BYLAW NO. 2138 (ADOPTION)

CITY OF LANGFORD

A BYLAW TO AMEND BYLAW NO. 1971, “Council Procedure Bylaw"

The Council of the City of Langford, in open meeting assembled, hereby enacts as follows:

A. Council Procedure Bylaw No. 1971, 2021 is amended as follows:

By amending the definition of Special Meeting in Section 2 by removing the words “of Council”
By amending section 9 to read as follows: Council meetings will begin at 7:00 pm, and must be adjourned by 10:00 pm the same day unless Council resolves by a two-thirds vote to extend the meeting to 11 pm, with any further extension requiring a unanimous vote.
By adding the following as sections 24 and renumbering the remainder accordingly:

Where meetings are recorded or live streamed, these recordings are for public convenience only and are not an official record of the meeting. While best efforts will be made to record all portions of an open meeting, the City does not guarantee that this will occur.

By adding the following as section 33 and renumbering the remainder accordingly:

Members of the public are not permitted to bring signs of any kind into Council Chambers, signs may be left outside of Council Chambers for retrieval at the end of the meeting.

“The public participation period shall be limited to thirty (30) minutes unless such time is extended by unanimous agreement of Council” replace "unanimous" with "two-thirds”.

By adding the following as sections 36 to 37 and renumbering the remainder accordingly:

No Member or person attending a meeting may cause a disturbance, disrupt or unnecessarily delay the conduct of business at a meeting.

No Member or person attending a meeting may engage in bullying or harassing behaviour in respect of a Member or City employee, any other person.

By amending section 39 by removing “29 and 30” and replacing it with “through 39”.
By adding the following to the end of section 41 “or the text of any questions or debate of Council.
By adding the following as section 42 and renumbering the remainder accordingly:

Meeting minutes will record the first initial, last name and street name of members of the public speaking to items on the Agenda and will indicate the number of the item they are speaking to and at a minimum will record if they are in favour of or opposed to the matter.

By amending section 45 by deleting “39” and replacing it with “44”.
By amending section 47 to state “…Mayor or Acting Mayor is not in attendance…”
By amending section 52 by deleting “46” and replacing it with “51”.
By adding the following as sections 55 and 56 and renumbering the remainder accordingly:
Items listed under the Consent Agenda section are considered for approval in one motion, unless a Member wishes to debate an item and requests it be excluded. If an item is excluded from the Consent Agenda, it will be considered as an agenda item. The rule of order establishing a consent Agenda provides that Consent Agenda items may be considered in total and without debate or amendment.
Items will be listed in the Consent Agenda that, in the opinion of the Chief Administrative Officer and/or Corporate Officer, require little or no discussion.
By deleting section 57 and replacing it with the following:
The Agenda for all Regular Council Body Meetings may contain the following matters in the order in which they are listed below:

a) Call to Order;
b) Territorial Acknowledgement
c) Meeting Conduct Rules
d) Approval of the Agenda;
e) Presentations;
f) Delegations;
g) Public hearings, statutory hearings;
h) Public Participation;
i) Adoption of the Minutes;
j) Consent Agenda
k) Consideration of Matters Removed from the Consent Agenda
l) Unfinished Business;
m) Committee Resolutions;
n) Notices of Intent;
o) Reports;
p) Correspondence;
q) Notice of Motion;
r) Bylaws;
s) New Business;
t) In-camera resolution;
u) Rise and Report;
v) Adjournment.

By adding the following as sections 59 a) and c) and renumbering the remainder accordingly:

a) A Member may pose a question to staff about a matter once that matter has been raised and prior to a motion on the matter; however, there is no debate of the matter until the motion is made;
c) A Member may indicate that they wish to make comments on the matter by either raising a hand or turning on their microphone light;

By adding the words to section 61” or privilege” after “point of order”.

B. This Bylaw may be cited for all purposes as “Council Procedure Bylaw, Amendment No. 2, Bylaw No. 2138, 2023".

READ A FIRST TIME this 24th day of July, 2023.
READ A SECOND TIME this 24th day of July, 2023.

READ A THIRD TIME this 24th day of July, 2023.
ADOPTED this day of , 2023.

PRESIDING COUNCIL MEMBER
CORPORATE OFFICER

BYLAW NO. 2138 (ADOPTION)

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