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Committee keeps two-year terms for alder appointments to most boards after debate
Summary
The executive committee voted 5-1 to amend section 33.016 of the Madison General Ordinances to maintain two-year appointments for alder members of boards, commissions and committees in most cases after rejecting a proposed alternate that would have introduced one-year terms for single-alder committee seats.
The Madison Common Council Executive Committee on March 11 approved an amendment to section 33.016 of the Madison General Ordinances governing alder appointments to boards, commissions and committees, voting 5-1 to keep a structure that preserves two-year terms in most cases.
The committee considered a proposed "second alternate" that would have allowed one-year terms for committees that include only a single alder and two-year terms where two or more alders serve; that alternate was defeated on a 2-4 roll call. The committee then advanced the main proposal, which retains two-year concurrent terms for…
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