File #: 21-0597    Version: 1 Name: COOK COUNTY LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Type: Ordinance Amendment Status: Filed
File created: 12/16/2020 In control: Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee
On agenda: 12/17/2020 Final action:
Title: PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT COOK COUNTY LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Sec. 2-107. - Board of Commissioners; meetings of the Board.
Sponsors: KEVIN B. MORRISON

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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT

 

COOK COUNTY LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

 

Sec. 2-107. - Board of Commissioners; meetings of the Board.

 

 

(i) Order of business.

 

(1) At each regular meeting of the Board, the order of business (unless otherwise directed by the Board) is as follows:

 

a. Public testimony.

b. New business.

c. Committee items requiring board action.

 

(2) All questions relating to the priority of business shall be decided by the presiding officer, without debate, subject to appeal.

 

(3) Meetings of the Board may commence with a prayer or invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance

 

(4) The County Board shall break for lunch from Noon to 12:45 p.m. or as soon as is practical thereafter on days of the Meeting of the Board of Commissioners, Committees, and Subcommittees.

 

(5)  The County Board shall commence full Board of Commissioner meetings with a Native American Land Acknowledgement that has had input from Native American residents of Cook County

 

Effective Date: This ordiance amendement shall be in effect immediately upon adoption

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