[Ord. No. 83 §2, 6-21-1982; Ord. No. 443 §1, 9-6-1994; Ord. No. 511 §1, 6-17-1996; Ord. No. 781 §1, 5-2-2005; Ord. No. 1089 § 1, 7-17-2017; Ord. No. 1093 § 1, 8-30-2017]
A. 
The City Council of the City shall meet in regular session in the Council room of the City Hall at the hour of 7:00 P.M. on the first (1st) and third (3rd) Monday of each month.
B. 
If any regular session falls on a holiday, as designated in Section 125.150 of the Code, the session shall not be held at said time. Instead, the session shall be held on the following Tuesday at 7:00 P.M.
C. 
The City Council may, by motion, dispense with any regular session, but at least one (1) session must be held in each calendar month.
[CC §24.020]
A. 
Special meetings may be called by the Mayor or by any two (2) members of the Council by written request filed with the City Clerk, who shall thereupon prepare a notice of such special meeting, stating time, place and object thereof, which notice shall be serviced personally upon each member of the Council or left at his usual place of residence at least twenty-four (24) hours before the time of the meeting. It shall also be the duty of the City Clerk, immediately upon receipt of the request for the meeting, to make diligent effort to notify each member of the Council in person, either by telephone or otherwise, of such special session.
1. 
The City Clerk shall make a diligent effort to notify those members of the mass media who customarily attend meetings of the City Council of the special session, in the same manner as described above.
2. 
Failure to comply with the requirements of this Section shall not invalidate any action taken at a special meeting of the City Council.
[Ord. No. 1097, 10-2-2017]
Subunits of the City may be called by the chairman or president of the subunit or any two (2) members of the subunit, with notification to the City Clerk, who in turn shall notify each member of the subunit. The person calling the meeting shall provide the Clerk with the proposed agenda, date, time and place of the meeting and the Clerk shall post the appropriate notices in compliance with Missouri Sunshine Law. A subunit of the City consist of any committees, boards, or other organizations comprising two (2) or more members created by ordinance or Statute.
[CC §24.030]
A quorum of the City Council shall consist of a majority of the full membership (including vacancies and the Mayor of the City).
[CC §24.040]
In case that a lesser number than a quorum shall convene at a regular or special meeting of the City Council, the majority of the members present are authorized to direct the Chief of Police or other City Officer to send for and compel the attendance of any or all absent members upon such terms and conditions and at such time as such majority of the members present shall agree.
[CC §24.045]
All adjourned meetings of the Council shall, to all intents and purposes, be continuations of the meetings of which they are adjournments, and the same proceedings may be had at such adjourned meetings as at the meeting of which they are adjournments.
[CC §24.050]
A. 
At the hour designated for Council meetings, the Mayor shall call the City Council to order, and he shall act as President of the Council.
B. 
The Mayor shall appoint all Committees, subject to the concurrence of the City Council, the appointment of election of which is not otherwise provided for by this Code or other ordinance.
[CC §24.055]
In the absence of the Mayor, the Council shall elect one (1) of their own number to occupy the place temporarily, who shall be styled "Acting President of the City Council".
[CC §24.060; Ord. No. 1079 § 3, 5-1-2017]
A. 
When any vacancy shall happen in the office of Mayor by death, resignation, removal from the City, removal from office, refusal to qualify or from any other cause whatever, the Acting President of the City Council shall, for the time being, perform the duties of Mayor, with all the rights, privileges, powers and jurisdiction of the Mayor, until such vacancy is filled or such disability is removed; or, in case of temporary absence, until the Mayor's return.
B. 
In the event of temporary absence of the Mayor, the acting president of the Council (Mayor Pro Tem) is authorized to sign orders, drafts and checks drawn on the City Treasury and cause the City Clerk to keep an accurate record thereof in a book to be provided for that purpose.
[CC §24.065]
Except as otherwise provided by law or ordinance, the proceedings of the City Council shall be controlled by Robert's Rules of Order, as revised.
[CC §24.070]
The Presiding Officer of the City Council shall preserve decorum and shall decide all questions of order subject to appeal to the City Council. Any member may appeal to the Council from a ruling of the Presiding Officer upon a question of order. If the motion for an appeal is seconded, the member making the appeal may briefly state his reason for the same and the Presiding Officer may briefly express his ruling, but there shall be no debate on the appeal and no other member shall participate in the discussion. The Presiding Officer shall then put the question to vote as to whether the decision of the chair shall be sustained. If a majority of the members present vote "aye", the ruling of the chair is sustained; otherwise, it is overruled.
[CC §24.076; Ord. No. 718 §2, 3-17-2003; Ord. No. 944 §2, 3-5-2012]
A majority of the entire Council shall be required to vote in favor of any ordinance before it shall be passed and a majority of the whole Council shall be required to vote in favor of the expenditures of any amount of money in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00); however, such other business of the City may be conducted by a majority vote of those present at the meeting.
