[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of
the City of Lexington by Ord. No.
05-2 (Ch. 2, Arts. II and III of the 1970 Code).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 2-4-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-01]
The Council shall meet regularly on the first
and third Thursdays in every month at 7:00 p.m. in the Council chamber
and shall also meet at any other time to which it may adjourn or be
regularly scheduled. Meetings during June, July and August may be
limited to one meeting during the month.
It shall be the duty of the Mayor, unless otherwise
directed, to appoint any special committee that the Council may order.
If a quorum fails to attend within 30 minutes
after the time appointed for any meeting of Council, the Clerk of
the Council shall enter on the journal the names of those in attendance
and the adjournment for want of a quorum. If a quorum fails to attend
on the day of any regular meeting, the meeting shall stand adjourned
to the next day of meeting, or at such other time as those present
may designate. Any meeting may be canceled at a previous meeting if
it is known that a quorum will not be present.
The proceedings of any meeting shall be presented
at the next regular meeting, and after the errors appearing therein,
if any, are corrected, the same shall upon approval be signed by the
Mayor or the member presiding and the City Clerk.
No proposition other than a standing committee
recommendation shall be entertained by the Mayor until it has been
seconded. No proposition, after it has been seconded, shall be withdrawn
without the consent of the member proposing and the member seconding
the same.
The Mayor shall preserve order and decide all
questions of order. Any member may appeal to the Council from the
decision of the Mayor on any question of order, a majority vote of
those present being necessary to sustain the Mayor.
The previous question may be called at any time
by two members of the Council.
A motion to adjourn shall be always in order
and shall be decided without debate.
A question being once decided by the Council
shall not be again drawn into debate unless, on motion for reconsideration,
there shall be in favor of it a number of votes equal to a majority
of the members present when the question was previously decided.
When a question is under debate, no motion shall
be received unless it be one to amend, to commit, to postpone, for
the previous question, to lay on the table, or to adjourn.
No person who is not a member of the Council,
except for the City Manager or City Attorney, shall orally address
the Council unless leave to do so has been applied for and approved
by the Mayor or through a Council member and granted by the Council.
After the name of a member has been recorded
as present at any meeting of the Council, he or she shall not absent
himself or herself from such meeting previous to adjournment without
permission of the Council.
Subject to the provisions of the Charter of
the City, every member present when a question is put on an ordinance
or resolution shall, unless interested or excused from voting by the
Council, vote on one or the other side of such question.
At the request of any member present, the ayes
and noes on any question shall be recorded.
There shall be a recorded vote on every ordinance
having for its object the levying of taxes, appropriating of money
or elections. Levies, taxes and appropriations of money shall be by
a vote of at least 2/3 of the entire Council.
Every petition, communication or address to
the Council shall be in respectful language.
No rule of the Council shall be suspended without
the concurrence of 2/3 of the members present.
The proceedings of the Council, except as otherwise
provided in this article, shall be informal unless Robert's Rules
of Order are invoked by any one member of Council or the Mayor.
