(A) The Town Council shall meet at the Town Hall on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. If any such regular meeting day shall fall on a legal holiday, then the meeting shall be held the following day at 6:00 p.m. The meeting minutes, once approved by the town, from the public meeting shall be placed on the town website for the public’s availability.
(B) Special meetings of the Town Council may be called by the President or by a majority of the Council by notifying the Clerk-Treasurer of the date of the meeting. The Clerk-Treasurer shall notify each Council member of such meeting or leave a written notice thereof at each Council member’s residence.
(C) A majority of all the Council members shall constitute a quorum. If the presence of a quorum is questioned and it shall be ascertained that a quorum is not present, no debate or motion, but to adjourn, shall be in order until a quorum is present.
(D) The order of business of the Council is as follows (the order of business may be altered by a majority of the Council):
(1) Each meeting of the Council shall be opened by a roll call and note of members present and absent;
(2) Reading and correcting minutes of the preceding regular or special meeting.
(a) The reading of the minutes may be dispensed with by the presiding officer, or on request by a member by unanimous consent, and stand approved subject to objection.
(b) When objected to, it shall be determined by vote. Any motion to correct mistakes made in entries shall be deemed a question of privilege and proceed with until disposed of.
(3) Comments by the public;
(4) Old business;
(5) New business;
(6) Report from department heads;
(7) Comments from Council members;
(8) Report from Town Attorney and Clerk-Treasurer; and
(9) Close.
(E) (1) The President of the Town Council shall be elected by the members of the Town Council at the first meeting of the calendar year.
(2) The President shall take the chair at the hour designated to perform all the duties as set forth herein.
(F) The President or presiding officer shall preserve order and decorum, and shall decide all questions of order without debate, subject to an appeal to the Council. The presiding officer may submit to the Council any question of order for a decision.
(G) The President may speak to all matters coming before the Council, and shall have the right to vote on all ordinances and motions.
(H) The President shall appoint the members of all standing committees and any special committees as may be ordered by the Council.
(1) He or she shall determine the number of members to serve on a committee and may name the chairperson of it. Standing committees shall be appointed at the commencement of the term of the Council.
(2) Members of standing committees shall serve only during the term of the President appointing them.
(3) If any member of a committee refuses or is unable to perform the duties required of him or her, the President may replace that member.
(I) To pass an ordinance, a majority vote of all of the Council members is required.
(J) The Clerk-Treasurer shall call for members’ votes and every member shall be required to vote when a question is put, unless, for good cause, a Council member shall abstain.
(K) No Council member shall be permitted to vote after the results have been announced, but may for special reasons change or withdraw his or her vote by unanimous consent of the Council.
(Prior Code, § 2.1) (Ord. passed - -2010)