This reform ordinance requires at least 48 Hours Online Public Notice on BOA Committee Meetings AND sets minimum standards for Notices/Agendas AND prohibits last minute additions to Agendas AND prohibits legislation and nominees from receiving votes in Executive Session same meeting as Public Hearing AND requires Committees receive Substitutes at least 48 hours in advance of vote AND requires reports and presentations received by committees be posted to their web page.
UPDATE NOTE: Section 7 was inadvertently not included in original draft.
An ordinance requiring the Board of Aldermen to post online all committee meeting notices, agendas, reports and presentations received, and all legislation on the agenda of any committee meeting.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. No Board of Aldermen committee or subcommittee shall meet without a meeting notice posted by the Clerk of the Board to the public meetings page of the City’s website calendar no later that 8 am two business days prior to the meeting. The meeting notice shall include, at a minimum, the time, date, place of the meeting, the agenda, and information on how the public may testify and view and listen to the meeting. No committee shall continue a meeting to another day without complying with this section.
SECTION 2. No Board of Aldermen committee or subcommittee shall meet without a copy of the agenda for the meeting electronically mailed to each member of the committee by the Clerk of the Board, and posted by the Clerk to the public meetings page of the City’s website calendar with the meeting notice, no later that 8 am two business days prior to the meeting. No item may be added to the agenda after 8 am two business days prior to the meeting. No committee shall continue a meeting to another day without complying with this section.
SECTION 3. All board bills, resolutions, or other legislation on a committee’s agenda shall be posted to the Board’s website by 8 am two business days prior to the meeting.
SECTION 4. Each committee meeting agenda shall include the following headings: Reports and Presentations, Public Hearings, Executive Session, Other Business. The name and title, office or organization, if applicable, of any person making a report or presentation to a committee and the topic shall be listed on the committee agenda under Reports and Presentations. Any board bill, resolution, or other legislation to receive a public hearing shall be listed on the agenda under Public Hearings. Any nominee for appointment to a board, commission, committee, or other public body made by the mayor, comptroller, or president of the Board of Aldermen, and requiring consent of the Board of Aldermen, and the name of the entity nominated to, shall be listed under Public Hearings of the agenda. The names of nominees, with their entity nominated to, and board bills, resolutions, other legislation, to be voted on at the meeting shall be listed on the agenda under Executive Session. No additions to the committee meeting agenda shall be made after 8 am two business days prior to the meeting.
SECTION 5. No board bill, resolution, other legislation, or nominee to any board, commission, committee, or other public body shall be voted on by a committee except in Executive Session as posted on the agenda. No board bill, resolution, other legislation, or nominee to any board, commission, committee, or other public body shall be voted on by a committee in the same meeting as the legislation’s or nominee’s Public Hearing. At least two business days must elapse between the Public Hearing for any board bill, resolution, other legislation, or nominee and vote on same in Executive Session. No substitute board bill, resolution, other legislation shall be voted on by a committee without a copy of the substitute electronically mailed to each member of the committee by the Clerk of the Board at least two business days prior to the meeting it is scheduled for Executive Session.
SECTION 6. No Board of Aldermen committee or subcommittee shall meet by phone.
SECTION 7. All paper and digital reports and presentations received by a committee during a meeting shall be posted by the chair of the committee or designee to the committee’s web page within two business days after the meeting.
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