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The City Council may, by resolution, divide and distribute its work precedent to the exercise of legislative power into such number of standing and special committees as the City Council may from time to time deem necessary or expedient and may from time to time by resolution name and prescribe the powers and duties of the committees. Until such further division and distribution of work, the committees of the City Council and their powers and duties shall be as already established.
(Prior Code, § 30.16)
(A) Regular meetings of the City Council shall be held in the Council Chambers on the first and third Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m. However, the regular meetings may be changed from time to time, pursuant to the policy of the City Council adopted by resolution. The regular meeting shall be changed or modified by call of the Mayor or at least four members of the City Council. Special meetings of the City Council shall be held in the Council Chambers upon call by the Mayor or at least four members of the City Council and the day, hour and purpose thereof shall be set forth in the call.
(B) Notice of every special meeting shall be given to each City Council member by notifying the City Council member personally, by telephone, or by leaving a verbal message at the City Council member's usual place of business or residence.
(Prior Code, § 30.17) (Ord. 96-06, passed 2-19-1996; Ord. 23-07, passed 7-17-2023)
City Council members shall take office and commence their duties on the first regular meeting in December following their election. The newly elected City Council members who have qualified as prescribed by law, together with the members of the City Council holding over, shall assemble in a regular meeting at the hour and place prescribed in this code and perfect the reorganization of the City Council as herein provided, and all appointive offices in which the terms of incumbents are expired shall be filled by appointment. After the meeting has been called to order, the City Clerk shall report to the City Council the names of all City Council members-elect who have qualified for their respective offices, and this report shall be spread upon the minutes of the meeting preceding the roll call. Each ward of the city shall be represented by at least two City Council members. No person shall be eligible who is not at the time of election an actual resident of the ward for which the person is qualified and a registered voter. If any City Council member moves from the ward from which the City Council member was elected, that member’s office shall thereby become vacant.
(Prior Code, § 30.18)
Statutory reference:
Change from ward to at large, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-554
Council member qualifications, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-302.01
Vacancies, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-560
Wards, term, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-534
(A) The City Council shall elect one of its own body who shall be styled the President of the Council and who shall preside at all meetings of the Council in the absence of the Mayor.
(B) In the absence of the President, the Council shall elect one of its own body to occupy his or her place temporarily, who shall be styled Acting President of the Council.
(C) The President, and Acting President, when occupying the place of the Mayor, shall have the same privileges as other members of the Council; and all acts of the President or Acting President, while so acting, shall be as binding upon the Council and upon the city as if done by the Mayor.
(Neb. Rev. Stat. § 17-148)
(A) At the first meeting in July of the City Council following any general and regular city election, the City Council shall, by resolution, pass and adopt such rules of procedure and order of business as may be deemed necessary to ensure orderly, efficient and lawful conduct of its affairs, and the rules, when so adopted, shall constitute the standing rules to govern proceedings at all regular and special meetings of the City Council, provided that provision may be made in the rules for amending, temporarily suspending or rescinding any rule or portion thereof. Additional rules may further be adopted from time to time at the discretion of the City Council.
(B) Except as may otherwise be required by law, all ordinances of a general or permanent nature shall be fully and distinctly read aloud, by title only, on three different days unless three-fourths of all members of the City Council vote to suspend this requirement. In case the requirement shall be suspended, the ordinance shall be read by title or number and then moved for final passage.
(C) All resolutions shall contain a title which shall briefly describe and explain the content of the respective resolution and all resolutions shall contain no subject which shall not be clearly expressed in the title. The resolution shall be read by title or number and then moved for final passage.
(D) Three-fourths of all members of the City Council may require any ordinance or resolution to be fully and distinctly read aloud in full before enactment under any of the procedures set out in this section. All ordinances shall be published in full as provided by law.
(Prior Code, § 30.20) (Ord. 92-03, passed 2-3-1992; Ord. 05-06, passed 3-7-2005; Ord. 06-19, passed 6-19-2006)
Statutory reference:
Three readings required for all annexation ordinances, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-404
A vacancy on the City Council shall exist if a member is absent for more than five consecutive regular meetings of the City Council unless the absences are excused by a majority vote of the remaining members.
(Prior Code, § 30.01) (Ord. 2361, passed 6-19-1974)