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AMEND CITY COMMISSION RULES REGARDING RECONSIDERATION (B)
Resolution No. 160204
A resolution amending and restating in its entirety the rules of the City Commission to revise the rules regarding reconsideration; providing a repealing clause and providing an immediate effective date.
recommendation
The City Commission adopt the proposed Resolution.
explanation
At its meetings on May 19, June 2 and June 16, 2016, the City Commission debated its current rules concerning reconsideration which read as follows:
"After the decision of any question, it shall be in order for a member voting on the prevailing side to move reconsideration at the same meeting or at the next Regular Meeting. If the motion to reconsider is approved by a majority of those members present, the item shall be placed on a future agenda for reconsideration. In the case of a tie vote on any question, any member may move the reconsideration at the same meeting or at the next Regular Meeting. If a motion to reconsider be lost, it shall not be renewed without the unanimous approval of the Commission; and no decision shall be a second time considered."
Recognizing the City Commission is an elected, public deliberative body that may from time to time desire to change course or direction on a matter, the City Attorney's Office has prepared this resolution to amend the rules concerning reconsideration to read as follows:
"After the decision of any question, it shall be in order for any member to move reconsideration. If the motion to reconsider is approved by a majority of those members present, the item shall be placed on a future agenda for reconsideration, subject to legal, contractual, fiscal, quasi-judicial and other constraints as staff may advise the Commission."
This resolution is submitted to assist the Commission with this issue, there is no legal or policy requirement that it be adopted.