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Resolution amending and supplementing the Rules of Council to provide for contingent presiding officers over regular meetings of Council in the event of absences.
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WHEREAS, the Rules of Council currently require a temporary presiding officer to be elected by members of Council during a regular meeting if the presiding President and President Pro-Tempore are both absent; and
WHEREAS, there is desire to adjust this procedure to provide for a series of contingent presiding officers in case of absence by the President and President Pro-Tempore, and
WHEREAS, such change requires an amendment to the Rules of Council.
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. The Rules of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh are hereby amended and supplemented at Rule V. Section 1. as follows:
RULES OF COUNCIL
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V. REGULAR MEETINGS
SECTION 1. REGULAR MEETING ORDER OF BUSINESS. At the hour appointed for the meeting of Council, the President shall take the chair, and the Clerk shall proceed to call the roll and note the absentees, and no Council Member shall depart without leave from the President. When the roll is called, either in Council or in committee, the name of the presiding officer shall be called last. In the absence of the President and the President Pro-Tempore, [the Council Members shall elect a temporary President Pro-Tempore to chair that meeting,] and provided there be a quorum present, the current chairpersons of the following Standing Committees, in the following order, shall preside: Committee on Finance and Law, and in their absence, Committee on Public Safety Services, and in their absence, Committee on Public Works and Infrastucture, and in their absence, Committee on Human Resources. Should no quorum attend within thirty minutes after the hour appointed for the meeting, the Council shall thereupon stand adjourned, and all absentees shall be fined in accordance with Rule III, Section 3 hereof.