39-17 Amend COde to Reflect Adoption of 3rd Amended Charter

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made in the Second Amended City Charter or the Codified Ordinances, shall be by posting copies thereof. Section 7. Section 109.01, Open Meetings, currently reading as follows: 109.01 OPEN MEETINGS. (a) Unless otherwise provided in the Codified Ordinances, all meetings of Council, the Board of Building Standards and Building Appeals, the Board of Zoning Appeals, the Board of Control, Civil Service Commission, the Planning Commission, the Citizens Advisory Committee and other similar public bodies of the City or other citizens' committees as may be appointed from time to time, shall be open to the public, unless an executive session is expressly authorized under the applicable provisions of State law. (b) Nothing herein contained shall mandate that any public body permit public participation in such meetings unless specifically required by the provisions of the Second Amended Charter or the Codified Ordinances. shall be repealed, and new Section 109.0 1, Open Meetings, shall be enacted to read as follows: 109.01 OPEN MEETINGS. (a) Unless otherwise provided in the Codified Ordinances, all meetings of Council, the Board of Building Standards and Building Appeals, the Board of Zoning Appeals, the Board of Control, Civil Service Commission, the Planning Commission, the Citizens Advisory Committee and other similar public bodies of the City or other citizens' committees as may be appointed from time to time, shall be open to the public, unless an executive session is expressly authorized under the applicable provisions of State law. (b) Nothing herein contained shall mandate that any public body permit public participation in such meetings unless specifically required by the provisions of the Second ,e.,mended Charter or the Codified Ordinances. Section 8. Section 111.01, Departmental Public Improvement Contracts, currently read- ing as follows: 111.01 DEPARTMENTAL PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTS. (a) Contracts for public improvements and work and repairs with respect to public improvements shall be awarded by the Director of Public Works up- on approval by Council. Adoption of an ordinance or resolution authorizing the preparation of plans or specifications, an ordinance or resolution author- izing the advertising of request for bids (where bidding shall be required) or any other ordinance or resolution which authorizes or approves the award of contracts, and specifies the limit to be spent, shall constitute the approval of Council required by Section 2 of Article V of the Charter and this section, except that any contract for an amount which exceeds the amount specified for a line item detailed in the ordinance or resolution shall not be valid or enforceable unless first specifically authorized by a separate resolution of Council.