(A) The Mayor shall preside at meetings of the Council.
(1) Whenever there is a quorum of the City Council at any regularly scheduled meeting or at any specially called meeting which has been legally called and for which all Councilmembers and the Mayor have been duly notified, should the Mayor be absent from the meeting, Council shall from among its members select one member to preside at the meeting in place of the Mayor as follows:
(a) The Clerk/Treasurer shall select the name of a Councilmember. That Councilmember shall nominate any member of the Council present as Presiding Officer Pro Tem.
(b) Upon the nomination, all Councilmembers present shall vote upon acceptance or rejection of the nomination, with a simple majority voting in favor constituting acceptance.
(c) If the initial nomination is rejected, the Clerk/Treasurer shall select the name of another Councilmember at random, and the above process will begin anew.
(2) The Presiding Officer so selected shall call the official meeting to order, and instruct the Clerk/Treasurer to record the fact that the Mayor is absent and which Councilmember was duly selected under this section to preside.
(3) The meeting shall then proceed as usual.
(Ord. 80-20, passed 12-17-80)
(B) The Mayor may participate in Council proceedings, but shall not have a vote, except that he may cast the deciding vote in case of a tie.
(KRS 83A.130 (5))
Statutory reference:
Authority to designate Presiding Officer in absence of Mayor, see KRS 83A.130(5)
Cross-reference:
Council's responsibility to select one of its own members to preside when there is a vacancy in the office of Mayor, see § 31.21