HomeMy WebLinkAbout2003 Minutes April 11, 2007
Clerk of the City of Lansing, Michigan
9th Floor City Hall
124 W. Michigan Avenue
Lansing MI 48933
Dear Clerk of the City of Lansing, Michigan,
Subject:Memorial Review Board
Enclosed are the Minutes to the March meeting of
the MRB for you to file and all that other stuff.
Also find a copy of our Administrative rules for this
Board. These were passed in Nov. 2003 and you
should already have a copy but someone suggested
you could not find one. Please keep this permanently
in our folder.
Respectfully yours,
vlreve
William Hubbell
Chairman of the Memorial Review Bd.
City of Lansing, MI
Administrative Rules of Operation
Memorial Review Board
The Memorial Review Board shall vote annually on a schedule of meting times.
The meetings shall be held at these times unless cancelled for lack of agenda items or
rescheduled by consensus.
The Memorial Review Board shall annually elect a Chairperson and a Vice Chair or
vote to retain current officers.
At the Scheduled time of a meeting, the Chair shall act as presiding officer. If the chair
is absent the Vice Chair shall act as presiding officer.
If both are absent but a quorum is present, a presiding officer shall be decided upon by
consensus.
A quorum shall consist of three members or fifty percent of those appointed and duly
sworn in as members(whichever is greater). No meeting shall commence until a quorum
is present.
The presiding officer shall call the meeting to order and present the items on the
agenda.
When an agenda item is before the board the presiding officer shall recognize all
speakers and when in the opinion of the chair sufficient discussion has taken place shall
call for a motion to dispense with this item. Any board member may at this time
request further discussion. When a matter is voted on, the vote of a majority of those
members present shall be accepted as the decision of the board.
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During the meeting a staff person or someone designated by the presiding officer
shall take minutes.These minutes shall be approved or amended at the next meeting
and a copy made available to the City Clerk.
Any application before the board shall be handled in a manner consistent with
Ordinance 1034.09 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lansing.As stated in
section G1 thereof"Failure of the applicant to timely provide the information shall not
relieve the Memorial Review Board of it's obligation to make a report or
recommendation to council within ninety days of it's receipt of the application."
Upon completion of all specific agenda items any board member may bring other
matters for discussion.
When all matters have been discussed the presiding officer shall ask for a motion to
adjourn. If a majority of those members present vote to do so the meeting is adjourned.
Upon three consecutive unexcused absences it will be recommended to the Mayor that
the Mayors office will ask for that member's resignation.
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