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AN ORDINANCE relating to council rules and order of business; amending Ordinance 11683, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.015, Ordinance 11683, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.025, Ordinance 11683, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.045, Ordinance 11683, Section 14, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.135, Ordinance 11683, Section 15, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.145 and Ordinance 11683, Section 22, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.215, and declaring an emergency.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
The annual reorganization of the council includes selection of the council chair and vice-chairs, and designation of council committees, and their chairs, vice-chairs, memberships and meeting times. These changes are made by adoption of one or more council motions, collected as the council's organizational compilation. Changes to the names or duties of some committees made in those motions also require certain parallel changes to the council's rules ordinance. It is not possible to identify and draft those changes until committee structure changes, if any, have been proposed. The process of developing such changes has not allowed the drafting and introduction of a proposed ordinance containing necessary rules changes within the time period that would allow a non-emergency ordinance to be considered and acted upon in a timely manner. As a result, to be able to have the council rules accurately reflect any changes to the council's organizational structure when the council convenes in January 2007, it is necessary to consider and act upon this ordinance as an emergency ordinance.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 11683, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 1.24.015 are each hereby amended as follows:
The chair of the council has the following powers and duties:
A. The chair shall:
1. Call the council to order at the hour appointed for meeting and, if a quorum is present, shall cause the minutes of the previous meet...
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