The County Post - West is hereby designated
as the official newspaper of the City of Weyauwega, Wisconsin, and
all ordinances, notices and proceedings of said City required by law
to be published shall be published in the official newspaper.
The Alderpersons of the City of Weyauwega shall
constitute the City Council. The City Council shall be vested with
all the powers of the City not specifically given some other officer,
as well as those powers set forth elsewhere throughout this Code.
The City Council at its first meeting subsequent
to the regular election and qualification of new members shall, after
organization, annually choose from its members a President who, in
the absence of the Mayor, shall preside at meetings of the Council
and, during the absence or inability of the Mayor, shall have the
powers and duties of the Mayor, except that he/she shall not have
power to approve an act of the Council which the Mayor has disapproved
by filing objections with the City Administrator. He/she shall, when
so officiating, be styled "Acting Mayor." The President of the Council
shall be elected for a one-year term of office.
The City Council, on behalf of the City, may
join with other villages, towns, or cities or other governmental entities
in a cooperative arrangement for executing any power or duty in order
to attain greater economy or efficiency, including joint employment
of appointive officers and employees and joint purchasing programs.
The City Council has the power to preserve order
at its meetings, compel attendance of Alderpersons and punish nonattendance.
The City Council shall be judge of the election and qualification
of its members.
[Amended 3-19-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-02; 10-18-2010 by Ord. No.
2010-05; 11-21-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-4; 3-18-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-1]
A. Salary determination. The Mayor and Alderpersons who make up the
City Council, whether operating under general or special law, may,
by majority vote of all the members of the City Council, determine
that an annual salary or per diem compensation be paid the Mayor and
Alderpersons. Salaries heretofore established shall so remain until
changed by ordinance and shall not be increased or diminished during
their terms of office.
B. Establishment of salaries for elected officials.
(1) The salary of the Mayor of the City of Weyauwega is hereby fixed
at the sum of $2,500 per year, and the salary of each Alderperson
of the City is fixed at the sum of $1,000 per year.
(2) The salaries of the Mayor and City Council shall be paid in monthly
installments.
(3) All council members attending meetings of committees shall receive
a $80 per diem per day. The Mayor attending commission or committee
meeting shall receive a $80 per diem per day.
Except as provided in § 19.85, Wis.
Stats., all meetings of the City Council, committees thereof, and
City boards, committees and commissions shall be open to the public.
The following procedures shall be followed at
public hearings and may also be followed when citizen input is necessary
during regular items of business before the City Council:
A. The presiding officer shall generally call on those
persons who wish to speak on the matter or call initially on those
persons who wish to speak for the proposition. Each person wishing
to speak for the proposition shall give his or her name and address.
B. Each person speaking initially on the matter or specifically
on behalf of the proposition shall be limited in time to five minutes.
C. The presiding officer shall then call on those persons
who wish to oppose the proposition if the presiding officer has first
asked for only those favoring the proposition to speak.
D. Each such person speaking in opposition to the proposition
shall give his or her name and address and shall also be limited to
five minutes.
E. Any person wishing to speak in rebuttal to any statements
made may, with the permission of the presiding officer, do so; provided,
however, that such rebuttal statement shall be limited to three minutes
by any one individual.
F. When the presiding officer in his/her discretion is
satisfied that the proposition has been heard, he/she shall announce
the fact that the hearing is concluded.