City of Milwaukee - File #: 911335

• File #: 911335
• Version: 2
• Type: Motion
• Status: Placed On File
• File created: 10/15/1991
• In control: STEERING & RULES COMMITTEE
• Final action: 12/19/2003
• Title: Substitute motion amending the Common Council Procedure and Rules relating to Common Council committee structure.
• Sponsors: ALD. FRANK
• Indexes: COMMITTEES, COMMON COUNCIL, COMMON COUNCIL RULES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
12/19/2003	2	COMMON COUNCIL	PLACED ON FILE	Pass	16:0
12/4/2003	2	STEERING & RULES COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PLACING ON FILE	Pass	6:0
6/4/1998	0	STEERING & RULES COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
6/4/1998	0	STEERING & RULES COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
7/15/1993	2	STEERING & RULES COMMITTEE
5/14/1992	2	STEERING & RULES COMMITTEE	Minutes note: New file to be prepared to further study this matter.

NUMB:
911335
VERS:
SUBSTITUTE 2
REF:

XXBY:
ALD. FRANK
TITL:
Substitute motion amending the Common Council Procedure and Rules relating to Common Council committee structure.
ANLS:
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- Analysis -

This motion amends the Common Council Procedure and Rules relating to the Common Council committee structure by:

1.Eliminating the Steering and Rules Committee and creating a Budget and Rules Committee which shall have jurisdiction over the annual city budget, Common Council Procedure and Rules, extraordinary matters not covered by any standing committee and long range planning.

2.Eliminating and/or restructuring the 7 current standing Common Council committees (Economic Development, Finance and Personnel, Judiciary and Legislation, Public Improvements, Public Safety, Utilities and Licenses, and Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development) and creating 4 standing committees: Neighborhoods and Economic Development, Licensing and Government Operations, Public Safety and Public Works.

3.Providing that each standing committee shall consider all issues, including budgetary matters, relating to those departments under their jurisdiction.

4.Providing that each standing committee shall consist of 7 members; standing committee chairs shall serve only on their standing committees and as members of the Budget and Rules Committee; the Common Council president shall serve only as the chair of the Budget and Rules Committee; and the remaining 12 Common Council members shall each serve on 2 standing committees.

5.Providing that the mayor's proposed annual city budget shall be referred to the 4 standing committees which shall review those sections of the budget over which each has jurisdiction, and after said review, the budget shall be referred to the Budget and Rules Committee.

6.The City Clerk is authorized to reassign any current common council files to the appropriate common council standi...