(a) All elected officials of the Village are required to attend all regularly scheduled meetings of Council.
(b) All elected officials of the Village are required to attend all special meetings of Council.
(c) If an elected official anticipates being absent from a regularly scheduled or special meeting of Council, said elected official shall report or cause to be reported, prior to the start of the meeting, the anticipated absence. In any instance where the Fiscal Officer is unavailable, the report shall be made, prior to the beginning of the meeting, to the acting Fiscal Officer, if identified, or, if an acting Fiscal Officer is not identified, to any other member of Council or to the Mayor.
(d) If an elected official fails to attend a meeting and fails to report his or her anticipated absence as required in subsection (c) hereof, such official shall forfeit one-half of his or her monthly salary.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, an elected official may avoid the foregoing penalty by tendering, at the next regularly scheduled meeting of Council, an explanation for the absence and the failure to notify of the absence followed by the passage by a majority vote of Council of a motion to excuse such absence.
(Ord. 1057-97. Passed 10-21-97;Ord. 1420-12. Passed 10-30-12.)