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(a) Salaries. The salaries of the members of council shall be established by ordinance or resolution, provided that the legislation is adopted not less than 30 days prior to the deadline for the filing of nominating petitions by candidates for the office of councilmember for the next term, and subject to further provisions of this charter.
(b) Salary Recommendation. Council shall accept, reject, or modify the civil service commission's recommendations made under Article Six within 90 days of receiving them. Without any action by council within the 90-day period, the recommendations of the civil service commission shall become effective as if adopted by ordinance or resolution under Section 2.8, but consistent with Section 2.3(c).
(c) Timing of Salary Change. No change in the salary for a member of council shall take effect during the current term of that member.
(a) Meetings. At 7:30 p.m. on the first Monday in January following each regular municipal election or, if that Monday falls on a holiday, on the first Tuesday, council shall meet at the usual place of holding council meetings. After the first meeting, council shall meet at times established by its rules or by ordinance or resolution.
The mayor, president of council, or any three members of council may call special meetings of council upon written notice served in whichever ways are reasonably calculated to give members of council the most immediate notice possible, at least six hours before the time of the meeting. Any notice of a special meeting shall state the subject or subjects to be considered at the meeting and no other subject shall be considered.
All meetings of council or its committees shall be open to the public, except that executive sessions may be held in accordance with general law.
(b) Election of Council Officers. The president and vice president of council shall be elected at the first meeting of council by a majority of those present. The member of council present who has the longest consecutive tenure of office shall preside over the organizational meeting until the president of council is elected.
(a) Quorum. A majority of councilmembers shall be a quorum to do business but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members in a manner and under penalties established by ordinance or resolution.
(b) Rules. Council shall determine its own rules and order of business and shall keep a permanent record of its proceedings. Any citizen shall have access to the minutes and records at all reasonable times.
(c) Voting. The affirmative vote of a majority of councilmembers present shall be necessary to adopt any ordinance or resolution. The vote on any ordinance or resolution shall be recorded and kept in a permanent record.
(a) The president and vice president shall each serve a term of two years. The president or vice president may be removed from his or her office by a two-thirds vote of all councilmembers.
The president of council shall preside at all meetings of council and perform the duties imposed by this charter and by the rules of council. The president shall have the same right to vote on all matters presented to council as any other member of council.
(b) In the event of a vacancy in the office, or the temporary absence or disability of the president of council, the vice president shall serve as acting president of council. The acting president shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of the president of council until the vacancy in the office of president of council is filled by council or until the temporary absence or disability of the president of council ends.
Council shall choose a clerk of council and other staff employees it determines to be necessary. The clerk of council shall keep the records of council and perform other duties as required by this charter or by council. The clerk and other staff employees shall serve at the pleasure of council.
(a) Each proposed ordinance or resolution shall be in writing and shall not contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly stated in the title. General appropriation ordinances may contain the various subjects and accounts for which moneys are appropriated. The vote on the passage of each ordinance or resolution shall be officially recorded and the official record shall be publicly available.
(b) No resolution of a permanent character or ordinance shall come to a vote until it has been read, by title, on three separate days. The requirement of reading on three separate days may be dispensed with by a two-thirds vote of all councilmembers. A majority of councilmembers present may require that an ordinance be read in full rather than by title.
No ordinance, resolution or section of an ordinance or resolution shall be revised or amended unless the new ordinance or resolution contains the entire ordinance or resolution or section to be revised or amended, and the ordinance, resolution or section revised or amended is repealed.
(c) No ordinance or resolution shall under any circumstances be adopted or passed unless it has been read on three separate days, which (1) changes the amount of salary or compensation for any elected officer of the city; (2) amends any zoning ordinance; (3) grants, renews or extends a franchise or other special privilege; or (4) regulates the rate to be charged by a public utility for its services.
(d) The enacting clause of all ordinances passed by council shall be "Be it ordained by the city of Lakewood." The enacting clause of all ordinances submitted by initiative shall be "Be it ordained by the people of the city of Lakewood."
(a) Any ordinance or resolution passed by council shall be signed by the presiding officer and presented to the mayor by the clerk of council. If the mayor approves the ordinance or resolution, the mayor shall sign it within 10 days after its passage or adoption.
(b) If the mayor does not approve an ordinance or resolution, the mayor shall return it to council with a statement of his or her objections to the measure within 10 days, or if council is not then in session, at the next regular meeting of council, which objections council shall enter into its minutes. The mayor may approve or disapprove the whole or any item or part of any ordinance or resolution appropriating money, but otherwise the approval or disapproval shall be addressed to the entire ordinance or resolution. Not later than at the next regular meeting, council shall reconsider the legislation and, if upon reconsideration the legislation or the part of the legislation disapproved by the mayor is approved by a vote of two thirds of all members of council, it shall then take effect as if it had received the signature of the mayor.
(c) If the mayor does not sign or disapprove an ordinance or resolution within 10 days after its passage, it shall take effect in the same manner as if the mayor had signed it on the 10th day.
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