Code of Ordinances Amendment - Title 2 Environmental Stewardship Advisory Commission Copyright 2014
City of Dubuque Action Items # 11.
ITEM TITLE: Code of Ordinances Amendment - Title 2 Boards and Commissions,
Chapter 6 Environmental Stewardship Advisory Commission
SUMMARY: City Manager recommending approval of an amendment to the City of
Dubuque ordinance for the Environmental Stewardship Advisory
Commission.
ORDINANCE — Amending City of Dubuque Code of Ordinances Title 2
Boards and Commissions, Chapter 6 Environmental Stewardship Advisory
Commission, Section 2-6-12 Removal, By Eliminating The Public Hearing
Requirement For Removal Of A Commissioner
SUGGESTED DISPOSITION: Suggested Disposition: Receive and File; Motion B; Motion A
ATTACHMENTS:
Description Type
❑ Environmental Stewardship Advisory Commission-MVM Memo City Manager Memo
❑ Staff Memo Staff Memo
❑ Ordinance Ordinance
THE CITY OF Dubuque
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TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: Boards and Commissions — Environmental Stewardship Advisory
Commission
DATE: May 12, 2015
The City Attorney's Office and the City Clerk's Office have been working on updating
the Boards and Commissions ordinances to make the standard provisions in all of the
ordinances uniform and consistent.
Assistant City Attorney Crenna Brumwell recommends City Council approval of an
amendment to the City of Dubuque ordinance for the Environmental Stewardship
Advisory Commission. As members of the Boards and Commissions are not officers
per Iowa Code, the public hearing requirement is being removed.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
Mic ael C. Van Milligen
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Attachment
cc: Barry Lindahl, City Attorney
Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager
Teri Goodmann, Assistant City Manager
Crenna Brumwell, Assistant City Attorney
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CRENNA M . BRUMWELL , ESQ. //11 /� /�
ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY n I/ / I/ /
To: Michael C. Van Milligen I�,.Ji`' Ill
City Manager
DATE: May 8, 2015
RE: Boards and Commissions — Environmental Stewardship Advisory
Commission
The City Attorney's Office, together with the City Clerk's Office and each individual
department, have been working on updating the Boards and Commissions ordinances
for the City of Dubuque. The goal is to make the standard provisions in all of the
ordinances uniform and consistent.
Attached please find a draft ordinance for the Environmental Stewardship Advisory
Commission, which eliminates the public hearing requirement for removal of a member.
Iowa Code §372.15 only requires a public hearing for removal of officers. As members
of the Boards and Commissions are not officers per Iowa Code, the public hearing
requirement is being removed.
I recommend that the ordinance be submitted to the City Council for consideration.
Please let me know if you need further information.
Thank you.
Prepared by: Crenna M. Brumwell, Esq. 300 Main Street Suite 330 Dubuque IA 52001 563 589-4381
ORDINANCE NO. 30-15
AMENDING CITY OF DUBUQUE CODE OF ORDINANCES TITLE 2 BOARDS AND
COMMISSIONS, CHAPTER 6 ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP ADVISORY
COMMISSION, SECTION 2-6-12 REMOVAL, BY ELIMINATING THE PUBLIC
HEARING REQUIREMENT FOR REMOVAL OF A COMMISSIONER
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY. COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
DUBUQUE, IOWA:
Section 1. Section 2-6-12 of the City of Dubuque Code of Ordinances is hereby
amended as follows:
2-6-12: REMOVAL:
Except as provided in 2-6-10(D)(1), the city council may remove any commissioner for
good cause.
Section 2. This Ordinance takes effect upon publication.
Passed, approved, and adopted thei 8 t day of May, 2015.
I Lynn V. Sutton, Mayor Pro Tem
Attest:
EFFECT OF AMENDMENT
2-6-12: REMOVAL:
Except as provided in 2-6-10(D)(1), tThe city council may remove any commissioner for
good cause 61POR Fi#e„ GhaFgeG and ,ffe. a r„hr,. he,.;,,,.
STATE OF IOWA {SS:
DUBUQUE COUNTY
CERTIFICATION OF PUBLICATION
I, Suzanne Pike, a Billing Clerk for Woodward Communications, Inc., an Iowa corporation, publisher
of the Telegraph Herald,a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Dubuque, County
of Dubuque and State of Iowa; hereby certify that the attached notice was published in said newspaper
on the following dates: May 22, 2015, and for which the charge is $10.90.
Subscribed to before m-, a Notary Public in and for Dubuque County, Iowa,
this T 1 day of
OFFICIAL
PUBLICATION
ORDINANCE NO. 30-15
AMENDING CITY OF
DUBUQUE CODE OF
ORDINANCES TITLE 2
BOARDS AND COM
'MISSIONS,; CHAPTER
6 ENVIRONMENTAL
STEWARDSHIP ADVI-,I
SORY COMMISSION,
SECTION 2-6-12 , RE-
MOVAL, BY ELIMIN-
ATING THE PUBLIC
HEARING REQUIRE-
MENT FOR REMOVAL
OF A COMMISSIONER
NOW, THEREFORE, BE
IT ORDAINED BY THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF 'DUBUQUE,
IOWA:
Section 1. Section 2-6-
12 of the City of
Dubuque Code of
Ordinances ,is hereby
amended as follows:
2-6-12: REMOVAL:
Except as provided in
2-6-10(D)(1), the city
council may remove
any commissioner for
good cause.
.Section 2. This
Ordinance takes effect
upon publication.
Passed, approved,
and adopted the 18th
day of May, 2015.
/s/Lynn V. Sutton,
Mayor Pro Tem -i
,20 /5- .
Notary Public in and for Dubuque County, Iowa.
Att/sei.�
FirnstahLest: City;/KvClerk
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Published officially in
the :Telegraph' Herald
newspaper on ,the 22nd
day of May, 2015.
Attest: /s/Kevin S.
Firnstahl, City Clerk
It 5/22
MARY K. WESTERMEYER
Commission Number 154885
My Comm, Exp. FEB. 1, 2017