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SECTION XIV <br />COUNCIL COMMITTEES <br />The City Council may organize among its members such standing committees as it may <br />determine, each of which shall act as afact-finding committee for the purpose of <br />considering all available information on proposed legislation or matters of policy referred <br />to such committee by Council and making recommendations thereon to the Council as a <br />whole. <br />Each Council Member shall be assigned by the Mayor to various standing committees. <br />Such assignments shall be ratified by the Council as a whole. The Mayor may also serve <br />on various standing committees and l~~ratified by the Council as a whole. Participation <br />and attendance at those committee meetings is important. Continued absences from <br />meetings without good cause may result in removal from a committee at the discretion of <br />the Mayor, taking into consideration advice from other committee members. <br />From time to time AD HOC committees may be organized by the Mayor to address <br />special concerns which may be of short duration. <br />It shall be the prerogative of the Mayor, taking into consideration relative length of <br />Council service, individual Council Member preference and equivalency, to assign <br />individual Council Members to these various committees. Normally appointments are for <br />a one or two year period, but may be renewed at the Mayor's discretion where Council <br />Members have particular experience or expertise with respect to the business of a <br />particular committee. <br />STANDING COMMITTEES <br />The list of standing and Ad Hoc Committees and Committee assignments shall be revised <br />from time to time as necessary. <br />COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETINGS <br />It is the policy of the City Council that Council Committee meetings, as a general <br />rule, be noticed and open to the public. A staff. member shall be present at all <br />committee meetings. 1t is also the policy of the City Council that all Council <br />Committees adopt a schedule of regular meetings at least once a year, post a written <br />agenda 72 hours before each of its regular meetings, limit discussion during its <br />meetings to items on the posted agenda, provide an opportunity at the beginning of <br />each meeting for comments from the public, and, if the committee elects to do so, <br />adopt time limits for public comments at its regular meetings. In voluntarily adopting <br />these procedural rules -for its less-than-a-quorum committees, the City Council <br />specifically declines to adopt the "cure and correct" provisions of the Brown Act for <br />any purpose as to any action taken by.a standing Council Committee. (The Brown <br />Act, Chap. VII, 2. b) <br />XIV-1 <br />