Title
Annapolis City Council - Remote Meeting Attendance - For the purpose of allowing City Council members to participate in Council and Standing Committee meetings remotely; eliminating the five-day prior notice requirement; changing certain criteria; and generally related to City Council meeting attendance.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Ordinance 16-23
Introduced by: Alderwoman Finlayson
Co-sponsored by: Ald. Savidge
Referred to
Rules and City Government Committee
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Annapolis City Council - Remote Meeting Attendance
FOR the purpose of allowing City Council members to participate in Council and Standing Committee meetings remotely; eliminating the five-day prior notice requirement; changing certain criteria; and generally related to City Council meeting attendance.
BY repealing and reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2022 Edition
2.16.020
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
Section 2.16.020 - Place of meeting-Attendance.
2.16.020 Place of meeting-Attendance.
A. The place of meeting of the City Council shall be the room known as the council chamber of the municipal building and no meeting shall be held elsewhere except by a majority vote of all members.
B. Members shall attend all regular and special meetings of the City Council in person.
C. If a member is unable to physically attend a regularly scheduled meeting due to serious extenuating circumstances and desires to participate in the meeting by electronic means from a remote location, including voting, the member may do so with the approval of a majority of the council members present providing:
1. The member makes a written request for remote attendance to the City Council, through the Mayor, no later than five business days prior to the meeting...
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