[Adopted 2-1-1988; amended in its entirety 7-2-2018]
Rules of procedure for the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors
are established as provided in this article.
A. The Clerk for the Board shall prepare a preliminary agenda seven
days prior to each regularly scheduled meeting. The Chairperson may
approve the order of the items on the agenda or may rearrange the
order prior to its publication. The preliminary agenda shall provide
for a public comment period of 30 minutes. The period may be shortened
or extended at the meeting at the discretion of the Chairperson.
B. Not later than 3:30 p.m. on the Wednesday preceding a regularly scheduled
Monday meeting, and not later than 3:30 p.m. on the Friday preceding
a regularly scheduled Wednesday meeting, the preliminary agenda shall
be published to the members of the Board, the press, and the public
in the manner provided for by law.
C. Once published, the preliminary agenda shall be called the "Orders of the day" and contain the only subjects about which motions may be made and votes taken, except, however, as provided for in §
30-2.
Any member of the Board of Supervisors or any constitutional
officer may present matters not contained in the Orders of the day
to the Board of Supervisors. Any item presented after publication
of the Orders of the day will be called an addendum item. The addendum
item may be added to the Orders of the day by majority vote. A vote
on a motion proposing action on the addendum item will not have binding
effect unless there is a unanimous vote of the Board or a unanimous
vote of a quorum thereof. If the vote is not unanimous, the item shall
be continued to the preliminary agenda of the next regularly scheduled
meeting of the Board. Once contained in the Orders of the day for
that subsequent meeting, and when then considered, a majority vote
on the continued addendum item shall have binding effect. Nothing
herein shall be construed to prohibit binding action of the Board
taken at any special meeting during which any continued addendum item
is considered.