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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 1959-003 A RESOLUTION PRESCRIBING CERTAIN PROCEDURAL RULES FOR THE CITY COUNCIL WHEREAS, The Council h as not heretofore prescribed procedural rules for its own government as authorized by Article 1008 of the Texas Statutes; and, WHEREAS, some such rules should be adopted in the interest of orderly procedure in the conduct of the City.s business, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the following rules be adopted and observed by the Council in all of its deliberations: 1. The rules of parlimentary procedure as set out in ROBERTS RULES OF ORDER shall govern and be generally applied except in such instances as said Rules may be in conflict with any rule herein contained, in which case these rules shall apply. 2. The order of business at each regular meeting shall be: (1) Call to order; (2) Reading of the minutes of the last regular meeting and any special meetings of the Council; (3) Additions, correction and approval of minutes; (4) financial report and approval; (5) pending business carried over from last meeting; (6) new business; (7) recommendations of City Engineer; (8) recommendations of Zoning Commission; (9) recommendations of Zoning Board of Adjustment; (10) petitions, complaints or remonstrances theretofore timely filed with the City Secretary and placed on the agenda by the Mayor; (11) recess or adjournment. 3. Variation from the order of business shall be permitted only on majority vote of the Council. 4. Any three members of the Council shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any and all business. 5. The Mayor shall vote only in case of a tie. He shall approve all ordinances, or other acts of the Council requiring either his signature or approval upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the members present of the Council. It is the intention of this rule only to affirm existing rules and applicable law. ~ 6. Audience participation in the deliberations of the Council shall not be permitted except on invitiation of the Council given and extended by majority vote of the Council, and no member of the audience shall be per- mitted to address the Council until first recognized by the presiding officer. 7. When audience participation in the deliberations of the Council is given by the Council as provided in the preceding rule, 1),0 member of the audience shall be permitted to address the. Council more than one time and then not in excess of five minutes of time. 8. The Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem or other presiding officer, and no member of the Council who is present and in attendance at a Council meeting shall leave said meeting until the official recess or adjournment thereof except by a majority vote of the remaining members of the City Council; ''\--. · P titions, complaints and remonstrances may be presc1ted to the Council in writinJ only, and provided that such written petitions, complaints or remonstrances have been filed in the office of the City Secretary at least fort/-eight hours in advance of any regular stated meeting. Any such petition, complaint or remonstrance mayor may not be placed on the agenda to be considered at the succeeding regular meeting, but if not placed upon such agenda, the parties thereto shall be notified at least six hours in advance of the time fixed for such rne e tin g . 10. P~titioners and complainants when presenting their petition, complaint or remonstrance, shall select one member of their group a~ spokesman who shall present the same in not exceeding ten (10) minutes and one additional member of their group who shall be allowed to com- ment thereon for not exceeding seven (7) minutes. At the end of the allotted time no other member of the group shall be allowed to speak and the petition, complaint or remonstrance shall be deemed submitted to the Council for such further consideration as the Council shall sive to it either at that or at some subsequent regular or special meeting. If and when the Council has taken any final action thereon the City S~cretary is hereby required to advise the selected spokes- Ii~ a n 0 fan )1 9 r 0 u P b y 1 e t t e r 0 f sue h fin a 1 act ion and the r e 5 u 1 t the reo 1. 11. It shall be the duty of the Mayor or other presiding officer to enforce these rules. Failure to enforce such rules may be raised by any member of the Council by "point of order" after which the pre- siding officer shall enforce the rules or be removed as such presiding officer for the remainder of that meeting. In event of such removal of the Mayor as presiding officer the Mayor Pro Tern shall preside. In event of removal of the Mayor Pro Tem the remaining members of the Council shal1 elect a presiding officer for the remeainder of that meeting. 12. Any member of a spectator audience who refuses to abide by these rules or becomes rude, boisterious, contemptious or is guilty of other disorderly conduct ~"hall be bodily removed from the Council meet in]. 13. Any ordinance, proposed ordinance, or other matter having been presented to, considered by the Council, and acted upon, shal1 not again be considered or reconsidered within a peri~d of six (5J months except upon affirmative vote of four-fifths (4/5) of the members of the Council to suspend this rule for that purpose. 14. These rules are supplementary to any other procedural rule contained i~ any other ordinance and in any state statute, and shall be interpreted consistently therewith. 15. These rules may be amended from time to time consistently with the requirements of the business of the Council; provided, how- ever, that any proposed amendment shall first be offered at a regular meeting of the Council and sha11 not be voted upon until the next succeeding regular meeting, at which time it shall be the first order of business under the heading of "Pending Business" as prescribed in Rule No.2 of the "Order of Business" of these rules. 16. These rules shall be effective from and after their adoption. PASSED AND APPI\OVED, the 12- day of ~ , 1 5~,. ATTEST: ~~ ff~ ee a y APPR~~ __ waY~ -2-