A. The City Council shall:
1. Exercise the legislative powers of the City;
2. Pass ordinances and resolutions;
3. Prescribe general policies to be followed by the Mayor in exercising executive power;
4. Appropriate funds, setting appropriate tax levies for general City and library services;
5. Review municipal administration;
6. Adopt the City budget;
7. Establish sewer, water and power rates;
8. Set other general tax and service rates;
9. By ordinance, provide for the manner in which City property is bought, sold, traded, encumbered, or otherwise transferred and the manner in which a subdivision or annexation is approved, disapproved, or otherwise regulated;
10. Supervise, appoint, and direct its own staff and establish job descriptions, job functions, job classifications or reclassifications and compensation for its staff, within the budgeted appropriations and consistent with state law; and
11. Give its advice and consent to the Mayor on all proposed appointments of City department directors, statutory officers, boards, commissions, committees or other bodies established to provide advice or assistance to the operation of the City, or as may otherwise be required by state law.
B. The City Council may:
1. Review and monitor the City administration, conduct public hearings and perform all other duties and responsibilities authorized by state law;
2. Create, consolidate, or abolish departments; and define or alter the functions and duties of each department;
3. Appoint a committee of City Council Members or citizens to conduct an investigation into a department of the City; or any other matter relating to the welfare of the City; and delegate to an appointed committee powers of inquiry that the City Council considers necessary;
4. Make and enforce any additional rule or regulation for its internal operations, the preservation of order, and the transaction of the City Council's business that it considers necessary; and
5. Notwithstanding subsection C2 of this section, make recommendations to any City employee.
C. The City Council Member may not:
1. Have any other compensated employment with the City; or
2. Interfere in any way with a City employee's performance other than City Council staff, or publicly or privately give orders to a City employee of the Mayor. (Ord. 16-17)