- A. Public Meetings.
- All Council meetings shall be public meetings and
shall be open to everyone who wants to attend and who observes the
Meeting Groundrules.
- All votes taken at a Council meeting shall be in public, and the
results of each vote shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.
All members of the Council are eligible to vote.
- B. Regular Meetings.
- The Council shall meet regularly on the fourth
Tuesday of every month at 6:00 PM. or on some other regular monthly date
and time as the Council determines. The meetings shall take place at
the Lighthouse Free Methodist Church unless other arrangements are made
in advance for a given meeting.
- B. Special Meetings.
- Either co-chair of the Council may call a special
meeting of the Council with appropriate advance written notice to all
members of the Council.
- C. Notice.
- Written notice of every Council meeting shall be provided
to each Council member and throughout the Neighborhood at least seven
days in advance of the meeting, except in cases of emergency as
determined by either co-chair. The meeting notice shall indicate the
type of meeting being called and the purposes of the meeting.
- D. Administration.
- The Council's Administrative Team shall confer in
advance of each regular Council meeting to prepare a written agenda for
that meeting. The agenda shall be distributed to each Council member
along with meeting notice.
- The Administrative Team shall conduct all Council Meetings.
- E. Meeting Groundrules.
- The Meeting Groundrules shall govern all
Council meetings. The Administrative Team shall have copies of the
Meeting Groundrules for everyone in attendance at each meeting.
- The Council shall not operate by Roberts Rules of Order, unless the
Council adopts them for a particular matter.
- F. Voting and Speaking.
- Each council member shall have one vote. The
co-chairs shall not vote except in the case of a tie. There shall be
no voting by proxy.
- The Council may discuss any topic or issue at any meeting. Except in
the case of an emergency as determined by its members present at the
meeting, the Council shall not vote on any matter which is not listed on
the agenda for the meeting in question.
- The co-chairs may impose reasonable time limits on the discussion of
any issue. The Council members present at the meeting may adopt a
different time limit by majority vote. Anyone may speak at a Council
meeting on any issue; Council members shall be given priority to speak
on any matter where the co-chairs have limited the time for discussion.
- The agenda for every Council meeting shall include a reasonable time
period for neighborhood concerns. During this part of the meeting,
anyone who is not a member of the Council may speak on any issue of
concern to her or him.
- G. Valid Meeting and Binding Decisions.
- At least 21 Council members
must be in attendance in order to make a meeting a valid meeting of the
Council. The Council may take official action only at a valid Council
meeting.
- At a valid Council meeting, all issues shall be decided by a simple
majority vote of the Council members in attendance at that meeting,
unless a larger majority vote is otherwise provided for.
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