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21-100 02/22/2021
CITY COUNCIL ACTION
Council Meeting Date: February 22, 2021
Item No: 21-100
Responsible Dept: Legal
Action Requested: Ordinance Map/Lot: N/A
Amending Chapter 9, City Council, by Amending Procedures for Appointing Council Committees and Committee
Chairs
Summary
This ordinance amendment would clarify that the Council Chair is responsible for appointing members of
standing Council committees, and that other committees are appointed as indicated in their respective sections
of the Code. The amendment would also allow the Chair to pick the members of the Personnel Committee
from the Council membership.
Committee Action
Committee: Government Operations Committee
Action:
Staff Comments & Approvals
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City Manager
Meeting Date: February 1, 2021
For:
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City Solicitor
Introduced for: First Reading and Referral
Against:
Finance Director
CITY COUNCIL ORDINANCE
Date: February 22, 2021
Assigned to Councilor: Nichols
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ORDINANCE, Amending Chapter 9, City Council, by Amending Procedures for Appointing Council Committees
and Committee Chairs
WHEREAS, in order to provide for flexibility and adaptation to circumstances, it is appropriate for the Council
Chair to be responsible for appointing members of Council committees;
WHEREAS, certain of the provisions in Chapter 9 of the Bangor City Code are outdated or do not reflect
current practice;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGOR AS FOLLOWS, THAT
Chapter 9 of the Code of the City of Bangor is amended as follows:
§ 9-1 Chair's powers and duties.
The Chair of the City Council shall have the following powers:
A. Call members to order. He-er she The Council Chair shall take the Chair at the time appointed for
meeting, call the members to order and, if a quorum is present, proceed to business.
B. Preserve order. Heor she The Council Chair shall preserve order, speak on points of order in preference
to other members and decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Council on motion
regularly seconded.
C. Declare all votes. He-os;e The Council Chair shall declare all votes, but if a vote is doubted, he-er she
the Chair shall make a return of the members voting for and against the question, without debate, and
declare the result.
D. Propound questions in order moved. He or he The Council Chair shall propound all questions in the order
in which they were moved, unless the subsequent motion shall be previous in its nature, except that in
naming sums or fixing times the largest sum and longest time shall be put first.
E. Appoint committees. Heorshe The Council Chair shall appoint all committees,
except as otherwise indicated in this Code.
F. Name member entitled to speak. nye The Council Chair shall name the member entitled to speak
when more than one member addresses the Chair at the same time.
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G. Consider motions to adjourn. He er she The Council Chair shall consider a motion to adjourn as always in
order except on immediate repetition.
H. Present petitions. ;-1e or she The Council Chair shall present all petitions and other papers addressed to
the Council, or cause them to be presented, and they shall lie on the table and be taken up in the order in
which they were presented, unless the Council shall otherwise direct.
§ 9-8 Standing committees.
B. With the exception of the Personnel Committee, each committee shall consist of three to five members
appointed by the Council Chair from the City Council membership. The Personnel Committee shall be
composed of the Council Chair and the Ehairs ef eaeh ef the ether standing eerflngitte five other
members appointed by the Council Chair from the City Council membership. Committee members shall be
appointed as soon as possible after the annual election of the Council Chair. They shall serve terms of one
year each and until their successors are appointed. The Council Chair shall also appoint one or Hgere
mmss member of each committee to serve as its Chair, with the Council Chair to serve as the Chair of
the Personnel Committee. Each committee, with the exception of the Personnel Committee, shall meet at
least once per month, unless the Chair of the committee deems a meeting unnecessary due to lack of
business. w0th the emeeptien _fthe The Personnel Committee whieh shall meet as required. A majority of
the members appointed to a committee shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of any member of a
committee, any member or members of the Council, including the Council Chair, may be designated by the
Chair of the Committee to temporarily serve as a member of the committee. Each committee shall perform
the following tasks and functions and such other tasks and functions as may be delegated to it by the City
Council from time to time.
Additions are underlined, deletions struck threugh.
IN CITY COUNCIL
FEBRUARY 22,2021
Cord 21-100
Motion made and seconded for First Reading
Vote: 9—0
Councilors Voting Yes: Davitt,Dubay,Fournier,Hawes,Nichols, Okafor, Schaefer, Sprague,Tremble
Councilors Voting No: None
Passed
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IN CITY COUNCIL
MARCH 8,2021
Cord 21-100
Motion made and seconded for Passage
Vote: 9—0
Councilors Voting Yes: Davitt,Dubay,Fournier,Hawes,Nichols, Okafor, Schaefer, Sprague,Tremble
Councilors Voting No: None
Passed
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