§ 9.03. Procedure  


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  • (1) All rules and regulations adopted by the Commission shall be forwarded in writing to the City Manager who shall submit them to the City Council with the City Manager's recommendations. The City Council may amend, adopt or reject any such rules or regulations. If any rules or regulations should be rejected, the Commission may modify them and submit such modified rules and recommendations to the City Council.

    (2) Should any person on the Commission have a conflict of interest, pursuant to any state laws and/or City ordinances regulating conflicts of interest of municipal officers, with an agenda item then before the Commission, he/she shall openly declare same before discussion proceeds, and he/she is thereby prohibited from discussing the item or voting on the question, and is not considered as present and voting for the purposes of the tally.

    (3) Should any person on the Commission choose to abstain from voting on any question before the Commission, where no conflict of interest exists, the person's vote shall be recorded as a negative vote in the official minutes of the meeting. In a vote on a matter in which there is a conflict of interest, an abstention by a Commission member shall be recorded as an abstention and not as a negative vote.