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The salary of a member of the commission shall be **twenty dollars ($20.00) per month, and the salary of the mayor shall be **forty dollars ($40.00) per month unless modified by an ordinance adopting the recommendations of a citizens review committee. Said committee shall consist of at least five and not more than nine members who shall be electors of the City of Piqua appointed by the commission, at least one member being a resident of each ward. No officer or employee of the City of Piqua or member of the immediate family of such officer or employee shall be eligible to be a member of said committee. Said committee shall be appointed and convene every four years beginning in 1998 and issue a recommendation on salaries of commission members and the mayor. The commission may, by ordinance only, accept or reject said recommendation.
(Adopted by the electorate November 4, 1997 – Amending Ordinance No. 43-97 & 8-98; Adopted by the electorate November 2, 2010 – Amending Ordinance No. 18-10)
Editor’s note:
The current salary for the Mayor is $500 per month, and the current salary for City Commissioners is $416.67 per month. See Ord. 43-97, passed - -97 and Ord. 8-98, passed 3-2-98.
The commission shall choose a city clerk who shall keep the records of the commission and perform such other duties as may be required by this charter or by the commission. The city clerk shall be chosen for an indefinite term but may be removed at any time by a majority vote of the commission.The number of assistants and other employees in the office of the city clerk shall be fixed by ordinance, but all such assistants and employees shall be appointed, and may be removed, by the city clerk.
The commission shall be the judge of the continuing qualifications of its members and in such cases, shall have power to subpoena witnesses and compel the production of all pertinent books, records, and papers; but the decision of the commission in any such case shall be subject to review by the courts. The commission shall determine its own rules and order of business and keep a journal of its proceedings. It shall have power to compel the attendance of absent members, may censure its members for disorderly behavior and, by an affirmative vote of not less than seventy-five percent of the members, may expel a member for violation of its rules, a violation of the Charter, any criminal act involving dishonesty to which there was a criminal conviction or for some other reason for cause such as an ethical violation; but no member shall be expelled unless notified of the charge against him and given an opportunity to be heard in his own defense. Absence from three consecutive regular meetings shall operate to vacate the seat of a member unless such absence be authorized or excused by the commission.
(Adopted by electorate, November 6, 1979 – Amending Ordinance No. 41-79; Adopted by electorate, November 2, 2010 – Amending Ordinance No. 18-10)
(A) A majority of the members elected to the commission shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance. The affirmative vote of a majority of the members elected to the commission shall be necessary to adopt any ordinance, resolution, order or vote; except that in the absence of a quorum, a vote to adjourn, or regarding the attendance of absent members, may be adopted by a majority of the members present. No member shall be excused from voting except on matters involving the consideration of his own official conduct or when his financial interests are involved. No member shall vote on matters involving the consideration of his own official conduct or when his financial interests are involved.
(Adopted by electorate November 7, 1989-Amending Ordinance No. 52-89
(B) In the event that all members of the commission are removed by death, disability, law, or forfeiture of office the Piqua Planning Commission shall be sworn and assume the duties as interim commission until a special election is called. Such special election shall be called by the interim commission to be held not less than forty nor more than sixty days after assuming the duties as interim commission. The special election is to be held at the same time as any other general or special election held within such time period. But if none such election is to be held within such period the interim commission shall call a special election to beheld within the time aforesaid.
(Adopted by electorate, November 6, 1979-Amending Ordinance No. 48-79)
Ordinances and resolutions shall be introduced in the commission only in written or printed form. No ordinance, resolution, or bylaw shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title. Ordinances making appropriations and ordinances codifying, revising, or rearranging existing ordinances shall be considered as being one subject. Ordinances making appropriations shall be confined to the subject of appropriations. No ordinance shall be passed until it has been read on three separate days, unless the requirement of reading it on three separate days be dispensed with by an affirmative vote of not less than seventy-five percent of the members of the commission. The final reading of each ordinance shall be in full unless a written or printed copy thereof shall have been furnished to each member of the commission prior to such reading. The yeas and nays shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and resolution and entered upon the journal of the proceedings of the commission. The enacting clause of ordinances passed by the commission shall be, “Be it ordained by the people of the City of Piqua”. The enacting clause of ordinances submitted by the initiative shall be, “Be it ordained by the people of the City of Piqua”.
(Adopted by electorate, November 6, 1979 – Amending Ordinance No. 42-79)
Appropriation ordinances, ordinances and resolutions pertaining to local improvements and assessments, ordinances and resolutions providing for or directing any investigation of city affairs, resolutions, requesting information from administrative officers, or directing administrative action, and emergency measures, shall be in effect from and after their passage by the commission unless some other time be specified therein. All other ordinances and resolutions passed by the commission shall be in effect from and after ten (10) days from the date of first publication except those in which a later date for taking effect is specified. Ordinances adopted by vote of the electors shall take effect at the time indicated therein, or, if no time be specified, then thirty (30) days after the election adopting such ordinance or resolution. An emergency measure is an ordinance or resolution to provide for immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health or safety, in which the emergency claimed is set forth and defined in a preamble thereto. The affirmative vote of at least seventy-five percent of the members of the City Commission, either elected or appointed thereto concurring shall be required to pass any ordinance or resolution as an emergency measure. No measure making or amending a grant, renewal or extension of a franchise or other special privilege shall ever be passed as an emergency measure.
(Adopted by electorate, November 7, 1979 – Amending Ordinance No. 43-79)
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