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COMMISSION MEMORANDUM

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.


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.

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).

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

As the proposed amendments regard procedural changes, no fiscal impact is expected.
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Office of the City Attorney
Sponsor
Mayor Dan Gelber

ATTACHMENTS:
Description
Amending Ch. 2 re- Co-sponsorships 2018 (Gelber)