(A) Standing committees.
(1) Unless otherwise ordered by the Common Council, the Mayor shall appoint, subject to the approval of the Council, at the first meeting of the newly elected Council, following their election in November, the following standing committees:
(a) Finance;
(b) Fire Department;
(c) Parks and playgrounds;
(d) Sanitation, waste collection and disposal and grievances;
(e) Streets, alleys, curbs, gutters and sidewalks;
(f) Remedial and storm sewers.
(2) Each such committee shall consist of not less than three Council members.
(B) Appointment of members of select committees. The Mayor shall appoint the members of all select committees which may be created by the Common Council from time to time.
(C) Discharge of select committees. A select committee of the Common Council, when its report, if made, is disposed of and it has no other business, stands dissolved without motion; provided, however, that an affirmative vote on recommitment by the Council has the effect of reviving such committee.
(D) Calling meetings. Meetings of committees of the Common Council may be called by either the chairman thereof or by any two of the members thereof.
(E) Chairperson. The chairperson of a particular committee of the Common Council shall be selected by the committee from among its members.
(F) Filling vacancies. Any vacancy that occurs in the membership of any committee of the Common Council shall be filled by the Mayor.
(G) Effect of minority report. The report of a minority of a committee of the Common Council shall be regarded as a proposed amendment to, or substitute for, the report of the committee.
(H) Right of Council member introducing matter to attend meetings. Whenever any matter has been referred to a committee of the Common Council, the Council member introducing the same, if he or she is not a member of the committee, shall have the right to meet with, and act as a member of, such committee during its deliberation thereon, but shall not be allowed to vote thereon.
(I) Amendments. A committee of the Common Council shall not erase, interline or blot any ordinance, resolution or other paper referred to it, but must enter upon separate paper any amendment it may propose, stating the words which it is proposed to insert or omit, by reference to page, line and words of the original paper.
(`94 Code, § 30.38)