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Rules committee moves to advance codification ordinance after publisher delays
Summary
Director Dean told Rules & Personnel the city has an entire year of uncodified ordinances because the publisher delayed work; council members agreed to move Ordinance 02/2001 forward for first reading to formalize codified ordinances and correct online inconsistencies.
Rules & Personnel reviewed Ordinance 02/2001 at its Jan. 13 meeting, a first-reading request to edit and include recent ordinances and resolutions in the city's codified ordinances and to repeal conflicting provisions.
"The reason why it's on 1st reading is because our publisher was dilatory in getting this legislation over to us," Director Dean told the committee, explaining that a backlog resulted in an entire year of ordinances and resolutions that had not been codified despite online changes. She listed several substantive changes that need formal codification, including the creation of an Assistant Planning Director position, an outreach associate role, changes to smoking rules on city property, and updates related to adult-use cannabis in light of state law changes.
Dean said staff have checked the legislative text and that the ordinance will regularize codified language that already appears online but technically lacked formal passage in codified form. Committee members asked whether they wanted additional time to review; one member said they trusted department review and supported moving the ordinance forward. The committee voted to advance the item for first reading so the code updates can be published and corrected.
Ending: The committee signaled approval to move Ordinance 02/2001 to first reading at the next appropriate council meeting; no final adoption vote was taken at this committee meeting.
