[R.O. 2012 §110.010; CC 1975 §2-13; Ord. No. 282 §2]
The Governing Body of the City shall be a City Council consisting of a Mayor and eight (8) Council members, to be elected as provided for in Chapter 105 of this Code, and each member of the Council shall serve for a term of two (2) years and until his/her successor is elected and qualified. The Mayor shall be elected for a term of four (4) years.
[R.O. 2012 §110.020]
The Mayor shall be President of the Council and shall preside over same, but shall not vote except in case of a tie in said Council, when he/she shall cast the deciding vote; but provided, however, that he/she shall have no such power to vote in cases when he/she is an interested party. He/she shall have the superintending control of all the officers and affairs of the City, and shall take care that the ordinances of the City and the State laws relating to such City are complied with.
[R.O. 2012 §110.030]
The Mayor and Council shall have the care, management and control of the City and its finances, and shall have power to enact and ordain any and all ordinances not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State, and such as they shall deem expedient for the good government of the City, the preservation of peace and good order, the benefit of trade and commerce, and the health of the inhabitants thereof, and such other ordinances, rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary to carry such powers into effect, and to alter, modify or repeal the same.
[R.O. 2012 §110.040; CC 1975 §2-15; Ord. No. 3 §§1 — 2; Ord. No. 4 §1; Ord. No. 291 §1; Ord. No. 307 §§1 — 2; Ord. No. 424 §1; Ord. No. 5 §1, 7-5-1977; Ord. No. 29 §1, 12-5-1977; Ord. No. 442 §1, 10-15-1999; Ord. No. 753, 12-7-2021; Ord. No. 764, 9-6-2022; Ord. No. 790, 9-19-2023; Ord. No. 826, 2-11-2025]
A. 
Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Council of the City of Normandy shall be held on the second Tuesday of each month at the hour of 6:30 P.M. at the Normandy City Hall.
B. 
Special Meetings. Special meetings may be convened by the Mayor or three (3) members of the City Council at any time on notice to the City Council at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance of the meeting date unless for good cause such notice is impossible or impractical, in which case as much notice as is reasonably possible shall be given.
C. 
Members Required To Attend — Enforcement. Each member of the Council shall be required to attend all regular and special meetings of the Council. Any member of the Council declared absent from a regular meeting held on the second Tuesday of the month shall forfeit his or her pay for the month(s) in which he or she was declared absent, except that each member of the Council shall be entitled to two (2) absences per calendar year. A Council member shall be deemed to have attended a meeting only if the member arrives no later than fifteen (15) minutes the start of the regular meeting, and remains present until the meeting, including any closed meeting immediately following the regular meeting, is adjourned. This penalty shall not apply to special meetings, workshops, or if the monthly meeting has been cancelled or rescheduled.
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Cross Reference — As to open meetings and records, Ch. 120; As to required attendance at meetings, Section 110.100.
At the first (1st) regular meeting of the City Council after the election in each year, which meeting shall occur at the time fixed by ordinance, but shall not be later than the fourth (4th) Tuesday in April, the Council shall elect one of its members President Pro Tem, who shall hold his/her office for the term of one (1) year, and who, in the absence of the Mayor, shall preside at the meetings of the Council; provided, that in the absence of the Mayor and President Pro Tem the Council may select one of its members present to preside at such meetings, who shall be styled "acting president pro tem."
[R.O. 2012 §110.060; CC 1975 §2-17; Ord. No. 5 §2, 7-5-1977; Ord. No. 289 §2, 8-9-1988; Ord. No. 482 §1, 2-6-2001; Ord. No. 800, 1-9-2024; Ord. No. 826, 2-11-2025]
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Call To Order, Roll Call. At the hour appointed, the Mayor, or in his/her absence the President Pro Tempore of the Council, shall call the meeting to order. Upon the meeting be called to order the City Clerk shall call the role of members and announce whether a quorum is present. Five (5) of the eight (8) members of the City Council shall constitute a quorum. If a quorum is not present, a smaller number may lawfully adjourn the meeting from day to day, until a quorum is present.
