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Staff Report for a City Council Rules Committee Discussion of Potential Changes to the City Council Member Handbook
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff presents for the City Council Rules Committee's consideration the following summary of potential edits and changes to various elements of the City Council Handbook that relate to City Council procedures and protocols. The suggested edits are to bring the Handbook up to date with current City Council practices and policies as well as to address minor grammatical and spelling errors. Staff recommends that the City Council Rules Committee consider this information and provide direction to staff.
Section I: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
Minor formatting edits for consistency with current practices and approved ordinances.
Outside Governmental Appointments
The following language was added:
* If appointed, any travel associated with an outside governmental appointment will be taken from the Councilmember's travel budget.
Reimbursement for Expenses
The following was added at the end:
City budgets are set per cost account and the monies are not transferrable between budget accounts.
Council Goals and Priorities
Updated to be consistent with current practices of Council Goal Setting workshops meeting Bi-Annually and adding the title to "Item 13" Council Requests for Future Items.
Section II: MEETINGS
Various edits to a few sections to update the information to be consistent with current practices, that were previously approved by Council but not updated in the Handbook.
Section III: AGENDA
Update to City Council meeting agendas to be consistent with how the meetings flow:
1. CALL TO ORDER
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL
2. ANNOUNCEMENTS
3. RECOGNITIONS
Item 1, Call to Order will now include the Pledge of Allegiance and Roll Call. Item 2 will now be Announcements, a time when the City Clerk will make any necessary announcements and the Mayor, City Manager and City Attorney may also m...
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