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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO ESTABLISHING ELECTRONIC AND EMERGENCY MEETING PROCEDURES AND AUTHORIZING THE REMOTE CONDUCT OF MEETINGS FOR THE CITY OF COMMERCE CITY DURING CERTAIN DECLARED DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES AND REPEALING ORDINANCE 2271
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On March 13, 2020, the City Council enacted Ordinance 2271 as an emergency ordinance to provide for remote council meetings conducted virtually during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Subsequently, the City Council approved Resolution 2020-30 to establish procedures for conducting quasi-judicial hearings remotely. The City Council has resumed its regular meeting schedule and other City boards and commissions have conducted meetings.
The proposed ordinance updates the authorization of virtual meetings to account for the need to conduct public business and ongoing nature of the public health emergency, restrictions on public gatherings, and additional technologies for conducting meetings in the current environment. The ordinance proposes more efficient, flexible measures and accounts for the needs of boards and commissions.
The proposed ordinance:
- Confirms the ability to conduct hybrid meetings, with some in person presence subject to resource availability and public health requirements. This may require the limitation of council member presence as well as the presence of the public (Section 2(a, c)).
- Reduces the use of roll call voting (as long as the identity and vote are not concealed) (Section 2(e)).
- Limits the requirement to record meetings to regular and special City Council meetings and boards or commissions exercising quasi-judicial authority. Study sessions, committee meeting, GID and URA meetings, and board and commission meetings need not be recorded (Section 2(f); Section 2(k)).
- Repeals Ordinance 2271 (Section 4).
- Incorporates the quasi-judicial hearing requirements of Resolution 2020-30 (Section 2(j)(2)).
The ordinance is proposed as an emergency ordinance to a...
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