PRESENTERS ANDOTHERS NOTIFIED
: Notified: City Executive Team
ATTACHMENTS
: None
BUDGET IMPACT/SOURCE OF FUNDS
: None
PRIOR COUNCIL/COMMITTEE REVIEW
: Council discussion and referral from Annual Goal Setting Retreat,January 10-11, 2009. General Government Committee review onFebruary 3, 2009.
BACKGROUND:
At the Council’s 2009 Goal Setting Retreat, several Council proceduralitems were referred to General Government Committee forrecommendations.Detailed below are the retreat referrals and General GovernmentCommittee’s recommendations.
ANALYSIS AND OPTIONS
: General Government Committee reviewed and discussed the list of issues at its meeting on Tuesday, February 3, 2009, and recommendsthe following actions. If approved by Council, the appropriate sectionsof the Council’s guidebook will be amended accordingly and a revisedGuidebook published on the City’s website.
1.
Council Committee Recommendations
Retreat Referral:
Council committee recommendations will be presented to the fullCouncil by the respective Committee Chair, not staff. If an itemdoes not have a unanimous recommendation of the Committee, itshall not be placed on the Council’s Consent Calendar. The staff report will include an explanation from the Committee Chair of the Committee’s rationale for its recommendation.
GG Recommendation:
Amend appropriate sections of the Council Guidebook to includethe change listed above from the Council retreat, with thefollowing addition:
“A Council Committee Chair may request that a specific item fromthe Committee be placed on the Council’s agenda as an ‘OtherBusiness’ item, even if Committee support is unanimous.”
General Government Committee further recommends that:
a.
A designated area be added to or identified on the transmittal(staff) report for the Committee Chair to explain theCommittee’s recommendation and rationale.b.
The General Government Committee include on its 2009Committee Work Plan a recommendation on whether or not anitem can be “stopped in Committee.” General Government
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