(a) Time and place of regular council meetings. The city council shall regularly meet at city council chambers, 307 E. 4th Street, Big Spring, Texas on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. The city council may, by a two-thirds vote, change the time of a regular meeting to any other time and any other location.
(b) Mayor to preside at council meetings. The mayor shall preside over all meetings of the city council. At the hour of meeting, the mayor shall take the chair and call the council to order, direct the roll to be called and the minutes of the previous meeting to be read, corrected, if need be, and adopted. If the mayor is absent at the hour of meeting, the mayor pro tempore shall take the chair and preside over the meeting and the business shall be proceeded with as indicated above. If both are absent, then the council will elect a councilmember to chair the meeting.
(c) Parliamentary standard. The rules contained in the current edition of Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised, shall be the parliamentary standard for the conduct of all meetings of the City Council of Big Spring and shall govern the city council in all cases to which they are applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with the Big Spring City Charter and ordinances that the city council may adopt.
(1) As a special rule of order amending the city council's parliamentary standard, at city council meetings, the city attorney shall have the right to take part in the discussion, but not the right to vote.
(Prior Code, § 1-170; Ord. No. 012-2020, § 1, 4-28-2020; Ord. No. 021-2020, § 1, 8-14-2020)