Code of Ordinances Amendment - Title 5 Transit Advisory Board Copyright 2014
City of Dubuque Action Items # 13.
ITEM TITLE: Code of Ordinances Amendment - Title 5 Transit System, Chapter 1
Transit Advisory Board
SUMMARY: City Manager recommending approval of an amendment to the City of
Dubuque ordinance for the Transit Advisory Board.
ORDINANCE - Amending City of Dubuque Code of Ordinances Title 5
Transit System, Chapter 1 Transit Advisory Board, Section 5-1-12
Removal, by Eliminating the Public Hearing Requirement for Removal of a
Member
SUGGESTED DISPOSITION: Suggested Disposition: Receive and File; Motion B; Motion A
ATTACHMENTS:
Description Type
❑ Transit Advisory Board-MVM Memo City Manager Memo
❑ Staff Memo Staff Memo
❑ Ordinance Ordinance
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TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: Boards and Commissions —Transit Advisory Board
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 Transit Advisory Board. 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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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 /� /�
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To: Michael C. Van Milligen I�,.Ji`' Ill
City Manager
DATE: May 8, 2015
RE: Boards and Commissions —Transit Advisory Board
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 Transit Advisory Board, 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. 32-15
AMENDING CITY OF DUBUQUE CODE OF ORDINANCES TITLE 5 TRANSIT
SYSTEM, CHAPTER 1 TRANSIT ADVISORY BOARD, SECTION 5-1-12 REMOVAL,
BY ELIMINATING THE PUBLIC HEARING REQUIREMENT FOR REMOVAL OF A
MEMBER
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
DUBUQUE, IOWA:
Section 1. Section 5-1-12 of the City of Dubuque Code of Ordinances is hereby
amended as follows:
Except as provided in 5-1-10(D)(1), the city council may remove any member for good
cause.
Section 2. This Ordinance takes effect upon publication.
Passed, approved, and adopted the 18th day of May, 2015.
Attest:
Ken S. Firnstahl, Cit Ierk
Lynn V. Sutton, Mayor Pro Tem
EFFECT OF AMENDMENT
5-1-12: REMOVAL:
Except as provided in 5-1-10(D)(1), the city council may remove any member for good
cause 61POR Fi#e„ GhaFgeG and a#e. 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 $10.25.
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Subscribed to before me, a Notary Public in and for Dubuque County, Iowa,
this c,ne4 day of
de-
, 20 /5 .
OFFICIAL
PUBLICATION
ORDINANCE NO. 32-15
AMENDING CITY OF
DUBUQUE ,CODE OF
ORDINANCES TITLE 5
'TRANSIT SYSTEM,
CHAPTER 1 TRANSIT
ADVISORY ;> BOARD,
SECTION . 5-1-12 RE-
MOVAL, BY ELIMIN-
ATING THE PUBLIC '!
HEARING 'REQUIRE-
MENT FOR REMOVAL
OFA MEMBER
,
IT ORDAINED BY THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THEW,
CITY NI
OF DUTHEREFOkEBUQUE,BE,
IOWA:
Section 1. Section 5-1-
12 of the City of
Dubuque Code of
Ordinances is. hereby
amended as follows:"
Except as provided in
5-1-10(D)(1), the city
council may remove
any member 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 Tern
Attest: /s/Kevin S.
Firnstahl, City Clerk
Published officially in
the Telegraph 'Herald
newspaper, on the 22nd
day of May, 2015.
Attest: /s/Kevin S.
Firnstahl, City Clerk
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Notary Public in and for Dubuque County, Iowa.
MARY K. WESTERMEYER
Commission Number 154885
My Comm, Exp, FEB. 1, 2017