Code of Ordinances Amendment - Title 6 Housing Code Appeal Board Copyright 2014
City of Dubuque Action Items # 15.
ITEM TITLE: Code of Ordinances Amendment - Title 6 Health, Housing, Sanitation and
Environment, Chapter 6 Housing Regulations
SUMMARY: City Manager recommending approval of an amendment to the City of
Dubuque ordinance for the Housing Code Appeals Board.
ORDINANCE - Amending City of Dubuque Code of Ordinances Title 6
Health, Housing, Sanitation and Environment, Chapter 6 Housing
Regulations, Section 6-6-8 Housing Code Appeals Board, 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
❑ Housing Code Appeals 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 — Housing Code Appeals 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 Housing Code Appeals 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 — Housing Code Appeals 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 Housing Code Appeals 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. 34-15
AMENDING CITY OF DUBUQUE CODE OF ORDINANCES TITLE 6 HEALTH,
HOUSING, SANITATION AND ENVIRONMENT, CHAPTER 6 HOUSING
REGULATIONS, SECTION 6-6-8 HOUSING CODE APPEALS BOARD, 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 6-6-8 of the City of Dubuque Code of Ordinances is hereby
amended as follows:
6-6-8: HOUSING CODE APPEALS BOARD:
L. Removal: Except as provided in J(4)(a), 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.
Lynn V. Sutton, Mayor Pro Tem
Attest:
Kevi S. Firnstahl, City lerk
EFFECT OF AMENDMENT
6-6-8: HOUSING CODE APPEALS BOARD:
L. Removal: Except as provided in J(4)(a), the city council may remove any
member for good cause .
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 $11.77.
Subscribed to before me a Notary Public in and for Dubuque County, Iowa,
this „yvai day of
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Notary Public in and for Dubuque County, Iowa.
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OFFICIAL
PUBLICATION
ORDINANCE NO. 34-15
AMENDING CITY OF
DUBUQUE CODE OF
ORDINANCES TITLE 6
HEALTH,' HOUSING,
SANITATION '' AND
ENVIRONMENT,
CHAPTER 6 HOUSING
REGULATIONS, SEC-
TION 6-6-8 HOUSING
CODE APPEALS
BOARD, 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 6-6-
8 of the City of
Dubuque Code of
Ordinances is hereby
amended as follows:
6-6-8: HOUSING CODE
APPEALS BOARD:
L.'RemovaC Except
as provided in 1(4)(a),
MARY K. WESTERMEYER
Commission Number 154685
My Comm, Exp, FEB, 1, 2017
the city council may''.
remove ar(y member
for good cause.
Section 2. ( This
Ordinance takes effect
upon' publication.
Passed, approved,
and adopted the 18th1+,
day of May, 2015.
/s/Lynn. V. Sutton,
Mayor Pro Tem
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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