[Adopted as Title 1, Ch. 6, of the 1978 Code]
The Board of Trustees, consisting of six members, shall be elected
to office for a four-year term, according to the method provided by
statute. This Board shall be the legislative department of the Village
government and shall perform such duties and have such powers as may
be delegated by statute to it.
[Amended 1-16-1963 by Ord. No. 245]
The members of the Board of Trustees shall take the oath of
office prescribed by statute.
A.
Regular meetings.
[Amended 7-19-1984 by Ord. No. 419]
(1)
The Village Board shall hold its regular meetings in the Village
Hall on the first and third Mondays each month at 5:30 p.m., provided
that if any meeting shall fall upon a holiday, then such meeting shall
be held upon the Tuesday following. Notice of such regular meetings
shall not be required.
[Amended 8-21-2017 by Ord. No. 720; 12-20-2021 by Ord. No. 771]
(2)
The meeting place of the said Board shall be at the Village Hall,
unless otherwise ordered by the Board.
B.
Special meetings. Special meetings may be called by the President
of the Village or any three Trustees upon at least 24 hours' notice
to all members and the President, provided that if all of the Trustees
are present at a special meeting, no notice of such meeting shall
be necessary and such notice shall be deemed waived; provided, further,
that the requirements of a notice shall not apply where the President
and all of the members of the Board of Trustees sign an instrument
which specifically waives notice of a particular special meeting which
has been duly called.
A.
The Village President shall be the presiding officer of all regular
and special meetings of the Board of Trustees and at all times when
the Board meets as a committee of the whole.
B.
The Village President shall not vote on any ordinance, resolution
or motion except: 1) where the vote of the Trustees has resulted in
a tie, or 2) where 1/2 of the Trustees have voted in favor of an ordinance,
resolution or motion even though there is no tie vote or 3) where
state law or an ordinance, resolution or motion requires the vote
of greater than a majority of the corporate authorities. In all instances
specified, the Village President shall vote. Nothing in this section
shall deprive a President Pro Tem from voting in his capacity as Trustee,
but he shall not be entitled to another vote in his capacity as President
Pro Tem.
[Amended 6-7-2021 by Ord.
No. 764]
A.
Approval, veto. All resolutions and motions: 1) which create any
liability against the Village, or 2) which provide for the expenditure
or appropriation of its money, or 3) to sell any Village property,
and all ordinances passed by the Village Board, shall be deposited
with the Village Administrative Clerk. If the Village President approves
of them, he shall sign them. Those of which he disapproves, he shall
return to the Village Board, with his written objections, at the next
regular meeting of the Village Board occurring not less than five
days after their passage. The Village President may disapprove of
any one or more sums appropriated in any ordinance, resolution or
motion making an appropriation and, if so, the remainder shall be
effective. However, the Village President may disapprove entirely
of an ordinance, resolution, or motion making an appropriation. If
the Village President fails to return any ordinance or any specified
resolution with his written objections within the designated time,
it shall become effective despite the absence of his signature.
B.
Reconsideration, passing over veto. Every resolution and motion specified
in the preceding subsection, and every ordinance, which is returned
to the Board of Trustees by the Village President shall be reconsidered
by the Board of Trustees. If, after such reconsideration, 2/3 of all
the Trustees elected to the Village Board shall agree to pass an ordinance,
resolution, or motion, notwithstanding the President's refusal to
approve it, then it shall be effective. The vote on the question of
passage over the President's veto shall be by yeas and nays and shall
be recorded in the journal.
A majority of the Trustees or three Trustees and the Village
President shall constitute a quorum to do business.
B.
Special committees shall be created from time to time as directed
by the Board of Trustees.
C.
All standing and special committees shall consist of three members
each, including the Chairman, unless the Board shall otherwise direct.
All committees shall be appointed by the President with the approval
of the Board of Trustees.
Whenever a surety bond to indemnify the Village is required
as a prerequisite to exercising the duties of any office or position,
or to the issuance of a license or permit or for the exercise of any
special privilege, the surety on such bond shall be a corporation
licensed and authorized to do business in this state as a surety company,
in the absence of specific ordinance provisions to the contrary. Whenever,
in its opinion, additional sureties or an additional surety may be
needed on any bond to indemnify the Village against any loss or liability
because of the insolvency of the existing surety or sureties or for
any other reason, the Board may order a new surety or sureties to
be secured on such bond. If such new surety or sureties are not procured
within 10 days from the time such order is transmitted to the principal
on the bond, or his assignee, the Board shall declare the bond to
be void, and thereupon such principal or assignee shall be deemed
to have surrendered the privilege or position as condition of which
the bond was required.
B.
Rescinded action. No vote or action of the Board of Trustees shall
be rescinded at any special meeting of the Board of Trustees unless
there be present at such special meeting the same members of the Board
of Trustees as were present at the meeting when such vote or action
was taken, as provided by statute.
C.
Resolutions. Any resolutions submitted to the Board of Trustees shall
be reduced to writing before being voted upon on request of any two
members of the Board.
D.
Addressing meetings. With the exception of provisions in Chapter 327, Article I, Citizen Participation, no person other than the President or a member of the Board shall address that body at any regular or special meeting except upon consent of a majority of the members present.
[Amended 6-7-2021 by Ord.
No. 764]
E.
Suspension of rules. The rules of order, other than those prescribed
by statute, may be suspended at any time by the consent of a majority
of the members present at any meeting.
F.
Robert's Rules of Order. Robert's Rules of Order shall govern the
deliberations of the Board of Trustees except when in conflict with
any of the foregoing rules.
G.
Disturbing meetings. It shall be unlawful for any person to disturb any meeting of the Board of Trustees or of any committee thereof; any person violating the provisions of this subsection shall be subject to penalties as set forth in Chapter 100, Article III, of the Village Code.
[Amended 6-7-2021 by Ord.
No. 764]
[Amended 1-7-1985 by Ord.
No. 445]
The duly qualified and acting Trustees of the Village shall
receive as compensation for their services as such Trustees the sum
of $35 for each regular meeting attended by them and the sum of $10
for each special meeting attended by them, provided that said Trustees
shall receive compensation for not more than one meeting in each week,
effective May 1, 1985. Where one or more special meeting is held in
the same week as a regular meeting, said Trustees shall receive no
compensation for said special meeting or meetings, but shall receive
the sum of $35 for said regular meeting.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 1-6-11, Smoking areas,
of the 1978 Code, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 6-7-2021 by Ord. No. 764.
