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Public Utility District
Memorandum
To: Board of Directors
From: Peter Holzmeister
Date: July 12, 2007
Subject: Ordinance changing time of regular Board meetings
Why this matter is before the Board: This matter involves adopting an ordinance
amending the District By-Laws changing a start time of regular Board meetings to 6:00
PM (current practice is 7:00 PM).
History: A proposal was recently brought before the Board to change the start time for
regular Board meetings to 6:00 PM, rather than the current 7:00 PM. The reason given
in support of the proposal was that Board meetings have become quite lengthy. It has
been common for a Board meeting to last until 11:00 PM and later. After 10:00 PM, it is
difficult for directors to maintain the level of concentration that agenda items deserve.
Also, now that meetings are televised for the purpose of allowing the public to observe
the Board's action, we are in fact losing viewers after 10:00 PM. Finally, virtually all
other elected Boards in Truckee begin their meetings at 6:00 PM or earlier. The
proposal to make this change was put to a motion and passed. However, the passage
of that motion is not, in itself, sufficient to change the start time. An ordinance needs to
be adopted.
New information: By this point in the agenda, the Board has hopefully conducted the
scheduled public hearing. Attached is the draft ordinance.
Recommendation: I recommend that the Board adopt the ordinance amending the
District By-Laws to change the time of regular Board meetings to 6:00 PM.
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0 dinance No. 2007 - XXX
AMENDING ORDINANCE 9502
BY LAWS OF THE DISTRICT AND
TITLE 2 OF THE ADMINISTRATION CODE:
TIME OF REGULAR BOARD MEETINGS
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the Board of Directors of the Truckee Donner Public Utility
District as follows:
1. Section 2.04.020 of the District Code of Regulations shall be amended to read as follows:
2.04.20 Time of Meeting—The time for regular meetings of the Board is the first and third Wednesday
of each month at 6:00 P.M. If and when said Wednesday falls on a legal holiday, then said regular
meeting shall be held at 6:00 P.M. on a date to be determined by the Board.
2. All ordinances or other actions adopted by the Board of Directors that are inconsistent with this
ordinance shall be repealed insofar as they are inconsistent.
3. That the Deputy District Clerk of the District be directed to public this ordinance in accordance with
the laws of the State of California.
4. That this ordinance shall be come effective after the lapse of thirty (30) days from the date of
adoption of this ordinance.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of the Truckee Donner Public Utility District in a
meeting duly called and held within said District on the 18th day of July, 2007.
AYES:
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
TRUCKEE DONNER PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
Tim F. Taylor, President
ATTEST:
Peter L. Holzmeister, District Clerk