Ordinance 4073ORDINANCE NO.4073
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, RELATING TO CITY COUNCIL
COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND ADDING A NEW SECTION TO
CHAPTER 1.04 ECC
WHEREAS, the city council has the power to organize and regulate its internal affairs
under RCW 35A.11.020; and
WHEREAS, the city council would like to clarify certain matters with respect to the
functioning of council committees; NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. A new Section 1.04.050 of the Edmonds City Code, entitled "Consent calendar,"
is hereby added to read as follows:
1.04.050 Committee functions.
A. Business items considered by a city council committee should only be forwarded
to the city council consent agenda with the unanimous consent of the committee
members.
B. Committee business items that have not received unanimous support of the
committee to be forwarded to the consent agenda may be discussed at a forthcoming
committee meeting if additional committee work is likely to produce unanimity.
Alternatively, the council president may place the item on a future council agenda for
further deliberation and/or action by the city council.
C. The council president shall be a non -voting ex-ofiicio member of all council
committees, except when a regular committee member is absent, in which case the
council president may vote. When a committee chair is absent, the other regular
committee member shall serve as the committee chair.
D. The mayor and council members from other committees may attend committee
meetings of which they are not members and may join the discussion and ask questions
about a committee business item if they have been present during the entire discussion of
that business item, PROVIDED THAT only committee members, or the council president
when substituting for an absent committee member, may vote on committee business.
Presence of a quorum of the city council at a committee meeting shall not change the
character of the meeting from a committee meeting to a city council meeting.
Section 2. Severability. If any section, subsection, clause, sentence, or phrase of this
ordinance should be held invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of
the remaining portions of this ordinance.
Section 3. Effective Date. This ordinance, being an exercise of a power specifically
delegated to the City legislative body, is not subject to referendum and shall take effect five (5)
days after passage and publication of an approved summary thereof consisting of the title.
ATTEST/AUTHENTICATED:
c'rrlyr CLERZSEDTf PASSEY
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY:
BY
JEFF TARADAY
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: June 16, 2017
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: June 20, 2017
PUBLISHED: June 25, 2017
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 30, 2017
ORDINANCE NO.: 4073
SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO.4073
of the City of Edmonds, Washington
On the 20th day of June, 2017, the City Council of the City of Edmonds, passed Ordinance
No. 4073. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title, provides as
follows:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, RELATING TO CITY COUNCIL
COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND ADDING A NEW
SECTION TO CHAPTER 1.04 ECC
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 21" day of June, 2017.
r
C CLERK, SCO 11
ASSEY
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representative of the Everett Daily Herald a
daily newspaper. The said newspaper is a legal
newspaper by order of the superior court in the
county in which it is published and is now and
has been for more than six months prior to the
date of the first publication of the Notice
hereinafter referred to, published in the English
language continually as a daily newspaper in
Snohomish County, Washington and is and
always has been printed in whole or part in the
Everett Daily Herald and is of general
circulation in said County, and is a legal
newspaper, in accordance with the Chapter 99
of the Laws of 1921, as amended by Chapter
213, Laws of 1941, and approved as a legal
newspaper by order of the Superior Court of
Snohomish County, State of Washington, by
order dated June 16, 1941, and that the annexed
is a true copy of EDH764550 ORDINANCE
4073 as it was published in the regular and
entire issue of said paper and not as a
supplement form thereof for a period of 1
issue(s), such publication commencing on
06/25/2017 and ending on 06/25/2017 and that
said newspaper was regularly distributed to its
subscribers during all of said period.
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SCOTT PASSEY
SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 4073
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On the 20th dayut June. 2017, th*Oity COunOlt 01•tho Cily 01
Edmrmds, pos+3ad Ordinance NIx4073. A summary of the content
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, RELATING TO CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE
MEETINGS AND ADDING A NEW SECTION TO CHAPTER
1.04 ECC
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 21 st day o1 June, 2017.
CITY CLERK, SCOTT PASSEY
ublished: June 25, 2017. EDH7645501