City of Annapolis - File #: O-12-18

• File #: O-12-18
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed
• File created: 2/14/2018
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 3/12/2018
• Final action: 3/12/2018
• Title: Boards, Commissions, Committees and Authorities - Attendance at Meetings - For the purpose of permitting members of certain Boards, Commissions, Committees and Authorities to attend meetings via telephone conference; limiting the attendance of members via telephone conference to non-quasi-judicial government units; permitting attendance by a member via telephone conference to count toward the meeting quorum; and matters generally relating to permitting certain meeting attendance via telephone conference.
• Sponsors: Gavin Buckley
• Indexes: Rules and City Government Committee

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/19/2018	1	City Council	adopt on second reader	Pass
3/13/2018	1	Rules & City Government Committee	recommend unfavorably	Pass
3/12/2018	1	City Council	declare the public hearing closed
2/26/2018	1	City Council	adopt on first reader	Pass
2/26/2018	1	City Council	refer

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Boards, Commissions, Committees and Authorities - Attendance at Meetings - For the purpose of permitting members of certain Boards, Commissions, Committees and Authorities to attend meetings via telephone conference; limiting the attendance of members via telephone conference to non-quasi-judicial government units; permitting attendance by a member via telephone conference to count toward the meeting quorum; and matters generally relating to permitting certain meeting attendance via telephone conference.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 12-18

Introduced by: Mayor Buckley

Referred to
Rules and City Government Committee


AN ORDINANCE concerning

Boards, Commissions, Committees and Authorities - Attendance at Meetings

FOR the purpose of permitting members of certain Boards, Commissions, Committees and Authorities to attend meetings via telephone conference; limiting the attendance of members via telephone conference to non-quasi-judicial government units; permitting attendance by a member via telephone conference to count toward the meeting quorum; and matters generally relating to permitting certain meeting attendance via telephone conference.

BY repealing and re-enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2018 Edition
2.04.050


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 2.04 - GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS

Section 2.04.050 - Attendance at meetings.

All appointed members of committees, commissions, boards and authorities shall attend their respective meetings on a regular basis. For the purpose of this section, "attendance" includes the participation of a member via pre-arranged telephone conference. A member may attend a meeting via telephone conference no more than four times within one calendar year. Attendance at a meeting via telephone...