2004-0033
INTRODUCED BY: LANCE MARINO
COUNCILMAN-AT-LARGE, DIVISION A
RESOLUTION NO.
Title
A resolution to amend the Parish Council Rules to revise Rule 31. to only allow reconsideration's of Ordinances and Resolutions at the same meeting.
Body
WHEREAS, the St. Charles Parish Home Rule Charter, Article IV, Ordinances and Resolutions, provides for the enactment of an Ordinance and the submission of ordinances and resolutions to the Parish President; and,
WHEREAS, the procedure includes that upon adoption by the Parish Council each ordinance and resolution shall be signed by the Council Secretary and Chairman and presented to the Parish President within two (2) days after adoption; and,
WHEREAS, the Parish President, within six (6) calendar days, shall return it to the Council Secretary, with or without his approval; and,
WHEREAS, with or without the Parish Presidents approval it shall be effective the fifth day following publication in the official journal and if vetoed it shall be returned to the Parish Council to vote whether or not to override the veto; and,
WHEREAS, once an Ordinance or Resolution is signed by the Council Secretary and Council Chairman and submitted to the Parish President the procedural disposition of the Ordinance or Resolution is clearly prescribed in the Home Rule Charter and the only "reconsideration" allowed by the Council is upon the veto of the Parish President; and,
WHEREAS, any Councilmember at any regular or special Council meeting may propose the introduction of an Ordinance or consideration of a Resolution, the effect of which is to repeal or amend a prior Ordinance or Resolution all in accordance with the Home Rule Charter; and,
WHEREAS, to reconsider an Ordinance, after publication and public hearing requirements of the law have been met without giving the public prior written public notice in the Official Journal and affording them a Public Hearing, all as required in the Home Rule Charter is a travesty of justice which this Council wishes to avoid.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, THAT WE, THE MEMBERS OF THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL, do hereby amend Rule 31. as follows:
RULE 31. (AS WRITTEN)
A vote may be reconsidered at any time during the same meeting, or at the next regular or special meeting. A motion for reconsideration having been rejected shall not be reconsidered. A motion that has been rejected may be renewed at a future meeting.
RULE 31. (REVISED)
A vote on an Ordinance or a Resolution may be reconsidered at any time during the same meeting. A vote on a matter, other than an Ordinance or Resolution, may be reconsidered at any time during the same meeting, or at the next regular or special meeting.
Vote
The foregoing resolution having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows:
And the resolution was declared adopted this day of , 2004, to become effective five (5) days after publication in the Official Journal.
Amend Council Rule 31
CHAIRMAN:
SECRETARY:
DLVD/PARISH PRESIDENT:
APPROVED: DISAPPROVED :
PARISH PRESIDENT:
RETD/SECRETARY:
AT: RECD BY: