(A) All elected officers shall receive such compensation as the Council shall fix by ordinance. The emoluments of appointive and elective officers of the city shall be neither increased nor decreased during the term for which elected or appointed, except by merger of offices or when there are other officers elected or appointed to the Council and the terms of one or more members commence and end at different times; the compensation of all members of such Council may be increased or diminished at the beginning of the full term of any member thereof. The officers salaries shall be as follows:
(1) Mayor: $4,000 per year; and
(2) Council member: $3,000 per year.
(B) The above sums shall be payable quarterly in the normal course of business. Further, the Mayor and each Council member shall be paid an additional $100 for each special or emergency City Council meeting.
(C) No person who shall have resigned or vacated any office shall be eligible to the same during the time for which he or she was elected or appointed, if during the same time the emoluments thereof have been increased. In addition to the salaries herein provided, the various officers shall be entitled to mileage and expenses, if and when claims therefor are filed, audited and allowed. The Mayor and Council may, by resolution, authorize clerical assistance in one of more offices when the same may be needed, and claims therefore out of the proper funds may be presented, allowed, audited and paid. All fees earned by an officer of the city in the performance of his or her duties as such shall be considered the property of the city, and shall be promptly paid over to the City Treasurer and by him or her credited to the appropriate fund.
(Ord. 979, passed 7-14-2014)