The legislative powers of the Municipality, except as otherwise provided by this Charter and by the Constitution of the State of Ohio, shall be vested in the Council. The Council shall by ordinance make provision for:
(a) The time and place of regular meetings of the Council;
(b) The method of calling special meetings of the Council;
(c) The method of giving public notice of the enactment of its ordinances and resolutions and of any other of its acts or proceedings which it deems proper to publish. All ordinances and resolutions, unless otherwise directed by Council, shall be posted for not less than fifteen (15) days on the Village website and proof of the publication and posting shall be made by the operator of the Village website and shall be filed with the Clerk of Council. Unless otherwise determined by Council, the operator of the official public notice website shall be the Clerk of Council.
Council may by ordinance make provision for:
(d) The form and method or enactment of its ordinances and resolutions, provided that no ordinance or resolution shall contain more than one (1) subject which shall be clearly expressed in its title, and provided further that no ordinance or resolution of a general or permanent nature or granting a franchise, creating a right, involving the expenditure of money or the levying of a tax other than a resolution providing for an election on the question of issuing bonds or levying a tax, or for the purchase, lease, sale or transfer of property shall be passed unless it has been read in full or by caption on three (3) different days unless the requirement for such reading be dispensed with by the affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3rds) of the Council members and in the case of an ordinance being considered for certification to the Board of Elections to place an initiative on the ballot regarding any amendment to the Planning and Zoning Code and/or Zoning Map of the Municipality shall, without exception, be read by title at three (3) consecutive meetings of Council;
(e) The procedure for making public improvements and levying assessments, including the procedure for combining two (2) or more public improvements, and the levying of assessments therefore, in one (1) proceeding if Council finds that it will be economical and practical to undertake such improvements jointly;
(f) The advertising and awarding of contracts;
(g) Such other general regulations as the Council may deem necessary including, but not limited to adopting one or more ordinances to provide that all meetings of Council and its committees, and any board, commission and other administrative body of the Village shall be open to the public which may be by live attendance, and/or by means of teleconference, videoconference, or any other similar electronic technology, unless a private executive session is called pursuant to the Ohio Revised Code or to meet with the Director of Law or any Assistant Director of Law.
(h) The affirmative vote of at least five (5) members of Council shall be required, whenever Council determines that the predetermined purpose, by existing Ordinance, to which portions of income tax revenues are to be allocated, must be reallocated for any one (1) budget year appropriation, due to exigent circumstances existing at the time such reallocation action is taken.
(i) The estimated or known amount of any expenditure or any proposed project, purchase, lease or provision of services when public bidding shall be required, intending to supersede any conflicting state statutory provision setting the threshold amount. (Amended 11-8-16; 11-2-21; Ord. 3-19-24.)