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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 1989-09-14 Discussion Itemt0: YNR HONORABLE Y'IOTOK flR TUARR d MAYOR FROM: ATTY HIRAI City Clerk _ 18 6AM September it sUNACT.. vot iimsEa —ff- �Vb � REFERENCES: City Attorney Memorandum dated June ENCLOSURES: 1 1987 = t� e_ At the Commission meeting of September 14, 1989, you were absent during roll call on item 12. (NOTE: Pertinent agenda page attached hereto for your ready reference.) Upon your return to the meeting, you requested that I show you as voting with the motion on the above -cited item. The record will show, as in all other similar situations, that although you were absent during roll call, you requested of the Clerk to be shown voting with the motion. Kindly confirm. Upon receipt of your confirmation, we will proceed to affix the appropriate agenda notation reflecting your request, as follows: "ALTHOUGH ABSENT DURING ROLL CALL, VICE MAYOR DE YURRE REQUESTED OF THE CLERK TO BE SHOWN AS VOTING YES ON THE MOTION." Kindly acknowledge in the space provided hereinbelow by signing. ACKNOWLEDGED _ _ — TE __-- -- Vice M or Victor De r e to THE HONORABLE J.L. PLUMMER, JR. CO SSIONER FROM: MH:sl ENC: a/s • ATTY HIRAI City Clerk • CITY OP riBMISA .. . -, .. � I t F LJ St?. , _ IN1 RR.irFIcg MtMORANDUM 4 7H;Foo n4 DATE: SUBJECT: September 15, 1989 rnt: Voting While Absent During Roll Call REFERENCES: City Attorney Memorandum dated June ENCLOSURES 1, 1987 At the Commission meeting of September 14, 1989, you were absent during roll call on items 4, 5, and 10. (NOTE: Pertinent agenda pages attached hereto for your ready reference.) Upon your return to the meeting, you requested that I show you as voting with the motion on the above -cited item. The record will show, as in all other similar situations, that although you were absent during roll call, you requested of the Clerk to be shown voting with the motion. Kindly confirm. Upon receipt of your confirmation, we will proceed to affix the appropriate agenda notation reflecting your request, as follows: "ALTHOUGH ABSENT DURING ROLL CALL, COMMISSIONER PLUMMER REQUESTED OF THE CLERK TO BE SHOWN AS VOTING YES ON THE MOTION." Kindly acknowledge in the space prov d hereinbelow by signing. ACKNOWLEDGE sioner J.L. mer, Jr. DATE : _ 40 (.5 Sage7 TO THE HONORABLE J.L. PLUMMER, JR. CO • SSIONER FROM: MH:si ENC: a/s ATTY HIRAI City Clerk ACKNOWLEDGE 10) CITY OF MIAMI. Othlt 1d INTER , OFFICE MEMORANDUM e471.1 Pvl DA TE: SUBJECT: 1 ( r, . .. :Sil2:+ '. n f ! j t.t' , r z ;;EP. t r �?! t t p r September 15, 1989 rtia: Voting While Absent During Roll Call REFERENCES: City Attorney Memorandum dated June ENCLOSURES: 1 1987 At the Commission meeting of September 14, 1989, you were absent during roll call on items 4, 5, and 10. (NOTE: Pertinent agenda pages attached hereto for your ready reference.) Upon your return to the meeting, you requested that I show you as voting _with the motion on the above -cited item. The record will show, as in all other similar situations, that although you were absent during roll call, you requested of the Clerk to be shown voting with the motion. Kindly confirm. Upon receipt of your confirmation, we will proceed to affix the appropriate agenda notation reflecting your request, as follows: "ALTHOUGH ABSENT DURING ROLL CALL, COMMISSIONER PLUMMER REQUESTED OF THE CLERK TO BE SHOWN AS VOTING YES ON THE MOTION." Kindly acknowledge in a space prov e d hereinbelow by signing. sioner J.L. mer, Jr. t SI DA :_ t _d I tD 'WON Natty R City Lu is D• hasty City Attorney As you requested, this memorandum will confirm our advice previously stated on the reoord that members of the City Commission may only oast their votes on any item being oonsidered by them at the time the roll oall is being taken. No member may vote before the roll call; although, if a member of the Commission has to leave the meeting prior to the roll Dail, suoh member oould make a statement on the record to the effeot that "if I were able to remain for the roll oall, I would be voting (for)(against) this item ". The legal effeot 'of suoh a statement is nil and the statement is void of any operative effeot and the roll oall vote should reflect the member as being absent. Please note also that any member of the Commission oan vote on any item despite the faot that such member may not be in his or her seat at the time the roll call is being taken. So long as the member is within your earshot; i.e., within the range of your hearing, his or her vote should be recorded. To assist you, we are sending a copy hereof to the Mayor and eaoh Commissioner with the suggestion that an audible response be given by each of them to you at the time you address the member in the order of taking the vote. In the absence of suoh audible response, you should reoord the member's vote as you have interpreted his or her gesture (nodding of head, "thumbs up ", eto.) and announoe "Commissioner votes (yes)(no) ". In this manner, there will be a minimum possibility of error or mistake in the taking of any roll call vote and there will also be substantial compliance with the requirements of law. LAD:RPC:bss:P388 ' C11Y Or MIAMI. t 1.61111bA a ibt . .1N'tEit•OP iCE MLMONtANDWM co: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez Vioe -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner Rosario Kennedy 11 DATE • $ueJECT• REPERENCE$: cNCLosuoto June 1, 1087 rot City Commission Roll Cell on legislature items