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City of Pleasant Valley, MO
Clay County
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[Ord. No. 2750 §§1 — 2, 6-30-2006]
A. 
There is hereby created the position of City Clerk/TIF Manager, to be elected by the Board of Aldermen, whose duties and term of office shall be set by ordinance.
B. 
All references in this Code to "City Clerk" shall hereby refer to "City Clerk/TIF Manager".
[1]
Editor's Note — Ord. no. 2827 §1, adopted March 3, 2008, repealed section 110.300 "term of office" in its entirety. Former section derived from ord. no. 1790 §2, 10-2-95; ord. no. 2273 §1, 1-2-01; ord. no. 2676 §1, 10-18-04; ord. no. 2700 §1, 7-13-05; ord. no. 2733 §1, 5-1-06; ord. no. 2750 §4, 6-30-06. At the editor's discretion, this section has been reserved for the city's future use.
[Ord. No. 1790 §3, 10-2-1995; Ord. No. 2750 §3, 6-30-2006; Ord. No. 2921 §1, 6-1-2009]
A. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall have the following duties:
1. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall attend all meetings of the Board of Aldermen.
2. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall keep a journal of the proceedings of the Board of Aldermen.
3. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall safely and properly keep all the records and papers belonging to the City which may be entrusted to his/her care.
4. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall be the general accountant of the City.
5. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall administer official oaths and oaths to persons certifying to demands or claims against the City.
6. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall have custody of the books, records, papers and documents belonging to the City.
7. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall direct or prepare all certificates of election or appointment of the City Officers, and deliver the same to the persons elected or appointed.
8. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall see that all ordinances appropriating money out of the Treasury are endorsed by the Treasurer before passage and shall affix thereto the Seal of the City and keep a record thereof showing the number, date and amount thereof, the name of the person to whom, and on what account issued, and when redeemed.
9. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall record the certificates, oaths and bonds of all the City Officers.
10. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall keep an index of the records of proceedings of the Board of Aldermen.
11. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall direct or prepare all blank licenses for all purposes for which licenses are required to be issued, and when required shall cause the same to be issued, signing the Clerk's name and affixing the Seal of the City thereto, and shall keep an account with the Collector for such licenses and amount of the license tax thereon.
12. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager is the custodian of the records. As such custodian shall respond to all requests for access to or copies of a public record within the time period provided by Missouri Statute except in those circumstances authorized by Missouri Statute. And that the fees charged shall be in accordance with Missouri Statute. That such custodian shall cause a full public records policy to be posted at his/her office in public view. Said policy is as follows:
[Ord. No. 3202 § 2, 3-7-2016]
City Of Pleasant Valley, Missouri, Records Policy
Section 610.028(2), RSMo., provides that each public body shall adopt a written records policy in compliance with Missouri's Sunshine Law; as such, the official position of the City as to keeping and accessing City records shall be as follows:
1.
Meetings, records, votes, actions and deliberations of this body shall be conducted in compliance with applicable State Statutes.
2.
All information shall be released and made available in compliance with applicable State Statutes.
3.
The designated custodian of records shall be the City Clerk and all official records requests must submitted to that person.
4.
All records which may be closed by Missouri State Statutes or Federal law shall be closed pursuant to this policy.
5.
The bulletin board located at City Hall is hereby designated as the official notification place for the Board of Aldermen, as well as all boards, commissions, and committees.
6.
No elected official shall have more access than the public at large to closed records of the City except as to:
a.
Minutes of executive sessions involving the bodies for which they currently hold an official seat that was also held at the time the minutes were recorded.
b.
Records which the appropriate public body has voted to make accessible to the official.
c.
Records otherwise required by law to be accessible to the official.
13. 
The City Clerk/TIF Manager shall have additional duties associated with setting up and managing accounting aspects of TIF.
[Ord. No. 1790 §4, 10-2-1995; Ord. No. 2750 §2, 6-30-2006]
The Board of Aldermen shall set the salary of the City Clerk/TIF Manager and such amount shall be fixed by ordinance as a certain amount per month.
[Ord. No. 1790 §5, 10-2-1995; Ord. No. 2750 §2, 6-30-2006]
A. 
Upon temporary disability or inability of the City Clerk/TIF Manager to perform his/her duties as set forth in the ordinance, other ordinances or Statutes due to illness, absence from the City or other cause, the Board of Aldermen shall appoint a Temporary City Clerk/TIF Manager who shall have the same powers and duties as the City Clerk/TIF Manager and shall hold such position as City Clerk/TIF Manager until the disability or inability of the City Clerk/TIF Manager is removed.
B. 
The Temporary Clerk shall receive as compensation such salary as the Board of Aldermen shall provide at the time of the appointment.