HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1413ORDINANCE N0. 1413
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO PREPARATION AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES
THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF CENTRAL POINT DO ORDAIN AS
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Section 1. Section 2.24.040 of the Central Point Muni-
cipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
2.24.040 Record of proceedings of Council and Planning
Commission. meetings.
A. The City Recorder in the case of City Council
meetings, and the Planning Commission secretary provided pursuant
to Municipal Code Section 2.16.060, in the place. of the Planning
Commission, shall attend and keep written minutes of all City
Council and Planning Commission meetings, respectively, at which
a quorum is present, which minutes shall provide a true reflection
of the matters discussed at the meeting and the view of the
participants, and which shall be made available to the public
within a reasonable time after the meeting. Said minutes shall
include the following:
1. The names of all members of the public body present..
2. All motions, resolutions, orders, ordinances and
measures proposed and their disposition.
3. The results of all votes and the vote of each member
by name.
4. The substance of any discussion on any matter.
5. A reference to any document discussed at the meeting.
B. In addition to the requirements of paragraph (A)
above, the City Recorder or Planning Corlrnission secretary, as the.
case may be, shall record or cause to be recorded all of the pro-
ceedings of all regular, special or adjourned meetings of the
public body at which a quorum is present, by means of magnetic
tape or other sound recording device. All such records with the
exception of executive session records, shall be maintained as
public and official records, and possession thereof may be retained
by either the City Recorder or City Administrator in the case of
City Council records, or the Planning Commission secretary or the
City Administrator in the case of Planning Commission records.
The record of executive sessions of City Council meetings may be
retained by either the City Recorder or the City Administrator at
the direction of the Council, and shall not be released. to the
public unless directed by the Council or unless such disclosure
is required by a court in the course of legal proceedings.
C. Meetings such as study sessions, committee meetings,
advisory board meetings and budget committee meetings need not
be recorded. unless the Council expressly so directs, but minutes
shall be kept thereof as required by this ordinance and by law.
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Section 2, There is hereby added to the Central Point
Municipal Code Section 2.,24,050 which is to read as follows:
2,24,050 Preparation and approval. of minutes. When
minutes are required. by this Chapter, the Charter of the city,
or by other ordinances, the person charged with the responsibility
of keeping said minutes shall prepare the same in typewritten
form and present them to the public body prior to their corres-
ponding regularly scheduled meeting in the following month, for
approval. The approval procedure shall be as follows:
A, As to spelling or typographical changes, the public
body shall. direct the person responsible for keeping minutes to
make such spelling or typographical corrections as they shall deem
appropriate, to present the same to the Mayor or the chairman of
the public body for signature and to enter the same into the
official minute book of the public body with said spelling or
typographical corrections,
B. As to substantive corrections, the public body shall
direct the person in charge of keeping such minutes to make an
annotation on the margin of said minutes indicating that the public
body has made a substantive correction thereto, and shall reference
the date of the meeting in which said substantive corrections were
discussed. The person in charge of keeping said minutes shall
then file said minutes, as annotated, in the official. minute book,
C. It is the intention of this ordinance that the
minutes, as approved by the public body, shall be identical to
those minutes filed in the official minute book, with the exception
that spelling and typographical errors be corrected and that
annotations be made to subsequent meetings in which substantive
were. discussed.
Passed by ther,Council and signed me in authentication
of its passage this day of .Ne 1980.
nth December
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ATTEST:
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Approved by me this
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