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ORDER-2025-9 : Proposed Revision of Rule 38A of the Rules of Order for City Council All appointments ( new appointments and reappointments) made by the Mayor and subject to the confirmation of the Council shall include a written statement of interest and/or resume from the candidate.

Passed · PASSED AS AMENDED [8 TO 0] Yes: Mark Garipay, Ward Hamilton, Maya Jamaleddine, Manjula Karamcheti, Devin Romanul, Robb Stewart, Kimberly Vandiver, Leila Migliorelli. Absent: Cal Finocchiaro, John Obremski, Ryan Williams.

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ORDER-2025-9 Amending Rules of Order of the City Council Proposed Revision of Rule 38A of the Rules of Order for City Council All appointments ( new appointments and reappointments) made by the Mayor and subject to the confirmation of the Council shall include a written statement of interest and/or resume from the candidate. Passed as Amended

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Transcript (~3 min @ 11:52)

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▶ 11:42 Leila Migliorelli: Motion to place on file made by Councillor Repe, seconded by Councillor Carrum Jdi on discussion. Seeing none. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? This order has been placed on file. Who

▶ 11:54 Speaker 3: Just seconded that. I'm sorry. Uh, Jamine. Jamine. Sorry.

▶ 12:00 Speaker 4: Okay. Okay. Id Number 1, 2, 4 0 4 Proposed revision of Rule 38 A of the rules of order for city council. All appointments, new appointments and reappointments made by the mayor. And subject to the confirmation of the council shall include a written statement of interest

▶ 12:16 Speaker 1: and or resume from the candidate.

▶ 12:20 Maya Jamaleddine: Madam President. This order comes from the legal and legislative, uh, committee with recommended with a recommendation to pass as amended. And I This time I would like to make a motion, uh, to pass as it was amended. Second, second,

▶ 12:36 Speaker 3: Sorry. Motion to pass as amended made by Councilor Jamine, seconded by Councilor Carrum Chay. On discussion,

▶ 12:43 Kimberly Vandiver: Uh, just to confirm, the, the text as it shown here is prior to amendment? Yes. And we're looking at asme.

▶ 12:51 Speaker 1: I actually have the actual, if you look at the minutes, it's all in the minutes with the new, what we all decided on. It's all amended in the minutes. Do you, Do you want me to read them? I don't if you

▶ 13:01 Speaker 3: Want, yeah. Do you read the Yeah, that'd be helpful.

▶ 13:03 Speaker 2: The amended version. Okay.

▶ 13:06 Speaker 1: So for the first one, which is

▶ 13:10 Speaker 4: what we were just talking about, that Rule 38 a, um,

▶ 13:12 Speaker 1: proposed revision of Rule 38 A of the rules of order for the city council. All appointments, new appointments, and reappointments made by the mayor. And subject to the confirmation of the council shall include a written statement of in, of the interest in written statement of accomplishments while on the board or commission.

▶ 13:30 Speaker 1: Okay. That's what was amended to.

▶ 13:35 Speaker 3: Okay. Um,

▶ 13:36 Kimberly Vandiver: Is that clear? Is the text clear that the statement of interest applies to everyone and the statement of accomplishments applies to reappointments is the intent. Right,

▶ 13:48 Speaker 1: But this, there was, there's another one, there's something different for the next one. But that's what I got on the first,

▶ 13:53 Speaker 3: First one. I would defer to those who are on the committee. If you have,

▶ 13:58 Maya Jamaleddine: Um, Madam, I do not have the notes front. Yeah. Um, during the discussion, uh, it was recommended to amend, um, as follow proposed revision of Rule 38 A of the rules of order for city council. All appointments, no appointments, entry appointments made by the mayor, and subject to the confirmation of the city, uh, of the council shall include a written statement of interest for appointments and, um, uh, statement of accomplishments for Reappointments, um, during their term.

▶ 14:46 Speaker 3: Okay. So, all right.

▶ 14:48 Speaker 1: That's fine. That's fine. You can change that. Yeah, that's fine. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. So when we see the minutes of the next one, you'll see that and then, yeah.

▶ 14:54 Leila Migliorelli: Okay. And then the rules will be updated. Um,

▶ 14:57 Speaker 1: Yep. And the rules will be updated for sure.

▶ 14:59 Leila Migliorelli: Okay. So as counselor or, uh, chair Jamal of legal legislative committee read the re amended version,

▶ 15:08 Speaker 3: um, motion for passage on the amended version made by Councilor Jamal Dean, seconded by Councilor Carrum Chaney on discussion.