1997-01-15ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE
MINUTES
January 15, 1997
The Ordinance Review Committee held a regular meeting at Beverly City Hall on
Wednesday January 15, 1997 which meeting was called to order at 7:30 P.M.
PRESENT: Mary Grant, Jerry Parisella, Tom Alexander, Elizabeth LeBrun, Roy Gelineau
and Crystal Atherton..
The Committee discussed the fact that we are unable to complete our report which was
due one year from our date of appointment, January 6, 1997. Some members thought we
should request a formal extension of a month from the Mayor, the appointing authority for
this Committee. After discussion, it was decided that ifwe worked diligently overthe
next two weeks that we could finish out task and present the ordinances as we have
drafted them, knowing that we are an advisory committee only and that the ordinances we
draft must still stand the scrutiny of the council and the mayor.
We broke the work into four section which represent the four Articles of the new
Ordinances that we are proposing:
Article I. - General Provisions has been completed. All members have reviewed it and we
have sent our suggested changes to Atty. Curran.
Article II. We have all reviewed this section at one of our meetings; however, so much of
what was in the old ordinances no longer applies under the new Charter that we asked
Atty Curran to provide the Committee with samples from other Cities with a similar style
of government of how their Council sets up its Standing Committees. Atty Curran did
provide us with several sets of ordinances covering this area. Mary Grant agreed to
review all of this material and report back to the Committee.
Article III. Tom Alexander and Crystal Atherton agreed to met and go over the material
in this Article which covers Administrative Officas of the City including the Boards and
Commissions.
Article IV. Departments of the City. This is a very long section and covers all of the new
departments created both by the new Charter and by the Mayor' s Reorganization Plan.
We broke this into two sets of approximately 25 pages with Roy Gelineau reviewing and
reporting on the first set and Gerry Parisella the second half.
Elizabeth LeBrun offered to review the remainder of the old Ordinances and provide the
Committee with a synopsis of the work to be finished by the next Committee to be
appointed in January by the Council.
It was agreed to met again the following Wednesday, January 22, 1997 at 7 o'clock to
finish up our work.
Adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Crystal Atherton