IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
WITHDRAWN 6/23/1997
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A RESOLUTION amending Rule Fourteen of the Legislature, relating to the Legislature's agenda and order of business.
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RESOLUTION #11794, June 9, 1997
INTRODUCED BY Victor E. Callahan, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the Legislature believes it appropriate that its meetings begin with an invocation, offered by a member of the clergy, on a rotating, volunteer basis; and,
WHEREAS, the Chair of the Legislature would have the responsibility of making arrangement for the invocation; now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Enacting Clause. Rule Fourteen of the Rules of the Legislature is amended as follows:
RULE FOURTEEN. Agenda and Order of business
A. Agenda Formation. The Clerk shall prepare the agenda on the Thursday preceding each regular meeting of the Legislature. The Clerk shall include all matter that have come to the Clerk's attention by noon Thursday. All items of business shall be listed by short title. A short title is a simple, one sentence statement of the purpose and content of the item. The Clerk shall deliver one copy of the agenda to the Legislative Offices of each member no later than 10:00 A.M. on Friday preceding each regular meeting of the Legislature. The Clerk shall make copies available to the public. Items of business on the agenda for the last regular meeting of any year, not acted upon prior to the end of the year, shall be carried over to the agenda for the first regular meeting of the succeeding year.
B. Items Absent from the Agenda. No ordinance shall be passed or perfected and no resolution shall be passed at any meeting unless said resolution or ordinance is included on the agenda prepared for that meeting, except by unanimous consent of the members present.
C. Order of Business. The Order of Business at ...
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