[Ord. No. 353 §1, 2-15-1955; Ord.
No. 1992 §1, 12-11-2001; Ord. No. 2788, §§1—2, 11-18-2014]
No person shall be an Alderman unless he/she be at least eighteen
(18) years of age, a citizen of the United States and an inhabitant
and resident of the City for at least one (1) year next preceding
his/her election, and a resident of the ward from which he/she is
elected. A resident of a newly annexed area who will have been a resident
of that area (continuously) for at least a year on the date of the
next municipal election shall be deemed to have been a resident of
the City for that period. This provision is for the purpose of eligibility
for municipal office only.
[Ord. No. 353 §2, 2-15-1955]
The Board of Aldermen shall be composed of two (2) Aldermen
from each ward; and in the absence of the Mayor shall be presided
over by the Acting President of the Board.
[Ord. No. 353 §3, 2-15-1955; Ord.
No. 2788, §§3—4, 11-18-2014]
At the first regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen following
the City election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday
in April, the Board shall select one (1) of their own members who
shall be styled "Acting President of the Board of Aldermen," who shall,
in the absence of the Mayor, perform the duties of Mayor, with all
the rights, duties, powers and privileges appertaining thereto.
[Ord. No. 1232 §1, 7-30-1991; Ord. No. 2273 §1, 7-18-2006]
A.
The
appointed times for regular Board of Aldermen meetings shall be the
first and third Tuesdays of every month at 7:00 P.M. If the date for
any scheduled regular meeting falls on a day recognized by the City
of Parkville as a holiday, the meeting shall be rescheduled to the
day following the scheduled date.
B.
If the date is to be changed for any other reason, the Mayor may reschedule a meeting, provided there is twenty-four (24) hours' notice prior to the new date and/or time as required by Section 103.020. Media who regularly attend Board meetings shall be notified as soon as the replacement date is known.
[Ord. No. 2788 §§5—6, 11-18-2014]
C.
These
provisions shall not apply to special meetings.
[Ord. No. 353 §5, 2-15-1955; Ord.
No. 2788, §§7—8, 11-18-2014]
On the third Tuesday of April of each year, the Board of Aldermen
shall meet at 7:00 P.M. in the City Hall for the purpose of canvassing
the votes cast at the City election on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in April and determine and declare the results of such
election; and at the same meeting the Board of Aldermen shall direct
the City Clerk to issue a certificate of election to each person declared
by said Board to be elected to any office of the City, and provide
for the installation of the Mayor (if a Mayor shall have been elected
at such election) and Aldermen elected, and for the conduct of such
other business as may properly come before said meeting. Thereafter,
on the same evening, the Mayor elect, if a Mayor has been elected
at the preceding election, and the Aldermen shall be installed as
officers of the City, and the new Board shall proceed to organize
and transact any business that may properly come before it.
[Ord. No. 353 §7, 2-15-1955]
The Board of Aldermen may hold adjourned meetings at any time,
which shall, to all intents and purposes be continuations of the meetings
of which they are adjournments, and the same proceedings may be held
as at the meeting of which they are adjournments.
[Ord. No. 353 §8, 2-15-1955]
A majority of the Board of Aldermen shall constitute a quorum,
and it is necessary that a quorum be present before any business is
transacted.
[Ord. No. 353 §9, 2-15-1955]
The Mayor, or any two (2) members of the Board of Aldermen,
may call a special meeting at any time by notifying all of the members
of the Board twenty-four (24) hours in advance, at which meeting any
and all business shall be transacted as at regular meetings.
[Ord. No. 353 §10, 2-15-1955; Ord.
No. 1232 §1, 7-30-1991]
Every regular or special meeting of the Board of Aldermen shall
be held at the City Hall in the City of Parkville and shall open at
7:00 P.M. unless a different hour shall be specified by rule or resolution
of the Board.
[Ord. No. 353 §13, 2-15-1955; Ord.
No. 2788, §§9—10, 11-18-2014]
The Board of Aldermen shall cause to be kept a Journal of its
proceedings, and the ayes and nays shall be entered on any question
at the request of any two (2) members. The Board of Aldermen may prescribe
and enforce such rules as it may find necessary for the expeditious
transaction of its business.
[Ord. No. 353 §14, 2-15-1955]
The resignation by a member of the Board shall be addressed
to the Mayor.
