It shall be the duty of the Council to meet statedly at least once a month. Council may adjourn to a stated time for general business or for special business. If no quorum is present at a regular or adjourned meeting, a majority of those who do meet may agree upon another date for a meeting to consider like business and may continue so to agree until the meeting is held. Special meetings may be called by the President of Council and shall be called upon written request of at least one-third of the members thereof. Members of the Council and the Mayor shall have at least 24 hours' written notice of such special meetings. The notice shall state whether it is for general or special purposes, and if it is for special purposes, the notice shall contain a statement of the nature of the business to be considered. Presence at a meeting constitutes waiver of notice of such meeting.
Council shall make and preserve minutes and records of its proceedings. These records shall be open for public inspection during usual business hours.
All official meetings of the Council shall be open for public attendance. Notice of all regular meetings and, where time permits, of all special and adjourned meetings shall be published in a newspaper circulating generally within the Borough. All official votes of the Council shall be taken openly.
The Council shall, by ordinance, adopt rules of procedure for its meetings and for assignment of members to committees. Such rules shall be designed so as to assure full and equal participation in the deliberation of the Council by all its members.
A majority of the members of the Council shall constitute a quorum. The Council shall conduct no business except in the presence of a quorum.
The action of a majority of the Councilmen present and entitled to vote, unless otherwise stated in this Charter, shall be binding upon and constitute the action of the Council.
Official actions of the Council may be taken by enactment of an ordinance, of a resolution or by motion. All ordinances and resolutions must be in written form. All actions of a legislative character shall be taken by ordinance. All other actions of the Council shall be by resolution or motion, unless otherwise required in this Charter or in the ordinance establishing the rules of councilmanic procedure. However, no such action shall be void or otherwise adversely affected if it shall have been taken by ordinance. All final action in adopting ordinances or resolutions shall be by roll-call vote, and the vote of each member of the Council shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting.
The Council shall provide a place on the agenda of every regular, special and adjourned meeting for interested citizens and taxpayers of the Borough, or their authorized agents, to address the Council on matters of personal or public concern. Whenever a petition shall be presented to the Council, signed by registered electors of the Borough comprising at least 2% of the electors voting at the most recent municipal election, requesting that the Council consider and take action on the subject matter of the petition, it shall be the duty of the Council to place the subject matter thereof on its agenda for a regular or special meeting taking place within two months after receipt of the petition. At such meeting, the Council shall consider and take action on such subject matter; provided, however, that the same subject matter shall not be presented to the Council by petition pursuant to this section more often than one time in any two-year period; and, provided further, that this section is not intended to prevent any individual or group of individuals from petitioning or addressing the Council in any other lawful manner.