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In the absence of the Mayor or the President Pro Tempore of the Council, the City Clerk shall call the Council to order, whereupon a temporary chairperson shall be elected by majority vote of the members of the Council present. Upon the arrival of the Mayor or the President Tempore of the Council, the temporary chairperson shall immediately relinquish the chair upon the conclusion of the business immediately before the Council.
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Order Of Business. The City Council, by majority vote of the members present, may change the order of business or revise the agenda. The agenda shall be established by the Mayor; provided, however, that any item requested by two (2) or more members of the City Council shall be included on the agenda. Unless amended upon the motion of a Council member the order of business at all regular City Council meetings shall be as follows:
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Roll Call and Pledge of Allegiance.
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Approval of the Agenda.
3. 
Approval of Minutes and Consent Agenda.
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Presentation of Petitioners, Remonstrations, Complaints, and Request.
5. 
Report of Officers.
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Old Business.
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New Business.
8. 
Citizen Comments.
9. 
Closed Session.
10. 
Adjournment.
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Consent Agenda. At the time of establishing the agenda, the Mayor may include one (1) or more of the following items of business on the consent agenda:
1. 
Minutes.
2. 
Resolutions and proclamations.
3. 
Written reports of officers and committees.
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At the request of the Mayor or any one (1) or more members of the City Council, an item of business shall be removed from the consent agenda and considered on the regular agenda. The City Council, by a majority vote of the members present, may approve and adopt the consent agenda by a single motion. Upon approval of the consent agenda, each item thereon shall be deemed passed, approved, and adopted, as if considered individually.
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Style Of Minutes, Procedure To Approve. Minutes for all Council meetings shall be prepared by the City Clerk in a summary format recording, including, but not limited to, the date, time, location, members present and absent, the record of all votes taken, and citation to Section 610.021, RSMo., provisions to close a meeting. Details of Council discussions shall not be included in the minutes except at the discretion of the City Clerk to provide context for a vote of the Council, or where the Council, by majority vote of those present, directs the City Clerk to include such discussion in the minutes. Unless a reading of the minutes of a City Council meeting is requested by a member of the Council, such minutes may be approved without reading if the City Clerk has previously furnished each member with a synopsis thereof.
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Robert's Rules of Order shall govern the proceedings of the City Council, except when otherwise provided by ordinance or resolution, and any questions arising thereunder shall be decided by the Presiding Officer subject to the appeal to the City Council by any member. Any parliamentary rule may be suspended by unanimous consent of the members of the City Council present at any meeting.
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In addition to the rules of debate contained in Robert's Rules of Order, the following rules of debate shall apply:
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Obtaining The Floor. Every member desiring to speak at a meeting of the City Council shall address the chair and, upon recognition by the Presiding Officer, shall confine himself/herself to the question under debate, avoiding all personalities and indecorous language.
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Interruptions. A member of the City Council, once recognized, shall not be interrupted when speaking unless it is to call the member to order or as otherwise provided in this Section. If a member while speaking is called to order, the member shall cease speaking until the question of order is determined and, if in order, the member shall be permitted to proceed.
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Addressing The Council. During a regular meeting of the City Council, a person may address the Council in one of three (3) ways: (1) during the open forum; (2) in a public hearing; or (3) as an applicant or designated presenter for a particular business matter before the Council, in the following manner:
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Open Forum. Any person may address the Council during the open forum portion of a regular meeting concerning any matter of the City's business or any matter over which the Council has control. Each person desiring to address the Council during open forum must complete and submit to the City Clerk a speaker card containing the speaker's name, residential address, and the subject upon which the speaker desires to speak, in advance of the start of the meeting. Each person is limited to three (3) minutes to address the Council during open forum.
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Public Hearings. Any person may address the Council during a scheduled public hearing, provided such statements are limited to the subject of the public hearing. Each person desiring to address the Council during a public hearing shall state his or her name and residential address. Other than the applicant, each person speaking at a public hearing must limit his or her comments to no more than five (5) minutes. Where it is determined that a public hearing may be lengthy, the Council may amend the agenda to move the public hearing and any related business matters to the end of the agenda.
