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GRANGE CGUNTY <br />BGARD GF CGMMISSIGNERS <br />ACT[GN AGENDA [TEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 15, 2411 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. q- - I <br />SUBJECT: Process for a Member of the Board of Commissioners to Piace an Item on a <br />Meetin A ends <br />DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEAR[NG: ~YIN~ No <br />ATTACHMENT~S~: <br />Excerpt from February 8, 2011 Draft BDCC <br />Minutes <br />[NFGRMATIGN CGNTACT: <br />Clerk's Gffice, 245-2130 <br />PURPGSE: Ta approve the process for a member of the Board of Commissioners to place an <br />item on a Board meeting agenda. <br />BACKGRGUND: The Rules of Procedures for the Board of County Commissioners currently <br />address the process for a commissioner to request an item be placed on a Board meeting <br />agenda. Section V reads as follows: <br />V. Agenda <br />Rule 9. Agenda. ~a} The county manager shall prepare the agenda for each regular, special and <br />emergency meeting subject to review and approval by the chair and vice-chair. A request to have an hem <br />of business placed on the agenda must be received by 12 noon, Monday of the week prior to the <br />meeting. Any board member may, by a ~mely request, have an hem placed on the agenda. <br />At its February 8, 2011 work session, the Board discussed changes to this process and agreed <br />by consensus "that petitions by the Commissioners would be after Public Comments. ~"he <br />Board agreed that the petition could be either slated orally or in written fora and there is not a <br />vote but it just goes through the process of review by the Chair/l/ice Chair/l~ar~ager. Each <br />Board member will be given three minutes total for petitions." <br />The full text excerpt from the February 8, 2011 draft minutes is attached. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: None. <br />RECGMMENDATIGN~S}: The Manager recommends the Board approve the change to the <br />process for a member of the Board of Commissioners to place an item on a Board meeting <br />agenda as outlined above and direct staff to incorporate the necessary changes into the <br />Board's Rules of Procedure and the agenda facesheets for regular Board meetings. <br />