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New Albany City Council adopts rules, reappoints liaisons and designates deputy clerk
Summary
At its Jan. 7, 2005 organizational meeting, the New Albany City Council adopted updated rules of procedure with clerk-recommended clarifications, reappointed members to the grants subcommittee and board/commission liaisons, set its regular 2005 meeting schedule, and designated a deputy clerk to take required sunshine-law training.
The New Albany City Council opened its organizational meeting on Jan. 7, 2005, adopting an updated set of rules of procedure and confirming committee and liaison assignments for the year.
The presiding officer moved to adopt the clerk-drafted rules of procedure as clarified by the clerk; the clerk conducted the affirmation and announced the motion carried with four recorded "yes" votes. The clerk had proposed several minor clarifications, including changing wording from "committee chairpersons" to "subcommittee chairpersons" and specifying that tabling motions are intended for use only within the same meeting.
Council members also moved to reappoint the grants subcommittee and to keep Council members Fellows, Schall and Brisk on that body. The clerk announced that the motion to reappoint the subcommittee carried with four "yes" votes. The clerk then read the council's board- and commission-liaison assignments — including the Planning Commission, Parks and Trails Advisory Board, Architectural Review Board, Board of Zoning Appeals, Sustainability Advisory Board, Idea Implementation Panel, Cemetery Restoration Advisory Board and the Public Records Commission (the latter noted as required by the Ohio Revised Code) — and the council approved those assignments as read.
The clerk read additional representative assignments to outside bodies and internal liaisons (city manager and mayor as representatives to Morpsey; a representative to the Joint Parks and Recreation Board; Plain Local Schools; Pine Township; and designated administration and finance liaisons). The council approved those appointments as presented.
The council agreed to retain its regular meeting schedule for the year: the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Village Hall. The transcript records the approval in that reading with an affirmative count described as "2 yes votes," a tally that appears inconsistent with other roll-call statements in the record and therefore is recorded here as stated in the transcript without independent verification.
Finally, the clerk asked the council to designate Deputy Clerk Christina Madrigara to take the required three-hour sunshine-law training on the council's behalf; the council approved that designation with four "yes" votes recorded by the clerk.
A motion to adjourn the organizational meeting was made and seconded; the clerk announced the organizational meeting adjourned at 6:46 p.m. and the council proceeded to its regular session.
The actions taken were procedural and administrative in nature: adoption of the council's rules of procedure (with clerk clarifications), reappointment of subcommittee and liaison assignments, confirmation of outside representatives, adoption of the annual meeting schedule, and designation of a deputy clerk for sunshine-law training. Where the transcript records vote tallies, those are reported verbatim; some tallies in the transcript are unclear and are noted as such.
