Legal Review Committee Agenda and Packet 2017 09 28

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DRAFT 9/22/17 the necessity of reading. A copy of the communication shall be posted at the meeting for the public to review. Anonymous written communications will not be accepted into the record. F. ACTION: The Council shall act only by ordinance, resolution, or motion. Each action shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting. The Council may select the appropriate form for its action, except where a specific form is required by the Charter. G. VOTING: 1. Resolutions and motions require the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Council present. 2. The final adoption of any ordinance shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Council. 3. Any member of the Council absent from a quasi-judicial hearing of the Council shall not vote on the matter(s) that were the subject of such hearing, unless the member of Council has first listened to or viewed the audio tape of the 4. A members of the Council shall not attend or watch any quasi-judicial hearing of any lower tribunal of the City in which the lower tribunal considers any matter which may be submitted to Council through the hearing process or an appeal unless the member of the Council is a party to or applicant in that proceeding; if a member of the Council does attend such a hearing, he or she shall recuse himself or herself from consideration of the matter if it comes before the Council. 5. No member of the Council shall vote on any matter concerning the member's own conduct or statements. 6. Each member of the Council's vote on an ordinance or resolution shall be recorded in the minutes. H. ORDINANCE REQUIRED: the following acts of the Council shall be by ordinance: 1. Authorizing the borrowing of money, imposing a new tax, increasing a tax rate, or approving a lease -purchase agreement. 2. Approving any transfer of fee ownership in real property owned by the City; Louisville City Council Rules of Procedure page 8 adopted 12