. The regular meeting may be re- scheduled for any date or time by majority vote of the Council. At the hour named, the President shall call the Common Council to order, and if he is absent, the Vice - President shall act in his stead. If the latter is absent, any member of the Common Council may, upon motion, be called to the chair, and act as presiding officer only until the arrival of one entitled to preside. Sec. 2 -10. Standing committees of Common Council; powers and duties. (a) There shall be eleven (11) standing committees in the Common Council, which shall consist of not less than three (3) members each, and shall be appointed as herein provided by the President of the Common Council, which committees shall be as follows: (1) Ways and Means. (2) Administration and Finance. (3) Law. (4) Public Works. (5) Public Safety. (6) Human Resources and Economic Development. (7) Parks and Recreation. (8) Ordinances. (9) Fees and Salaries. (10) Elections. (11) On supervision and inspection of minutes, of which committee the President of the Common Council shall be chairman. (b) The first named member of each committee shall be chairman, and in his absence the next named member. (c) The committee shall meet on the call of any two (2) of its members in case the chairman is absent or declines to call such meeting. (d) A special committee, when its report (if made) is disposed of and it has no other business, stands dissolved without motion; but an affirmative vote on recommitment has the effect of reviving such committee. (e) The report of a minority of a committee shall be regarded as an amendment to or substitute for the report of the committee. (f) When any matter has been referred to a committee, the councilman introducing the same shall have the right to meet with such committee during its deliberations thereon, but shall not vote. (g) A committee may not erase, interline or blot any ordinance, resolution or other paper referred to it; but must enter upon a separate paper any amendments it may propose, stating the words which it is proposed to insert or omit, and make reference to page, line and words of the original paper. (h) The committee on ordinances shall act as committee on engrossed ordinances and phraseology of ordinances. (i) All reports of committee shall be in writing, and majority reports shall be signed by a majority of the members thereof. Sec. 2 -12. Council meetings; order of business. (a) Business shall be taken up in the following order, unless the Council, by a two - thirds (2/3) vote, shall suspend the rule: (1) Minutes of last meeting. (2) Reports of standing committees. (3) Reports of select committees. (4) Reports from departments. (5) Reports from City officers. (6) Petitions and miscellaneous matters. (7) Ordinances on second reading. (8) Resolutions. (9) Ordinances on first reading. (10) Privilege of the floor. (11) Unfinished business. (12) New business. (13) Adjournment. SECTION II. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption by the Common Council and its approval by the Mayor. pp'-� , .. Member of - •. Passed February 12, 1973, as amended. -2- tbomututrr Report ialo tke Tommou (90um -tt of t4f Tity of ovut4 wrtu): Your Committee of the Whole to whom was referred AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ADMINISTRATION, OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND. Respectfully report that they have examined the matter and that in their opinion the Ordinance should go to the Council as favorable. Odell Newburn Chairman FRCi lRQti r lU9LIf MIND CO.