[CC §24.077]
Any business may be called up out of the regular order by the consent of a majority of the members present.
[CC §24.078]
Every member of the City Council shall be required to vote on all questions stated by the chair unless he be excused from voting by permission of the Council or unless he be directly or indirectly interested in the question stated.
[CC §24.079]
If a member of the City Council shall appear at the meeting after the roll call or shall leave the meeting before the meeting is adjourned, the fact that such occurred shall be noted by the Clerk upon the record.
[CC §24.080]
No member of the City Council may leave the Council chamber while in regular or special session without permission from the Presiding Officer.
[1]
Editor's Note — Ord. no. 534 enacted October 7, 1996, repealed section 135.160 without any provisions for its replacement. Said former section derived from CC §24.090 and ord. no. 313 §9, 10-1-1990. We have left this section reserved for the city's future use.
[CC §24.100]
Any member of the City Council shall have the right to express dissent from or protest against any ordinance or resolution of the Council and to have the reason therefor entered upon the journal. Such dissent or protest must be filed in writing and presented to the Council not later than the next regular meeting following the date of the passage of the ordinance or resolution to which objection is taken.
[CC §24.110]
All meetings of the Council shall be open to the public, except when permitted by law the Council may hold a closed meeting.
[CC §24.120]
A. 
All ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in the City Council in written form with the name of the Councilman introducing the same endorsed thereon. All proposed ordinances shall be prepared by the City Attorney or bear his certification that they are in correct form. A copy thereof shall be sent to each member of the City Council in advance of the meeting, to which copy shall be attached a brief resume of the bill together with the reasons for the introduction thereof (as prepared by the proponent thereof), and if any amendment of an existing ordinance is proposed, the nature of the change sought to be made. Failure to follow the procedure shall not invalidate any ordinance or resolution adopted by the City Council.
B. 
Whenever this Code shall be amended, the title of each amendatory ordinance, adapted to the particular circumstances and purposes of the amendment, shall be substantially as follows:
1. 
To amend any Section,
"AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION _____ (or SECTIONS _____ AND _____) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF _______________."
2. 
To insert a new Section, Article, Chapter or Title:
"AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF THE CITY OF _______________ BY ADDING A NEW SECTION (or NEW SECTIONS, A NEW ARTICLE, A NEW CHAPTER, or A NEW TITLE, as the case may be) WHICH NEW SECTION (SECTIONS, ARTICLE, CHAPTER or TITLE) SHALL BE DESIGNATED AS SECTION _____ (or SECTIONS _____ AND _____) OF CHAPTER _____ OF TITLE _____ (or proper designation if a Chapter or Title is added) OF SAID CODE."
3. 
To repeal a Section, Chapter or Title:
"AN ORDINANCE TO REPEAL SECTION _____ (SECTIONS _____ AND _____, CHAPTER _____, TITLE _____, etc., as the case may be) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF _______________."
[CC §24.130]
Upon the announcement of a second (2nd) reading of any bill, if there are objections to it, the question shall be put by the Chairman, "Shall the proposal be rejected?" If a majority of the Council vote in favor of rejection, the bill shall be defeated.
[CC §24.140]
Any bill shall be subject to amendment until the vote upon final passage.
[CC §24.150]
On the final passage of every ordinance, the "ayes" and "nays" shall be recorded in the record.
[CC §24.160]
All special committees shall be appointed by the Mayor of the City unless otherwise ordered by a majority of the Council. By consent of a majority of the Council, a special committee may be appointed at any time to hold public hearings for the Council upon any matter pending before it. A special committee is a committee composed of members of the City Council; the concurrence of the Council shall not be required as to the membership of the special committee, unless the Council shall order otherwise.
[CC §24.170]
The City Council 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 member.
[CC §24.180]
The City Council may by resolution prescribe and enforce such rules as it may find necessary for the expeditious transaction of its business, but such rules shall not contravene the requirements of this Code or other ordinance.
[CC §24.190]
The City Council 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. Such Officer (other than a City Officer) shall 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 City Council shall have power to administer oaths to witnesses.
[CC §24.200]
Any rule of the Council may be repealed, altered or amended by a majority vote of the members. Every amendment offered shall lie on the table until the next meeting of the Council before being voted upon except by the unanimous consent of all elected members of the City Council (including the Mayor). Any rule may be suspended by a majority vote of the members of the Council, or quorum being present by unanimous consent.
[Ord. No. 669 §1, 9-18-2000]
The Mayor, City Administrator and all members of the City Council may attend all meetings of any boards, committees, or commissions appointed by the Mayor and/or approved by the City Council. No City board, committee or commission shall prohibit attendance of the City Administrator, Mayor or Council members at any meetings closed to the public under the provision of Chapter 610 of the Missouri Statutes. The Chairman of any board, committee or commission holding a closed meeting shall determine whether or not the City Administrator, Mayor or Council persons shall be allowed to be heard if they so desire.