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COMMISSION MEMORANDUM |
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| | | | | | | | TO: | Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission | | FROM: | Raul J. Aguila, City Attorney | | DATE: | October 17, 2018 | | | First Reading
| SUBJECT: | AN ORDINANCE OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 2
OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, ENTITLED
"ADMINISTRATION," BY AMENDING ARTICLE II, ENTITLED
"CITY COMMISSION," BY AMENDING SECTION 2-12 ENTITLED
"MEETING PROCEDURES AND AGENDAS," BY AMENDING
SUBSECTION(B), ENTITLED "ORDINANCE AND CHARTER
AMENDMENT SPONSORS AND CO-SPONSORS," BY
AMENDING THE PROCEDURES REGARDING THE
SPONSORSHIP AND CO-SPONSORSHIP OF AGENDA ITEMS;
AND, BY AMENDING SUBSECTION (C)(1) TO CORRECT THE
SUB-HEADING ENTITLED "SUBMISSION OF AGENDAS";
PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION,
AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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| | | | | | | | RECOMMENDATION
| Pursuant to the request of Mayor Dan Gelber, the attached Ordinance is submitted for consideration by the City Commission on First Reading at the October 17, 2018 City Commission meeting. |
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| | | | | | | | ANALYSIS
| The amendments set forth in the attached Ordinance will provide a streamlined process for co-sponsorship to enable any member of the City Commission to co-sponsor proposed legislation without the necessity of approval from the primary sponsor. A co-sponsorship request is deemed timely requested if publically announced after an item is called for consideration at a public meeting or public hearing and before the City Commission vote on the item. A timely co-sponsorship request shall be duly recorded by the City Clerk and the co-sponsor’s name shall be included as a co-sponsor of the item. The procedure to withdraw as a co-sponsor has also been streamlined to provide for a withdrawal by announcing the withdrawal at the public meeting or public hearing where the item is to be heard and before the City Commission vote on the item, thereby eliminating the process of submitting a written request for withdrawal to the City Clerk prior to the public meeting or public hearing.
Additional minor clean-up amendments are included within the Ordinance that: a) codify the existing practice whereby resolutions, in addition to ordinances and charter amendments, may be sponsored on the same agenda by different members of the City Commission on the same subject matter, provided that the proposed resolutions, ordinances, or charter amendments contain different terms or text, and b) remove unnecessary brackets in subsection 2-12(c)(1).
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| | | | | | | | FINANCIAL INFORMATION
| As the proposed amendments regard procedural changes, no fiscal impact is expected. |
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