(A) All public meetings, as defined by law, shall be held in a municipal public building which shall be open to attendance by the public. All meetings shall be held in the public building in which the governing body usually holds such meetings unless the publicized notice hereinafter required shall designate some other public building or other specified place. The advance publicized notice of all public convened meetings shall be simultaneously transmitted to all members of the governing body and to the public by a method designated by the governing body or by the Mayor if the governing body has not designated a method. Such notice shall contain the time and specific place for each meeting and either an enumeration of the agenda subjects known at the time of the notice, or a statement that such an agenda kept continually current shall be readily available for public inspection at the office of the Municipal Clerk. Except for items of an emergency nature, the agenda shall not be enlarged later than 24 hours before the scheduled commencement of the meeting. The governing body shall have the right to modify the agenda to include items of an emergency nature only, at such public meetings. The minutes of the Municipal Clerk shall include the record of the manner and advance time by which the advance publicized notice was given, a statement of how the availability of an agenda of the then known subjects was communicated, the time and specific place of the meetings, and the names of each member of the governing body present or absent at each convened meeting. The minutes of the governing body shall be a public record open to inspection by the public upon request at any reasonable time at the office of the Municipal Clerk. Minutes shall be written and available for inspection within ten working days or prior to the next convened meeting, whichever occurs earlier; except that, the city may have an additional ten working days if the employee responsible for writing the minutes is absent due to a serious illness or emergency. Any official action on any question or motion duly moved and seconded shall be taken only by roll call vote of the governing body in open session. The record of the Municipal Clerk shall show how each member voted or that the member was absent and did not vote.
(1976 Code, § 1-503)
(B) If the municipality is required to publish a notice or advertisement in a legal newspaper in or of general circulation in the municipality, and if there is no legal newspaper in or of general circulation in the municipality, then the municipality shall publish such notice or advertisement in a legal newspaper in or of general circulation in the county in which the municipality is located. If there is no legal newspaper in or of general circulation in such county, then the municipality shall publish such notice or advertisement by posting a written or printed copy thereof in each of three public places in the municipality for the same period of time the municipality is required to publish the notice or advertisement in a legal newspaper.
(Ord. 727, passed 9-1-1983; Ord. 1479, passed 2-5-2018)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 84-1408, 84-1409, 84-1411, 84-1413