Title
Dept/ Agency: Offices of Municipal Council/City Clerk
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing (X) Amending
Type of Service: Council Rules
Purpose: Resolution establishing rules of procedure governing the conduct of
meetings of the Municipal Council of the City of Newark
Additional Information:
Sponsor: Council of the Whole
body
WHEREAS, the Municipal Council of the City of Newark, New Jersey, wishes to establish rules of procedure of its meetings.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT the following rules of procedure shall govern the conduct of meetings of the Municipal Council of the City of Newark, New Jersey:
RULE I. GOVERNING RULES.
Except as may be provided in the charter, all questions of order, the methods of organization and the conduct of business of the Municipal Council shall be governed by Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised in all cases to which they are applicable as determined by the City Clerk as parliamentarian for the Municipal Council and in which they are not inconsistent with the following rules of the Council.
RULE II. PRE-MEETING CONFERENCES.
The Municipal Council shall hold pre-meeting conferences at 10:00 a.m. on all days preceding the day on which a regular meeting of the Council is held. Provided, however, that when the day fixed for any pre-meeting conference of the Municipal Council falls upon a day designated by law as a legal, religious or national holiday, or in the event that it is known that a majority of the Municipal Council will not be available, such conference shall be held on a succeeding day not a holiday, as established by the City Clerk, as secretary to the governing body, in the annual meeting notice.
The Pre-meeting Conference shall convene in the Municipal Council Chamber, on the second floor in City Hall or the Council Conference Room on the third floor of City Hall to be determined by the City Clerk base...
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