File #: O-17-23    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 4/20/2023 In control: City Council
On agenda: 9/26/2023 Final action: 9/26/2023
Title: Administration - Requiring the City Manager to Provide Staffing Impact Statements on Pending Legislation - For the purpose of requiring staffing reports on charter amendments, ordinances, and resolutions that include the impact of the legislation on staffing levels and duties; changing when staff reports regarding legislation must be submitted to the Council; making clarifying changes to the impacted subsections; and generally related to City Council procedure.
Sponsors: Sheila Finlayson, Ross Arnett
Indexes: Rules and City Government Committee
Attachments: 1. O-17-23 First Reader, 2. O-17-23 Amendment 1 - Finlayson, 3. O-17-23 Amendment 2 - Finlayson, 4. O-17-23 Amendment 2A - Arnett, 5. O-17-23 Amendment 3 - Arnett, 6. O-17-23 Legislative Summary, 7. O-17-23 Fiscal Impact Note, 8. O-17-23 Staff Report, 9. O-17-23 Signed (b&w), 10. O-17-23 Signed (color)
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Administration - Requiring the City Manager to Provide Staffing Impact Statements on Pending Legislation - For the purpose of requiring staffing reports on charter amendments, ordinances, and resolutions that include the impact of the legislation on staffing levels and duties; changing when staff reports regarding legislation must be submitted to the Council; making clarifying changes to the impacted subsections; and generally related to City Council procedure.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 17-23

Introduced by: Alderwoman Finlayson
Co-Sponsored by: Ald. Arnett

Referred to
Rules and City Government Committee

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Administration - Requiring the City Manager to Provide Staffing Impact Statements on Pending Legislation

FOR the purpose of requiring staffing reports on charter amendments, ordinances, and resolutions that include the impact of the legislation on staffing levels and duties; changing when staff reports regarding legislation must be submitted to the Council; making clarifying changes to the impacted subsections; and generally related to City Council procedure.

BY repealing and re-enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2022 Edition
2.16.090

SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:

TITLE 2 - ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 2.16 - City Council
Article 1 - Rules of Procedure
Section 2.16.090 - Reading, amendment and passage of ordinances, etc.


2.16.090(B)

B. Standing Committee and Planning Commission Reviews.
1. Standing Committees.
a. Any ordinance or resolution waiving or reducing city fees shall be referred to the Finance Committee at the meeting of its introduction.
b. With the exception of referrals to the Planning Commission, all ordinances, resolutions and charter amendments shall be discharged without the necessity of a motion from any committ...

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