Cross References: City council to appoint certain officers, § 115.010; City Clerk to be Clerk of the City Council, § 115.080 et seq.; elections, Ch. 105; personnel, Ch. 140.
[R.O. 1993 § 110.010; Ord. No. 86-1916A § 1A, 11-10-1986; CC 1988 § 2-16]
No person shall be Council member unless he or she is at least twenty-one (21) years of age prior to taking office, a citizen of the United States, and an inhabitant of the City for one (1) year next preceding his or her election, and a resident of the ward from which he or she is elected six (6) months next preceding his or her election. Whenever there is a tie in the election of a Council member, the matter shall be determined by the Council.
[R.O. 1993 § 110.015]
The Council shall consist of five (5) members, and all persons now eligible for the position of Council member under the laws governing Cities of the Third Class shall be eligible to serve as Council members under §§ 78.430 to 78.630, RSMo. The term of Council members shall be three (3) years, except that of the first Council elected after the adoption of §§ 78.430 to 78.630, RSMo., one (1) member shall serve for one (1) year, two (2) for two (2) years, and two (2) for three (3) years. Those Council members receiving the highest number of votes at the first municipal election shall serve for the three-year term, those receiving the next highest shall serve for the two-year term, and the other for the one-year term. Should a vacancy occur in the office of Council member by death, resignation or otherwise, the Council shall select a successor who shall serve until the next regular election. All Council members shall be elected at large. They shall qualify and their terms of office shall begin on the first Monday after their election. The terms of office of the Mayor and Council members in the City, in office at the beginning of the terms of office of the Council first elected under the provisions of §§ 78.430 to 78.630, RSMo., including all boards and commissions, shall cease and determine and the terms of office of all other City Officers, whether elective or appointive, in force in such City except as herein provided shall cease and determine as soon as the Council shall by resolution declare, except that the Council may continue the Board of Public Works, and the Library, Hospital and Park Boards for such time or times after organizing under §§ 78.430 to 78.630, RSMo., as the interests of the City in its judgment may require.
[R.O. 1993 § 110.020]
A. 
The City Council shall at the time of organizing elect one (1) of its members as Mayor and another as Chairman pro tem for a term of one (1) year. In case the members of the City Council, within five (5) days after the time herein fixed for their organization meeting, are unable to agree upon a Mayor or a Chairman pro tem, of such Council, then a Mayor or Chairman pro tem, or both, as the occasion may require, shall be selected from all the members of such Council by lot and a record thereof shall be made upon the journal of the Council.
B. 
The Mayor shall preside at all meetings of the Council and perform such other duties consistent with his or her office as may be imposed by it; and he or she shall have a voice and vote in its proceedings, but no veto.
C. 
The Mayor shall be recognized as the official head of the City by the courts for the purpose of serving civil process, by the Governor for the purpose of military law, and for all ceremonial purposes. The powers and duties of the Mayor shall be such as are conferred upon him or her by §§ 78.430 to 78.630, RSMo., and no others.
D. 
If the Mayor be temporarily absent from the City, or become temporarily disabled from any cause, his or her duties shall be performed during such absence or disability by the Chairman pro tem. In the absence of both the Mayor and Chairman pro tem the other members of the City Council shall select one (1) of their number to perform the duties of Mayor.
[R.O. 1993 § 110.030]
A. 
Except as herein otherwise provided the Council of any City organizing under §§ 78.430 to 78.630, RSMo., shall have all of the powers now or hereafter given to the Council or to the Mayor and Council jointly, under the law by which such City adopting said Sections was governed under its former organization; and shall have such power over and control of the administration of the City Government as is provided in said Sections.
B. 
It shall be the duty of the Council to pass all ordinances and other measures conducive to the welfare of the City and to the proper carrying out of the provisions of §§ 78.430 to 78.630, RSMo. It shall appoint a suitable person not a member of the Council to be the administrative head of the City Government whose official title shall be "City Manager." The Council shall also provide for all offices and positions in addition to those herein specified, which may become necessary for the proper carrying on of the work of the City, and shall fix the salary and compensation of all officers and employees of the City not herein provided for. All officers of the City shall be paid in equal monthly installments for their services and all employees of the City shall be paid monthly or at such shorter periods as the Council shall determine. The creation of all offices and salaries attached thereto, which may be provided for by the Council under §§ 78.430 to 78.630, RSMo., shall be by ordinance, and they shall all be for an indefinite term. The Council shall also provide office rooms at the City Hall or at some other convenient and suitable place in the City for the transaction of the business of the City and for the convenience of its officers.
[R.O. 1993 § 110.035; Ord. No. 2004-2602 § 1, 6-22-2004; Ord. No. 2010-2891 § 1, 12-28-2010]
Any person elected to serve as a Council member/woman will serve with no annual compensation effective with the April 2011 election and each seat elected to office thereafter.