[Ord. No. 353 §15, 2-15-1955]
No member of the Board of Aldermen shall be permitted to vote
for or against any bill in anywise appropriating money or approving
any contract in which said member is directly or indirectly interested
pecuniarily.
[Ord. No. 353 §16, 2-15-1955; Ord.
No. 2788, §§11—12, 11-18-2014]
The Board of Aldermen shall semiannually each year, at times
set by the Board of Aldermen, make out and spread upon its records
an account and statement of all receipts and expenditures and indebtedness
of the City for the half year ending December 31 and June 30 preceding
the date of such report, which account and statement shall be published
in some newspaper in the City.
[Ord. No. 353 §17, 2-15-1955]
The Board of Aldermen shall have power to compel the attendance
of witnesses and the production of papers and records relating to
any subject under consideration in which the interest of the City
is involved and shall have power to call on the proper officers of
the City, or of the County in which such City is located, to execute
such process. The office making such service shall be allowed to receive
therefor such fees as are allowed by law in the Circuit Court for
similar services, to be paid by the City. The Mayor or Acting President
of the Board of Aldermen shall have power to administer oaths to witnesses.
[Ord. No. 353 §18, 2-15-1955]
Board of Aldermen shall have power to fix the compensation of
all the officers and employees of the City, by ordinance.
[Ord. No. 353 §19, 2-15-1955]
The Board of Aldermen shall from time to time provide by ordinance
for the levy and collection of all taxes and licenses, and within
a reasonable time after the copy of the assessment of the taxable
property of the City is obtained from the County Clerk, ascertain
the amount of money to be raised thereon for general and other purposes
and fix the annual rate of levy therefor by ordinance.
[Ord. No. 353 §20, 2-15-1955]
The Board of Aldermen shall have and is hereby granted power,
authority and the right to issue bonds for the erection or purchase
of public buildings, marketplaces, bridges, water works, electric
light plants and ice plants, public parks, and other improvements,
and for the establishment and maintenance of a Fire Department, provided
any and all bonds issued hereunder shall be issued in the manner and
within the limits provided by Sections 95.120 to 95.160, Chapter 95,
RSMo., 1949.
[Ord. No. 353 §21, 2-15-1955; Ord.
No. 2788, §§13—14, 11-18-2014]
The Board of Aldermen shall have the power to levy, annually,
taxes upon all taxable property within the City in addition to other
taxes, in a sufficient amount for the purpose of paying the interest
and principal as may become due on all bonds now issued and outstanding,
and such taxes shall be collected in the same manner and time as other
taxes. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall also have power, by ordinance,
to issue bonds payable in one (1) year, to an amount not exceeding
half the current revenue for the fiscal year, and also to issue bonds
in renewal of other bonds of the City maturing for the requisite amount
and which the City has no fund to pay; provided, however, that such
renewal bonds shall not bear a greater average rate of interest than
did the original bonds and shall not run for a longer time than ten
(10) years. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen shall have power, by ordinance,
to issue bonds for the purpose of extinguishing or paying off any
indebtedness against the City; provided such indebtedness has been
contracted by and with the consent of the constitutionally required
percentage of the voters voting in favor of the question and declared
by any court of competent jurisdiction to be a legal and valid indebtedness,
and which has or may hereafter become a judgment against the City.
The aggregate amount of such judgment and existing indebtedness shall
not exceed the constitutional limit of the City, and such bonds shall
not bear any greater rate of interest than the rate per annum permitted
by law and shall not run for a longer time than twenty years.
[Ord. No. 353 §22, 2-15-1955]
For the purpose of paying the cost of the construction or reconstruction
of any sewer, boulevard, street, alley, sidewalk, or other local improvements,
the Board of Aldermen shall have and is hereby granted power, authority
and the right, by ordinance, duly enacted, to create assessment districts,
defining the boundaries thereof, and to levy special assessments against
the private property included within such assessment districts, and
to issue special tax bills pursuant thereto.
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Editor's Note: Former Section 105.200, Every Aldermen —
Conservator of The Peace, was repealed by Ord. No. 3201, 11-7-2023. Prior history includes: Ord.
No. 353.
[Ord. No. 372 §§1—8, 3-19-1957; Ord.
No. 2788, §§15—16, 11-18-2014]
The Rules of Order for the Board of Aldermen, adopted by resolution,
are on file in the office of the City Clerk for inspection by the
public.
