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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

A Public Hearing on the following proposed Ordinance as amended in Committee will be held before the City Council on Monday, June 24, 2013 at 7 p.m., Council Chamber, , 869 Park Avenue Cranston, R.I. pursuant to Section 3.12 of the Charter.

A complete copy of the proposed Ordinance is available for public review at the City Clerk’s Office and the Cranston Central Library and on the City’s website cranstonri.com under calendar by clicking on the meeting date, then docket

“Individuals requesting interpreter services for the hearing impaired must notify the City Clerk’s Office at

461-1000 ext. 3197 seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the hearing date.”

John E. Lanni, Jr., Maria Medeiros Wall, JD

Council President City Clerk

PROPOSED ORDINANCE 5-13-3

IN AMENDMENT OF TITLE 3, OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CRANSTON, 2005 , ENTITLED “REVENUE AND FINANCE”

(Tax Assessment Board of Review Compensation)

*As amended in Finance Committee June 13, 2013

It is ordained by the City Council of the City of Cranston as follows:

Section 1. Title 3, Chapter 8 , Section 3.08.0050 entitled “Tax Assessment Board of Review” is hereby amended as follows:

3.08.050 - Tax assessment board of review.

A. All appraisals done for or on behalf of the tax assessment board of review of the city, shall be completed in accordance with Section 3.08.040 of the code.

B. The Tax Assessment Board of Review shall be comprised of three members and two alternates. When an alternate member sits in the place of a member, said alternate member shall be compensated at the same rate as the member.

B. C. The tax assessment board of review members are [not] to be paid *fifty dollars ($50.00) per meeting $1,250.00 per year , subject to the following conditions, and alternates shall be paid $25.00 per meeting when sitting as a member:

1. A meeting is conducted in accordance with the Open Meetings statutes of Rhode Island state law and other applicable statutes.

2. Organizational meetings shall not be allowed for compensation purposes.

3. Meetings shall be of no less than one hour duration and shall have specific items to be considered and voted upon.

*4. Minutes shall be kept of each meeting including the reasons for denial or approval of each appeal

4. 5. There shall be no more than one meeting per day with a maximum of twenty-five (25) per calendar year.

5.6. Meetings exceeding five per calendar month shall require written approval of the city council president or the chairperson of the city council’s finance committee.]

*7. No person shall serve more than six consecutive years on the Tax Assessment Board of Review.

Section 2: This Ordinance shall take effect on July 1, 2013.

Sponsored by:

Council President Lanni

6/20/13

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