[R.O. 1993 § 110.040]
Three (3) members of the Council shall constitute a quorum to do business; but no action thereof shall be valid unless at least three (3) shall vote in favor of such action. Upon every vote the "yeas" and "nays" shall be called and recorded and every motion, resolution, and ordinance shall be reduced to writing before the vote is taken thereon. Every resolution or ordinance passed by the Council must be signed by the Mayor or in his or her absence by the Chairman pro tem, or by two (2) members of the Council before the same shall be enforced.
[R.O. 1993 § 110.050]
A. 
No initial ordinance granting any franchise, lease, right or privilege in or under the streets, public thoroughfares or public places of the City shall go into effect or become operative or vest any right in the grantee or grantees, unless such grant shall first be approved by a majority of the voters voting at a municipal election at which the proposed grant is properly submitted. Any renewal or extension thereof shall be subject to voter approval of the majority of the voters voting on the question, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 88.251, RSMo.
B. 
No ordinance or amendment or modification thereof granting any non-exclusive franchise, lease, right or privilege for not to exceed twenty (20) years in or under the streets, public thoroughfares or public places of the City shall go into effect or become operative or vest any right in the grantee or grantees, except upon prior compliance with the following conditions:
1. 
Before final passage of the ordinance, or amendment or modification of ordinance, by the Council, the City Clerk shall prepare a notice of a public hearing thereupon and cause it, along with a true copy of the ordinance, including the full text of the franchise under consideration, to be published once a week for four (4) consecutive weeks in a daily newspaper or for four (4) consecutive weeks in a weekly newspaper if no daily newspaper is published in the City, the first publication to be at least thirty (30) days before, and the last publication within ten (10) days of, the date fixed by the City Council for the public hearing;
2. 
The notice shall give the date, time and place of the public hearing, and shall contain a statement of the substance and effect of the proposed ordinance, and a further statement that the ordinance, or amendment or modification of ordinance, as introduced, or a true copy thereof, may be inspected and copied at the office of the City Clerk during regular business hours;
3. 
The public hearing shall be at a regular, adjourned or called meeting of the City Council at which all interested persons will be heard in person or by attorney;
4. 
The City Council may at any time, before or after the public hearing, submit the proposed franchise, lease, right or privilege to an election by the voters for their approval;
5. 
The provisions of this Subsection shall not apply in the granting of any franchise, lease, right or privilege to any utility regulated by the Public Service Commission of the State of Missouri.
C. 
Any ordinance, however, may be amended or modified by the Council as to streets, alleys, or public places already occupied and used by any person, persons or corporation by and under a franchise then in existence and only as to such streets, alleys or public places used and occupied by such person, persons or corporation under a franchise then in existence, when such modifications or amendment is necessary to enable such person or corporation to enlarge, better or improve its facilities, equipment, material or structure above, upon or beneath such streets, alleys, public thoroughfares or public places then used and occupied by such person or corporation by and under a franchise then in existence, for the purpose of removing or overcoming hindrances to public service. The City Council shall have the right to grant to any railroad company the right to construct switches or spur tracks to industrial plants or warehouses.
[R.O. 1993 § 110.130; Ord. No. 96-2247 § 110.130, 9-24-1996; Ord. No. 99-2385 § 1, 5-26-1999; Ord. No. 99-2409-B §§ 1 — 2, 11-23-1999; Ord. No. 2014-2983 § 1, 2-24-2014]
A. 
It shall be the duty of the Mayor to recommend to the Council persons to fill any vacancy or member position on any City board or commission. All recommendations of the Mayor to fill a vacancy on a City board or commission shall be subject to approval of a majority of the Council. The Mayor shall promptly appoint those persons approved by the Council to serve on the appropriate board or commission.
B. 
When a new board or commission is created, the City Clerk shall cause a notice to be placed in a local newspaper and on the public notice board at City Hall. The notice shall show the name and purpose of the new board or commission and the last date any person seeking appointment to the new board or commission may submit his or her name for consideration. At the next regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council following the last date any person seeking appointment may submit his or her name for consideration, the Council shall review the names of all applicants.
C. 
When a vacancy shall exist on a standing board or commission, the Chairperson of that board shall immediately notify the City Clerk and Mayor of the vacancy, and the City Clerk shall cause a notice of such vacancy and solicitation for applicants to fill the vacancy to be placed in a local newspaper and on the public notice board at City Hall. The notice prepared by the City Clerk shall describe the vacancy and the position to be filled and shall state the last date upon which any person seeking appointment to such vacancy shall submit his or her name for consideration to the City Clerk. The current members of the board or commission may interview the applicants, and, within thirty (30) days of the application deadline, the Chairman of the board or commission shall submit the names of all applicants to the Mayor along with any recommendations which the existing board or commission may have made as to the individuals which the existing board or commission has interviewed. At the next regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council, the Council shall review the names of all applicants.