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Business Matters Before The Council. Only an applicant or designated presenter for a particular resolution, ordinance, or other business matter may address the Council while the Council is considering such business matter. After a motion is made by a member of the Council, no person shall address the Council without first securing the permission of the Council so to do.
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Limitations.
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An individual may only speak on a specific topic once during a meeting. Thus, if an individual addresses the Council on a specific topic during the open forum portion of the meeting, he or she may not address the Council a second time on such topic during any other portion of the meeting, including a scheduled public hearing. However, an applicant may present information during a public hearing and respond to questions from the Council during the Council's consideration of the subject resolution, ordinance, or other business matter.
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All remarks shall be addressed to the Council as a body and not to any member thereof. No person, other than the Council and the person having the floor, shall be permitted to enter into any discussion, either directly or through a member of the Council, without the permission of the officer presiding. No question shall be asked of a Council member except through the officer presiding.
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Decorum. While the City Council is in session, the members must preserve order and decorum, and a member shall neither, by conversation or otherwise, delay or interrupt the proceeding or the peace of the Council nor disturb any member while speaking or refuse to obey the orders of the Council or its officer presiding, except as otherwise provided in this Section. Any person or citizen making threatening remarks, disrupting a meeting, engaging in speech not protected by the First Amendment, or engaging in criminal conduct while addressing the City Council shall be subject to removal from the meeting as directed by the Mayor or other Presiding Officer and may be barred from further addressing the Council if a majority of the Council so votes, with the opportunity to be unbarred after ninety (90) days if a majority of the Council so votes.
I. 
Report Of Council Members — Time Limitations. No report given by any Council member during the Report of Officers agenda item shall exceed two (2) minutes in duration.
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The Chief of Police, or his/her designee, shall be Sergeant-At-Arms of the City Council and shall attend each regular and adjourned meeting thereof and, when so directed in the call for any special meeting and given timely notice thereof by the City Administrator, he/she shall attend such special meetings. The Sergeant-At-Arms shall maintain order at meetings of the Council and execute orders of the Council given him/her by the Presiding Officer.
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Style Of Ordinances — Procedure To Enact. The style of the ordinances of the City shall be: "Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Normandy, as follows:" No ordinance shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall become an ordinance unless on its final passage a majority of the members elected to the Council shall vote therefor, and the "ayes" and "nays" shall be entered on the journal. Every proposed ordinance shall be introduced to the Council in writing and shall be read by title or in full two (2) times prior to passage. If the proposed ordinance is read by title only, copies of the proposed ordinance shall be made available for public inspection prior to the time the bill is under consideration by the Council. No more than one (1) reading of a bill may occur at a single meeting of the Council unless a motion for two (2) readings of a bill at a single meeting receives the unanimous consent of the members of the Council voting on such motion. No bill shall become an ordinance until it shall have been signed by the officer presiding at the meeting of the Council at which it shall have been passed. When so signed, it shall be delivered to the Mayor for his/her approval and signature, or veto.
[R.O. 2012 §110.080; CC 1975 §2-23]
All ordinances which shall become laws shall, as soon as practicable after their adoption, be recorded in a book to be kept by the City Clerk and known as the "Record of Ordinances."
The Council shall publish a full and detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures and indebtedness of the City at the end of each fiscal year and six (6) months after the end of each fiscal year in a newspaper of general circulation in the City. Each such statement shall be for the six (6) month period preceding the date of the statement.
[Ord. No. 758, 6-7-2023; Ord. No. 764, 9-6-2022[1]]
A. 
Required Attendance. All Council board members shall be required to faithfully attend the regularly scheduled Council board meeting held on the second Tuesday of each month without failure or excuse. Any absence from the aforesaid meeting will subject the member(s) to penalties as set forth herein.
B. 
Penalties. If a member of the Council is declared absent from a regularly scheduled Council board meeting for any reason or excuse, said member shall forfeit his or her pay for the month(s) in which he or she was declared absent.
C. 
Exceptions. This Section shall not apply to special meetings, workshops, or if the monthly meeting has been cancelled.
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Editor's Note: Ord. No. 764 set the regular Council meeting to be on the second Tuesday, so the required attendance set out in this Section was also changed by implication.