Council votes to amend Procedure Bylaw

Amendment intended to provide additional time to review agenda packages

NEWS RELEASE - Distributed April 21, 2015 1:00 PM

Summary

During its April 20th meeting, Council voted to adopt the City of Nanaimo's Procedure Bylaw so as to introduce a series of updates and timelines which, once implemented, are intended to streamline processes supporting Council meetings. Key changes include:

• With a few exceptions, Council meetings will be held the first and third Monday of each month (previously meetings were held during the second and fourth week). Committee of the Whole meetings will be held the opposite Monday.
• The deadline to submit items for inclusion on a meeting agenda is 12 p.m. on the second Friday preceding the meeting; the agenda will be published and made available to the public by 4 p.m. on the Tuesday preceding the meeting.
• The deadline to submit a late item or appear as a delegation is 11 a.m. on the Friday preceding the meeting, with the addendum agenda made available by 4 p.m.

Link to Strategic Plan: Taking responsibility to be an excellent municipal government

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