(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.
(B) 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 Chairperson 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 Village Clerk.
(C) 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 governing body scheduled outside the corporate limits of the municipality. The governing body shall have the right to modify the agenda to include items of an emergency nature only, at such public meetings.
(D) The minutes of the Village 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 Village Clerk. 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 Village Clerk shall show how each member voted, or that the member was absent and did not vote.
(1997 Code, § 1-503) (Ord. 202, passed 9-8-1987)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 84-1408, 84-1409, 84-1411, 84-1413