It is recommended that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance to amend Chapter 20, Article II, Division 4, Section 20-66 and Division 5, Section 20-97, of the City's Code of Ordinance to make it consistent with other similar ordinances, longstanding and current practice, and to eliminate redundancies by excluding language requiring Dance Hall and Pool Hall Permits to be signed and sealed by the assessor-collector of taxes.

The purpose of this Mayor and Council Communication (M&C) is to remove language in Article II of Chapter 20 of the City Code relating to Dance Hall and Pool Hall Permits that is considered unnecessary and inconsistent with current practice.

The City's Department of Financial Management Services, Revenue Section, issues a variety of City Permits including Dance Hall and Pool Hall Permits. Under the current practice, all permits are produced from the City's legacy financial management system and none of the permits produced have ever been formatted to include a signature or City seal. Article II, contains language requiring Dance Hall and Pool Hall Permits to have the City seal and the signature of the Assessor-Collector of taxes applied to them. There are no distinct or compelling reasons in the Article supporting this differentiation for these two types of permits.

As the City prepares to replace its long-serving financial management system used to produce permits with the ERP and point-of-sale systems to improve controls, gain efficiency, and streamline the permitting process, Staff is recommending that the City Council amend the ordinance to repeal the language "signed and sealed by the assessor-collector of taxes" from Dance Hall and Pool Hall permit contents requirements.

This M&C does not request approval of a contract with a business entity.