[Amended 11-2-1976; 11-3-1998; 11-6-2018]
A. The Council
shall hold a regular meeting at least twice a month in the City at
a time and place that the Council designates. The Council may, however,
by a majority vote of the entire Council, cancel up to three regular
meetings during any calendar year. No more than two of the regular
meetings canceled each year may be consecutive. The Council adopt
rules for the government of its members and proceedings. The Mayor
upon his or her own motion may, or at the request of three members
of the Council shall, by giving notice thereof to all members of the
Council, call a special meeting of the Council, with advance public
notice of the meeting as prescribed by ordinance. No prior notice
of a special meeting need be given to a Council member who has consented
to the meeting or who attends the meeting without objection to the
time or manner of notice. An emergency meeting of the Council may
be held at any time by common consent of all the available members
of the Council.
B. The deliberations
and proceedings of the Council, and the commissions, committees and
boards of the City shall be public except as state law allows otherwise.
All meetings of the City Council and Council subcommittees shall be
electronically recorded. Meetings of city boards, commissions, and
committees shall be electronically recorded during the conduct of
quasi-judicial public hearings or as the Council may otherwise direct.
[Amended 11-2-1976, 11-3-1998]
The Council shall cause a journal of its proceedings to be kept.
The vote upon any question may be taken by voice or roll call vote.
The vote shall be taken by roll call at the direction of the Mayor
or the request of any councilor. The minutes shall reflect the vote
of each councilor by name.
[Amended 11-2-1976]
The Mayor shall preside over the Council's deliberations. The
Mayor shall have a vote as any other Council member. The Mayor shall
preserve order, enforce the rules of the Council and determine the
order of business under the rules of the Council.
At its first meeting each year the Council shall elect a President
from among the Councilors. In the Mayor's absence from a Council meeting,
the President shall perform the Mayor's functions at the meeting.
If both the Mayor and the president of the Council are absent from
a Council meeting, the members present shall select one of their number
to perform the Mayor's functions at the meeting. Whenever the Mayor
is unable to function as such, the President shall act as Mayor.