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Council shall prepare an annual report. At minimum, the report shall communicate the Council’s strategic plan for the future of the Municipality, including the means to achieve the plan. The annual report shall also discuss: (1) accomplishments to date and resultant impacts, (2) multi-year and current year plans (and costs) for roads, recreational and utility facilities improvements and repairs, and (3) multi-year and current year plans (and costs) for organizational charges.
(Enacted 11-4-2003)
Emergency ordinances or resolutions necessary for the preservation of public peace, health and safety, shall go into immediate force and effect from and after their passage, subject to the provisions of Section 11 of this Charter. No ordinance or resolution granting, renewing, or extending a franchise or other special privilege, or regulating a rate to be charged for its services by any privately owned public utility, shall ever be passed as an emergency ordinance or resolution. Emergency ordinances or resolutions must, upon a “yes” or “no” vote, receive a two-thirds vote of all the members of Council.
(Amended 11-6-2018)
An ordinance or resolution passed as an emergency legislation, without a dissenting vote of Council, shall not be subject to disapproval of the Mayor, and it shall be his duty to forthwith authenticate it by his signature.
Every other ordinance or resolution of the Council shall be presented to the Mayor for his consideration before it goes into effect. The Mayor, if he approves it, shall sign it and file it with the Clerk forthwith. The Mayor may approve or disapprove the whole or any item of an ordinance appropriating money, but otherwise his approval or disapproval shall be addressed to the entire ordinance or resolution. Unless an ordinance or resolution is filed with the Clerk of Council with written notice of disapproval within ten (10) days after its passage by Council, it shall take effect as though the Mayor had approved it. When the Mayor has disapproved an ordinance or resolution or item of it, as herein provided, Council shall at its next regularly called meeting thereafter reconsider it, and if upon such reconsideration the ordinance, resolution or item is reapproved by the vote of five (5) or more of the members of Council, it shall take effect as provided therein, notwithstanding the disapproval of the Mayor; otherwise the disapproved measure or item thereof, as the case may be, shall not take effect or be in force.
Council shall have the power to establish all offices and positions not otherwise provided for by this Charter which are necessary from time to time for the efficient conduct of the affairs of the Municipality. Council shall by ordinance fix all salaries and rates of compensation; but the salary or rate of compensation of an elected or appointed official, officer or employee who has been elected or employed for a definitely fixed period of time, with the exception of the Mayor, shall not be increased or decreased during the term of office or appointment. All salaries and wage rates of employees of the Board of Municipal Utilities shall be approved by said Board before they are fixed by Council; and, unless and until changes in salaries and wages are so approved and modified by action of Council they shall remain as last fixed.
(Amended 11-7-2023)