Code of Ordinances Amendment - Title 1-6A-3 - City Council Meeting Start Time Copyrighted
February 17, 2020
City of Dubuque Action Items # 2.
ITEM TITLE: Code of Ordinances Amendment Title 1-6A-3 - City
Council Meeting Start Time
SUM MARY: Pursuant to City Council direction, CityAttorney is providing
an ordinance amending the start time of City Council
meetings from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
ORDINANCE Amending City of Dubuque code of
Ordinances Title 1 Administration, Chapter 6 Mayor and
City Council,Article A Rules and Procedures, Section 1-
6A-3 Types of Meetings
SUGGESTED DISPOSITION: Suggested Disposition: Receive and File; Motion B; Motion
A
ATTACHMENTS:
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City Council Meeting Start Time-MVM Memo City Manager Memo
Staff Memo Staff Memo
Ordinance Ordinance
Suggested Motion Wording Supporting Documentation
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TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: City Council Meeting Start Time
DATE: February 7, 2020
Pursuant to City Council direction, City Attorney Crenna Brumwell has provided an
ordinance amending the start time of City Council meetings from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
This will be more responsive to public participation at regularly scheduled City Council
meetings where public participation appears on the agenda by allowing the public time
to get home after work, before attending or watching a City Council meeting. This will
also mean less special City Council meetings on non-regularly scheduled City Council
meeting nights as City Council "work sessions" can now be held from 5:30 — 6:30 p.m.
before a regularly scheduled City Council meeting.
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CRENNA M . BRUMWELL , ESQ.
CITY ATTORNEY
To: Michael C. Van Milligen
City Manager
DaTE: February 5, 2020
RE: City Council Meeting Start Time
Per discussion and direction provided at the Governance Session, I am attaching an
ordinance amending the start time of City Council meetings from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Thank you.
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY DUBUQUE, IOWA
SUITE 330, HARBOR VIEW PLACE, 300 MAIN STREET DUBUQUE, IA 52001-6944
TELEPHONE (563)589-4381 /Fax (563)583-1040/EMAi� cbrumwel@cityofdubuque.org
Prepared by: Crenna M. Brumwell, Esq. 300 Main Street Suite 330 Dubuque IA 52001 563 589-4381
ORDINANCE NO. 8-20
AMENDING CITY OF DUBUQUE CODE OF ORDINANCES TITLE 1
ADMINISTRATION, CHAPTER 6 MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, ARTICLE A RULES
AND PROCEDURE, SECTION 1-6A-3 TYPES OF MEETINGS
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
DUBUQUE, IOWA:
Section 1. Section 1-6A-3 of the City of Dubuque Code of Ordinances is amended
to read as follows:
1-6A-3: TYPES OF MEETINGS:
A. Regular Meetings: Regular meetings of the Council must be held on the first and
third Mondays of each month. However, when the first or third Monday falls upon any of
the following City holidays, such meeting must be held on the next succeeding day:
New Year's Day
Martin Luther King's Birthday
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving Day
Day after Thanksgiving
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
New Year's Eve
Unless otherwise indicated in the notice of meeting, regular meetings will commence at
six -thirty (6:30) P.M.
Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect March 1, 2020.
Passed, approved, and adopted this 17th day of Fehr ary 2020.
Roy D. Bl, Mayor
Attest:
Kev,A S.Firnstahl, CifClerk
EFFECT OF AMENDMENT
1-6A-3: TYPES OF MEETINGS:
A. Regular Meetings: Regular meetings of the Council must be held on the first and
third Mondays of each month. However, when the first or third Monday falls upon any of
the following City holidays, such meeting must be held on the next succeeding day:
New Year's Day
Martin Luther King's Birthday
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving Day
Day after Thanksgiving
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
New Year's Eve
Unless otherwise indicated in the notice of ineeting, regular meetings will commence at
� six-thirty�l� (6:3089) P.M.
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:
February 21, 2020,
and for which the charge is $16.78
Subscribed to before me, a Notary Public in and for
Dubuque County, Iowa,
this c., day of
, 20a,D.
Notary Publ. it and for Dubuque Cou ty, Iowa.
JANET K. PAPE
Commission Number 19.9059
My Comm. Exp. DEC 11, 202:2
OFFICIAL
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PUBLICATION
ORDINANCE NO: 8- 20
AMENDING CITY OF
DUBUQUE CODE OF
ORDINANCES TITLE 1 s,.
ADMINISTRATION,
CHAPTER , 6 MAYOR
AND CITY°COUNCIL,
ARTICLE A RULES'
AND PROCEDURE,
SECTION 1-6A-3
TYPES OF MEETINGS
NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY
THE CITY COUNCIL
OFDUBUTQUHEE, IOWA CITY OF li
Section 1. Section 1-
6A-3 of. the, I,City of
Dubuque Code of Ordi-
nances is amended tow
read asfollos:
1-6A-3: TYPES OF
MEETINGS:
A. 'Regular Meetings:
Regular meetings of
the.: Council must be
held' on the' first and
third Mondaysi. of each
month., However, when,
the' first or third Mon-
day fails upon any of'
the following City,holi-
days, such meeting
must be held on the
next succeeding day:
New. Year's Day
Martin Luther King's
Birthday,
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Veterans Day,
Thanksgiving Day
Day after'Thanksgiv-
ing
Christmas. Eve
Christmas Day
New Year's Eve
s
i
Unless otherwise indi-
cated in the notice of
meeting, regular meet-
ings will.commence at
six -thirty (6:30) P.M.
Section 2.'This ordi-
nance shall take effect
March 1, 2020
Passed, approved, and
adopted this 17th day
of" February 2020
Roy 0. Buol Mayor j
Attest: - -
Kevin S. Firnstahl,
City Clerk
Pu e .o i
the Telegraph Herald
newspaper on the 21st
day of February 2020.
/s/Kevin S. Firnstahl,
City Clerk
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