D. 
After review of all the applicants has occurred, the Mayor shall then, within sixty (60) days, either appoint an individual from the list of applicants to fill the vacancy or shall appoint some other qualified person.
E. 
No person shall be appointed to serve as a member of more than two (2) boards or commissions of the City at the same time. No person shall be appointed to serve on the Planning and Zoning, Board of Zoning Adjustment and/or the Building Board of Appeals at the same time.
[R.O. 1993 § 110.140; Ord. No. 99-2392 §§ 1 — 2, 5-25-1999]
It shall constitute good cause, as such term is set forth in the State Statutes, to remove any individual from a board or commission if such individual has missed three (3) or more consecutive meetings of such board or commission.
[R.O. 1993 § 110.060; Code 1972 § 2-7; CC 1988 § 2-21; Ord. No. 92-2080 § 1, 7-13-1992; Ord. No. 94-2158, 8-22-1994; Ord. No. 2001-2467 § I, 7-24-2001; Ord. No. 2003-2566 § 1, 10-28-2003; Ord. No. 2014-2980 § 1, 1-8-2014; Ord. No. 2015-3023 § 1, 1-9-2015; Ord. No. 2020-3186, 2-11-2020]
A. 
The Council shall hold its regularly scheduled meetings in the building known as the City Hall.
B. 
The regular meetings of the Council shall be held on the second (2nd) and fourth (4th) Tuesday of each month at 6:00 P.M., and additional meetings may be held at other times as set by the Council.
C. 
The first meeting in April that follows the general election day for Council members shall be the first (1st) day of terms of office for Mayor and Council members pursuant to Section 78.460, RSMo.
[R.O. 1993 § 110.070; Code 1972 § 2-8; Ord. No. 86-1905 § 2, 4-28-1986; CC 1988 § 2-22; Ord. No. 2003-2566 § 1, 10-28-2003]
A. 
The Mayor or any two (2) Council members may call a special meeting of the City Council at any time and place by causing a notice to be served upon the members of the Council or by leaving a copy of the notice at the residence of the Council members or by all members of the Council and the Mayor meeting by agreement at the City Hall without notice.
B. 
The Mayor or Council members, in calling a special meeting, shall fix the time and place of the meeting and shall state in the call or have spread upon the journal the object of the meeting. No business shall be transacted at a special or called meeting other than that for which the meeting was called, unless the Mayor and all Council members shall be present at the meeting. In such case, any and all business may be transacted that might be transacted at any regular meeting.
[R.O. 1993 § 110.090; Code 1972 § 2-11; CC 1988 § 2-25]
A. 
The following rules and order of business for the governing of the City Council in its deliberations are hereby adopted:
1. 
A quorum being present, the Mayor shall call the Council to order, cause the roll to be called and the minutes of the last session to be read or presented as printed, and the mistakes, if any, shall be corrected. The Mayor shall preserve order and decorum, and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Council. He or she shall appoint all committees, subject to the concurrence therein of the Council.
2. 
When a question is put by the chair, each member present shall vote, unless the Council shall for special reasons excuse him or her but if directly or indirectly financially interested he or she shall not vote or participate in any matter in which he or she is financially interested as defined in § 105.450, RSMo. Upon every vote the "yeas" and "nays" shall be recorded, and every motion, resolution or ordinance shall be reduced to writing and read before the vote is taken thereon.
3. 
A motion to adjourn and a motion to fix the time at which the Council shall adjourn shall always be in order and shall be decided without debate.
4. 
When a Council member or other person is about to speak or address the Council, he or she shall address the chair as "Mr. Mayor" but shall not proceed with his or her remarks until recognized. He or she shall confine himself to the question before the Council and shall avoid all personalities.
5. 
Official reports of Council members and of the different officers of the City shall be presented in writing and signed by the officers presenting the same.
6. 
The Mayor can temporarily excuse any member of the Council, but no Council member shall be permitted to leave the meeting of the Council without the consent of a majority of the members present.
7. 
When any question has been voted upon, it shall be in order for any Council member to move a reconsideration thereof at the same or the next succeeding meeting, but no question or vote shall be reconsidered a second time.
8. 
At each regular meeting of the Council the following shall be the order of business:
a. 
Calling the roll;
b. 
Approval of minutes as read or printed;
c. 
Approval of bills;
d. 
Other business.
9. 
The Mayor shall follow the prepared agenda of the meeting unless otherwise permitted by a majority of the Council. Such agenda shall contain all unfinished new business to come before the Council.
B. 
These rules, or any of them, may be temporarily suspended or amended by a vote of two-thirds (2/3) of all members elected.