[RSMo. §79.230; Ord. No. 031698A §2, 4-6-1998; Ord. No. 021709A §1, 2-17-2009]
The Mayor, with the consent and approval of the majority of the members of the Board of Aldermen, shall have power to appoint a City Administrator, City Attorney and Chief of Police and such other officers as he may be authorized by ordinance to appoint, and if deemed for the best interests of the City, the Mayor and Board of Aldermen may, by ordinance, employ special counsel to represent the City, either in a case of a vacancy in the office of City Attorney or to assist the City Attorney, and pay reasonable compensation therefor.
[RSMo. §79.320]
The Board of Aldermen shall elect a Clerk for such Board, to be known as "The City Clerk", whose duties and term of office shall be fixed by ordinance. Among other things, the City Clerk shall keep a journal of the proceedings of the Board of Aldermen. He shall safely and properly keep all the records and papers belonging to the City which may be entrusted to his care; he shall be the general accountant of the City; he is hereby empowered to administer official oaths and oaths to persons certifying to demands or claims against the City.
[RSMo. §79.240; Ord. No. 05052014A §I, 5-5-2014]
The Mayor may, with the consent of a majority of all the members elected to the Board of Aldermen, remove from office, for cause shown, any elective officer of the City, such officer being first given opportunity, together with his witnesses, to be heard before the Board of Aldermen sitting as a Board of Impeachment. Any elective officer, including the Mayor, may in like manner, for cause shown, be removed from office by a two-thirds-vote of all members elected to the Board of Aldermen, independently of the Mayor's approval or recommendation. The Mayor may, with the consent of a majority of all the members elected to the Board of Aldermen, remove from office any appointive officer of the City at will, and any such appointive officer may be so removed by a two-thirds-vote of all the members elected to the Board of Aldermen, independently of the Mayor's approval or recommendation. The Board of Aldermen may pass ordinances regulating the manner of impeachments and removals. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the Mayor, with the consent of the majority of all the members elected to the Board of Aldermen, or the Board of Aldermen by a two-thirds-vote of all its members, to remove or discharge any chief, as that term is defined in Section 106.273, RSMo.
[RSMo. §79.250; Ord. No. 040307E §1, 4-3-2007]
A. 
All officers elected or appointed to offices under the City Government shall be voters under the laws and Constitution of this State and the ordinances of the City except that:
1. 
Appointed Police Officers, the City Attorney, the City Clerk, and other employees having only ministerial duties need not be voters of the City; and
2. 
The City Attorney need not be a voter of the City or the State of Missouri.
No person shall be elected or appointed to any office who shall at the time be in arrears for any unpaid City taxes or forfeiture or defalcation in office. All officers, except appointed Police Officers, the City Attorney, the City Clerk and other employees having only ministerial duties, shall be residents of the City.
[RSMo. §79.280]
If a vacancy occurs in any elective office, the Mayor or the person exercising the duties of the Mayor shall cause a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen to convene where a successor to the vacant office shall be selected. The successor shall serve until the next regular municipal election. If a vacancy occurs in any office not elective, the Mayor shall appoint a suitable person to discharge the duties of such office until the first (1st) regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen thereafter, at which time such vacancy shall be permanently filled.
[Ord. No. 091608 §1, 9-16-2008]
A. 
Members of appointed positions to any permanent boards, commissions or committees established by the Municipal Code (including but not necessarily limited to the Planning Commission, Park Board, Board of Adjustment and Tax Increment Financing Commission; but not including the Board of Aldermen) shall be subject to this Section.
B. 
Members of the appointed positions subject to this Section are allowed a total of three (3) unexcused absences in a calendar year.
C. 
Unexcused absences are those absences where there has been no advance notification to the assigned City staff member or Chairperson of that board, commission or committee advising them of a member's inability to attend a meeting and the member in question thereafter fails to attend.
D. 
Upon obtaining two (2) unexcused absences, the Chairperson of the respective board, commission or committee shall notify the member that the next unexcused absence will result in their removal from the appointed board, commission or committee.
E. 
Upon obtaining a third (3rd) unexcused absence, the member shall be immediately removed from the board, commission or committee in question and notified of the removal by the Mayor in writing. Further, the member shall be replaced in accordance with the relative Municipal Code Sections that establish and/or define the make-up of the board, commission or committee in question.
F. 
A "calendar year" shall be defined as a twelve (12) month period, beginning April fifteenth (15th) and running twelve (12) months hence.