[Adopted as Ch. 2, Art. II, of the 1972 Code, as amended through 1990]
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Editor's Note: Former § 4-6, Authorization; empowerment; membership; elections; terms; qualifications, as amended was repealed 8-26-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-07. Former § 4-6.1, Filling Council vacancies, added 3-27-1995 by Ord. No. 595, was repealed 8-26-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-07.
A. 
The Mayor and members of the Common Council shall receive as full compensation for their respective services the sums provided therefor by ordinance. Changes in the salary of the Mayor and members of the Common Council may be made by ordinance, from time to time, but no ordinance effecting any such change shall become effective until it has been submitted to the electorate of the City at a regular or special municipal election and has been approved by the majority of the qualified voters of the City voting thereon at such election.
B. 
Salaries of the Mayor and members of the Common Council shall be paid in installments or otherwise, as provided by ordinance or resolution of the legislative body.
C. 
The salary of the Mayor of the City shall be $5,000 per annum. The salary of the President of the Common Council shall be $1,500 per annum. The salary of the members of the Common Council shall be $1,200 per annum.
D. 
From and after June 1, 1985, the salary of the Mayor of the City of Westminster shall be $10,000 per annum. From and after June 1, 1985, the salary of the President of the Common Council shall be $3,000 per annum. From and after June 1, 1985, the salary of members of the Common Council shall be $2,400 per annum.
E. 
Elected officials of the City shall be considered to be full-time employees for purposes of eligibility for noncash employment benefits.
[Added 8-11-2019 by Ord. No. 916]
No member of the legislative body, during the term for which he was elected, shall be eligible for appointment to any other City office for which any salary, emolument or other compensation is provided.
A. 
The Mayor and Common Council shall, by motion duly passed and entered in the minutes, fix the date and time of regular meetings of the legislative body.
B. 
Special meetings may be called at any time by the Mayor or by any two members of the Common Council, upon reasonable notice to all members not joining in the call.
C. 
At 7:00 p.m. on the third Monday in May of each odd-numbered year or, if such third Monday should fall upon a holiday, then the next succeeding business day, the newly elected and holdover members of the legislative body shall meet for the purpose of organizing the City government. The newly elected members shall file with the City Clerk the prescribed oath of office, and the legislative body shall then elect one of the Council members to the office of President of the Council. It shall then adopt such resolutions as provided in Subsection E of this section as it may consider appropriate, but all such then-existing resolutions not amended or repealed at this meeting shall continue in full force and effect. The legislative body shall then take such action as may be considered appropriate with respect to vacancies in City offices, which by law, the City Charter, this Code or other ordinance are required to be filled by the Mayor and Common Council, provided that such appointments shall be made by the Mayor with the approval of the Common Council.
[Amended 7-14-1997 by Ord. No. 619]
D. 
All meetings of the legislative body, whether regular, special or biennial, shall be open to the public at all times; but this shall not be construed to prevent the legislative body from holding executive sessions from which the public is excluded, but no ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation shall be finally adopted or approved at any such executive session.
E. 
The legislative body may, from time to time, adopt resolutions not inconsistent with state law, the City Charter or this Code providing for the order of business and rules of procedure at meetings, the appointment of standing and special committees and defining the jurisdiction, powers and duties of such committees and the conduct of its members at meetings; and such resolutions may impose penalties for the violation thereof by members and for unexcused absence from or tardiness in attendance at meetings.
The City Clerk shall keep a correct, official journal or minutes of all proceedings of the legislative body and shall enter therein, among other items, the yeas and nays upon final action on all ordinances, resolutions and questions or at any other time when the entry of yeas and nays is called for by any member. The City Clerk shall maintain a current file of reports, resolutions, ordinances, orders, proclamations and other acts of the Mayor and Common Council and shall certify to or attest to the correctness thereof when required or directed so to do by law, ordinance, regulation or resolution. He shall perform such other duties as the Mayor and Common Council shall, from time to time, require.