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The power to lay off, suspend, demote, and remove accompanies the power to appoint or elect; and the council or other appointing or electing authority at any time may lay off, suspend, demote, or remove any officer or employee to whom the council or the other appointing or electing authority respectively may appoint or elect a successor.
The appointing or electing authority who may appoint or elect the successor of any officer or employee, may appoint or elect a person to act during the temporary absence, leave, disability, or suspension of such officer or employee, or, in case of a vacancy, until a successor is appointed or elected and qualifies, unless the council provides a general ordinance that a particular superior or subordinate or such officer or employee shall act. The council by general ordinance may provide for a deputy to act in such cases.
Every officer who is elected or appointed for a term ending at a definite time, shall continue to serve thereafter until his successor is elected or appointed and qualifies unless his services are sooner terminated by resignation, removal, disqualification, death, abolition of the office, or other legal manner.
(a) Neither the Mayor nor any other councilman shall sell or barter anything to the city or to a contractor to be supplied to the city; or make any contract with the city; or purchase anything from the city other than those things which the city offers generally to the public (as for example, utility services), and then only on the same terms as are offered to the public. Any such officer violating this section, upon conviction thereof, shall thereby forfeit his office. Any violation of this section, with the knowledge, express or implied, of the person or corporation contracting with the city, shall render the contract voidable. This subsection shall not apply in cases in which the city acquires property by condemnation.
(b) The council by ordinance or personnel rules may further regulate conflict of interests and ethics of officers and employees of the city.
There shall be a city treasurer. He shall collect or receive revenue and other money for the city; shall be responsible for its custody, safekeeping, deposit, and disbursement, subject to policies adopted by the council; and shall maintain a general accounting system for the city government.
The sale of any property, real or personal, including public utilities, or of any interest therein, the value of which is more than $25,000, may be made only: (1) by authority of an affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors of the city who vote on the question of approving or authorizing the sale at an election; or (2) by authority of a special nonemergency ordinance. Such ordinance shall be published in full in a newspaper of general circulation within the city within ten days after its passage, and shall include a section reading substantially as follows: "Section --. This ordinance shall be referred to a vote of the electors of the city if a legal and sufficient referendum petition is properly filed within thirty days after its passage; otherwise it shall go into effect thirty days after its passage." The sale of an entire public utility may be authorized only as provided in (1) hereinabove, by an affirmative vote of a majority of all the qualified electors of the city entitled to vote on the question.
Public improvements may be made by the city government itself or by contract. The council shall award all contacts for such improvements. A contract for public improvements of more than $1,000 may be awarded only to the lowest and best responsible bidder after such notice and opportunity for competitive bidding as the council may prescribe. All bids may be rejected, and further notice and opportunity for competitive bidding may be given.
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