The Council shall hold regular meetings at least twice a month, the time of which shall be prescribed by ordinance. Council may dispense with regular meetings for not more than one month each year. All meetings shall be held in the Council Chambers, except for exceptional circumstances when the President of Council may designate another location, and give public notice by publication as provided for ordinances and resolutions, and by posting the change of location at the Council Chambers.
Special meetings may be called by a majority vote of Council taken at any regular or special meeting; or shall be called by the Clerk of Council upon request of the Mayor, President of Council, or any three members of Council. Any such vote or request shall state the time and subject or subjects to be considered at the meeting and no action shall be taken on any other matters. Twenty-four hours written notice of the time and date of special meetings called by request of the Mayor, President of Council, or three Council members shall be given to each member of Council, the President of Council, and the Mayor either personally or by delivering a copy thereof to their usual place of residence. Service of such notice may be waived by an instrument in writing signed prior to the time of such meeting, and the Mayor, President of Council, and any member of Council shall be deemed conclusively to have waived such notice by attendance at such meeting.
In adopting its own rules and regulations, Council shall provide for an opportunity during the meeting wherein any group or person attending any regular or special meeting shall be permitted to speak on any matter, past or current, pertinent to municipal affairs.
All meetings of the Council shall be open to the public except the portions thereof devoted to the discussion of threatened or actual litigation, personnel matters, and the sale and acquisition of land or any other matter permitted under Ohio law to be discussed in closed session.
(Amended by voters 11-3-81; 11-2-21.)