(A) The formation of public policy is public business and may not be conducted in secret. Every meeting of a public body shall be open to the public in order that citizens may exercise their democratic privilege of attending and speaking at meetings of public bodies, except as otherwise provided by the Constitution of the state, federal statutes, and the Open Meetings Act, being Neb. RS 84-1407 et seq.
(B) Each public body shall give reasonable advance publicized notice of the time and place of each meeting by a method designated by the public body and recorded in its minutes. The notice shall be transmitted to all members of the public body and to the public. The notice shall contain an agenda of subjects known at the time of the publicized notice or a statement that the agenda, which shall be kept continually current, is readily available for public inspection at the office of the public body during normal business hours. Agenda items shall be sufficiently descriptive to give the public reasonable notice of the matters to be considered at the meeting. Except for items of an emergency nature, the agenda shall not be altered later than 24 hours before the scheduled commencement of the meeting or 48 hours before the scheduled commencement of a meeting of the City Council scheduled outside the corporate limits of the city. The public body shall have the right to modify the agenda to include items of an emergency nature only at such public meeting.
(C) In order to have an item of business placed upon the agenda, the Mayor and each Councilmember shall have the authority to add items to the agenda prior to the final agenda being released to the public, at least 24 hours prior to a regular or special meeting. Only the elected official who added the item to the agenda shall be able to remove said item, and, it shall be removed 24 hours prior to a public meeting. In the event an individual, other than the Mayor or Councilmember, wishes for an item to be added to the agenda, he or she shall fill out an agenda request form with the City Clerk at least two business days prior to a meeting of the City Council. In the event the topic is deemed to be relevant to the business of the city, either by the Mayor or a Councilmember, shall it be placed upon the agenda.
(Prior Code, § 33.02) (Ord. 409, passed 10-18-1977; Ord. 657, passed 8-26-2021)