I happened to tune in to a meeting, a Committee Meeting a couple of weeks ago and i called in beforehand. I had a feed in to your Committee Meeting. You guys are on stage all the time. Okay, kim, you have to get the bridge line working. I need her help. Chair in three months there will be an election for my chair, vacated at the end of the year. We are looking at some action items. Our next item, action items, proposed amendments. The m d c bylawys. Should go over them, one by one, vote for them. Does the staff wish to identify the proposed amendments . I would be willing to do an introduction one at a time there has been discussion, set term limits. The appropriate thing is to bring it to the council for discussion and action. Staff has written these proposed changes for the sake of discussion, not anything carved in stone. Or not adopted. So, currently, the only thing that says, in the current bylaws for chairs, there shall be two cochairs the Service Officers of the council. The Cou
The friendly amendment. Everyone is clear . Public comment . All in favor of the Amendment Proposal please raise your right hand and say aye. Any opposed . Abstained . That was not very painful. laughter we have a few more items. We are running short on time. Is there any potential for extended time today . Five minutes. Thank you. The next item is a report from the disability Disaster Preparedness committee. Thank you cochair parsons. Chair delivered by councilmember senhaux. Disability Disaster Preparedness committee met on friday. There was a followup discussion on the shakeout activities that took place in october 18 and a disability specific activities. The Mayors Disability Council conducted an activation deal with the sou partners by text messaging the identifying contacts. The results were impressive. There was 100 response within 12 hours. We also discussed the civic center evacuation drill on october 25, about 10 buildings in the Civic Center Area evacuated including city hal
Chair councilmember supanich. Does that prevent someone from taking off a term and coming back . The bylaws would be silent and would not prevent someone from taking a year off as currently written. All right. Chair because it says consecutive. Right. Chair Councilmember Wilson . Councilmember wilson is that four years . Two. I would like to make a motion to adopt it. I will second the. Chair cochair james . Okay. We had two questions. I have a question. We have not had a motion to approve is yet or a second. Did we . Who made a motion to approve . Cochair james, councilmember supanich. Now we are open for discussion and Public Comment. Have a question about the intent of the proposed amendment. I am suspecting the intent by the author is to encourage and engage more councilmember leadership opportunities. What would happen if that were not the result . Lets hope that would not be the case if that comes into approval. Maybe that option, discussion . Councilmember wilson . I do not unde
Chair director johnson . Councilmember wong, wasnt your intent to make a motion to adopt the proposed amendment as written to set a term limit of two consecutive terms . Yes. The motion is already on the floor. It sounds like you are affirming the motion and a second. Technically speaking, the friendly amendment has to be withdrawn at this point. It is withdrawn. I like to call the question. Chair so we have a Public Comment within motion in the second. The discussion is complete . We agree on that. Seeing no Public Comment, we vote. All those in favor . Of the proposed amendment say aye, and raise your right hand. Aye. Those opposed, say nay and raise your right hand. Abstained . Chair the motion passes. Now we are on to article 3. Number b yeah, it passed i was afraid we would get out of here saturday. Chair my last duty as cochair, if one cochair cannot attend one or more meetings the other cochair can appoint a temporary replacement. We are open for discussion. I motion. Councilmem
The friendly amendment. Everyone is clear . Public comment . All in favor of the Amendment Proposal please raise your right hand and say aye. Any opposed . Abstained . That was not very painful. laughter we have a few more items. We are running short on time. Is there any potential for extended time today . Five minutes. Thank you. The next item is a report from the disability Disaster Preparedness committee. Thank you cochair parsons. Chair delivered by councilmember senhaux. Disability Disaster Preparedness committee met on friday. There was a followup discussion on the shakeout activities that took place in october 18 and a disability specific activities. The Mayors Disability Council conducted an activation deal with the sou partners by text messaging the identifying contacts. The results were impressive. There was 100 response within 12 hours. We also discussed the civic center evacuation drill on october 25, about 10 buildings in the Civic Center Area evacuated including city hal