NUMB:
950571
VERS:
SUBSTITUTE 1
REF:
XXBY:
ALD. HENNINGSEN
TITL:
A substitute charter ordinance relating to a
procedure for appropriations and ordinances.
SECS:
4-21 am
ANLS:
- Analysis -
Currently the charter provides that resolutions
appropriating money and all ordinances may only be
acted on by the common council on the report of the
committee to which the same were referred. This
amendment would permit council action on such matters
after the holding of a public hearing on those
matters.
BODY:
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee
do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 4-21 of the city charter is amended
to read:
4-21. Appropriations and Ordinances; Procedure. All
resolutions appropriating money, or creating any
charge against any of the funds of said city, and all
accounts and ordinances, shall be referred to
appropriate committees and shall only be acted on by
the common council at a subsequent meeting not held
on the same day, [[on the report of]] >>after a
public hearing by<< the committee to which the same
were referred; provided, however, that when a
committee shall report by resolution upon a matter
referred to them by the common council, action upon
such resolution may, in the discretion of the
council, be taken without a further reference; and,
in either case, if the report is made upon an
ordinance or resolution appropriating money out of,
or creating any charge against any of the funds
aforesaid, said report shall be countersigned by the
city comptroller, and said comptroller shall not
countersign any such report, unless there is a
sufficient portion of the proper city fund
unappropriated to meet said appropriation or charge.
Action upon any report of a committee made to the
common council, shall be deferred to the next regular
meeting of the same by request of 1/5 of the aldermen
present. And no portion of any city fund shall be
transferred to, or borrowed from, o...
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