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Decatur City Council adopts ordinance shortening ordinance-reading procedure to two readings
Summary
The Decatur City Common Council voted to amend local ordinance procedures so ordinances will normally require two readings instead of three and resolutions may be passed on a single reading; council suspended the rules to adopt Ordinance 2025-1 on the same night.
The Decatur City Common Council voted to adopt Ordinance 2025-1 on final reading, changing the council’s standard procedure from three readings to two for ordinances and declaring that resolutions may be introduced and passed on one reading.
The measure, introduced by the presiding officer identified in the transcript as “K.,” amends Title 3, Chapter 31, Section 31.05(g) of the Decatur Code of Ordinances (2015, as supplemented) to permit ordinances to be introduced and passed on first reading and to allow council to complete second and final readings at the same meeting if the rules are suspended. The council suspended its rules during the meeting to move the ordinance to final reading and adopt it…
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