It shall be the policy of the city to provide the municipal council and the individual council members with complete and total access to all the records, documents, financial data and administrative reports of the city, and to this end:
A. Administrative officials shall upon request of the council or council members reasonably locate, copy and compile information or records concerning city operations.
B. The municipal council and individual council members may reasonably obtain copies of identified city records and documents free of charge.
C. Should administrative officials deem any of such requests or a series of such requests unreasonable, the matter shall be submitted to the municipal council for a final determination of whether the request was unreasonable.
D. This code shall in no way limit, restrict or in any way hinder the access granted by law to all citizens of the city to peruse, examine and copy the records of the city. (Prior code § 2-1-4(b))