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Committee Report Rules Committee To the Common Council of the City of South Bend The February 14, 1994 meeting of the Council Rules Committee was called to order by Council President Ann Puzzello at 3 : 35 p.m. in the Council Informal Meeting room. Persons in attendance included Council Members Luecke, Washington Kelly, Puzzello, Slavinskas, Coleman , Duda, and Ladewski; Irene Gammon, Jo Ann Harper, William Eagen, Joyce Boyler, Ann Brunnell, John Broden, Don Porter, and Kathleen Cekanski-Farrand. Council Member Puzzello noted that the purpose of the meeting was to; review Bill No. 5-94 which would make changes to Chapter 2 of the South Bend Municipal Code. She noted that there were five (5) basic changes being recommended t? the Council. The first was in Section 2-3 which would change the organizational meeting time from noon to 7 : 00 p.m. The second change was in Section 2-9 of the Code which would require, when possible, the Chairperson of the Standing Committee having jurisdiction over the subject matter of purposed legislation to sign in that purposed Ordinance. The third change was to Section 2-10 which would require the City Clerk's Office to send notice along with copies of purposed legislation to citizen members. The next change was to Section 2-10 which would change the titles of various Standing Committees of the Common Council to better reflect there duties. The last change was to enact new Section 2-58 which would require annual notification of all Board and Commission Members of their memberships, date of appointment, dates and times of their regular meetings. Council Member Luecke suggested that the Human Resources and Economic Development Committee be changed to be called the "Community and Economic Development Committee" . Council Member Slavinskas made a motion to that effect, seconded by Council Member Washington, and the motion passed. Following further discussion, Council Member Slavinskas made a motion to change the meeting time from 7: 00 p.m. to 5: 00 p.m. and to change the word "legislation" and to "Bills" in Section 2-10 (c) the motion was seconded by Council Member Washington. The City Clerk voiced concern over sending copies to the citizen members. The motion passed. Council Member Duda noted that notification to citizen members is critical, however she suggested that they pick up their packets since Council Members are required to do so.