Action of Council shall be by ordinance, resolution or motion. Every action of a general and permanent nature, or granting a franchise, or levying a tax, or appropriating money, or contracting an indebtedness to be evidenced by the issuance of bonds or notes, or for the purchase, lease or transfer of public property, or establishing an offense and fixing the penalty therefor, shall be taken by ordinance, in the manner hereinafter provided. All other action may be by resolution or motion.