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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, February 22, 2016 Page 17 Mr. Guidetti replied, the Charter has more broad adaptability. I have not read this draft, but I am assuming it is more specific and governs specific scenarios that the Charter or Ordinances do not go into that much detail. Mr. Williams gave an example of the Committee assignments. They are made up before the voting in of Council President. % Council President Saponaro agreed. The way it should be is Council President gets voted in and he makes the Council Committee assignments after he has had an opporiunity to discuss them individually with each Council member. That makes more sense. Mrs. Mills stated, with regard to the standing rules, organizations that I belong to have standing rules. We tryto live by those standing rules mainly because standing rules can be changed as a group. Mr. Williams referred to the Term Expiration List which was prepared listing Council Coxnmittees and members of those Committees. Mr. Guidetti stated, there is some difference between a Council Commiftee and a Committee discussed elsewhere in the Ordinance in some scenarios. That may be part of the discrepancy. . Mr. Jerame stated, we were so used to doing it the old way. Moving forward, Committee assignments should move forward through the end of the year and once the new Council - President is elected or re-elected, they may change, they may stay the same. Dr. Parker stated, there will be a transition point where they stay the same during the beginning of the year. _ Council President Saponaro stated, it is important to give all of Council a choice as to which Committees they wish to sit on. The Council President for that year should go to each Council member individually after the organizational meeting. Dr. Parker;stated, because we had the same Council President so many years in a row, he would talk to us in December and find out what Committee we wished to serve on and. make the decision based on those discussions. In reality, it should be a decision made by the current Council President. Council President Saponaro agreed. I will talk to everyone individually about the Rules and Assignments. Mr. Jerome stated, if someone cannot attend a Council meeting or is running late, they should either call you or Mary Beth as the point person. Council President Saponaro stated, Mary Beth is the point person that we all should contact. Mr. Jerome mentioned transcription. of Minutes and the format for same for consistency. It would be nice if there were rules on the transcription of Minutes.