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Executive committee approves ordinance establishing removal-hearing procedures for alders
Summary
The Madison Common Council Executive Committee on March 11 approved a draft ordinance creating section 2.37 of the Madison General Ordinances to prescribe removal-hearing procedures for alderpersons, voting 5–1.
MADISON — The Madison Common Council Executive Committee on March 11 approved a draft ordinance to create section 2.37 of the Madison General Ordinances that prescribes procedures for removal hearings concerning alderpersons. The motion passed on a 5–1 roll-call vote.
The ordinance instructs the council to determine, at an initial stage, whether allegations — assumed true for the purpose of that review — would state a claim for removal under applicable statute; if the council finds they would, the city attorney is directed to prepare and introduce an authorizing resolution to start a hearing process. The committee approved the item after extended legal and procedural discussion.
Committee members and the city attorney debated the proper sequencing of review, fact-gathering and the attorney’s advisory role. City…
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