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No vote or action of the Board of Trustees shall be rescinded at any special meeting of the Board of Trustees unless there is present at such special meeting as many members of the Board of Trustees as were present at the meeting when such vote or action was taken, as provided by statute.
(Prior Code, § 30.026)
The following rules shall govern citizen participation in meetings.
(A) Persons desiring to be recognized and speak at open meetings of the Village Board or other public body of the village are encouraged, but are not required, to notify the Village Board or other public body at least one working day prior to the meeting of the subject matter upon which they wish to speak so that the village and its staff can better respond to the person’s concerns.
(B) Persons addressing the Village Board or other public body of the village shall be recognized at the time set forth on the agenda for the meeting.
(C) Prior to addressing the Village Board or other public body of the village, a person shall state his or her name and give a home or business address with telephone number or email address at which the person can be reached.
(D) Persons shall be recognized in the order determined by the Village President or other officer presiding at the meeting. A person shall have the floor for a maximum of five minutes unless that time is extended in the discretion of the Village President or other presiding officer.
(E) If a group of persons share a particular concern, the group will be encouraged, but not required, to appoint one or more spokespersons to speak on behalf of the group.
(F) The Village President or other presiding officer may, in his or her discretion, limit a person’s remark below the five minutes provided in division (D) above if the person’s remarks are cumulative or duplicative of remarks already made by some other person.
(G) Persons addressing the Village Board or other public body of the village shall do so with proper decorum and respect. The Village President or other presiding officer may terminate the presentation of any person violating this division (G). Any person found by the Village President or other presiding officer to have violated this rule on three separate occasions within a calendar year shall thereafter, for a period of at least one year, be required to submit remarks or presentations to the village only in writing.
(H) Persons addressing the Village Board or other public body at a special meeting shall limit their remarks to items on the agenda for the special meeting.
(I) Presentations to the Village Board shall be limited to a person’s business with the village or concerns regarding village business, property, personnel or operations. The Village President or other presiding officer may terminate any presentation to the Village Board which includes personal attacks or the advancement of political, social or other agendas unrelated to the business, property, personnel or operations of the village.
(J) Presentations to the any public body other than the Village Board shall be limited to matters under the jurisdiction of such public body. The presiding officer may terminate any presentation which includes personal attacks or matters not under the jurisdiction of the public body.
(K) These rules are not a limit on the Village President’s or other presiding officer’s authority to expel persons who have breached the peace at a meeting.
(Prior Code, § 30.028) (Ord. 2011-004, passed 3-7-2011)
No contract shall hereafter be made by the President and the Board of Trustees, or any committee or member thereof, and no expense shall be incurred by any officer, or any of the officers or departments of the village, whether the object of the expenditure shall have been ordered by the President and the Board of Trustees or not, unless an appropriation shall have been previously made concerning such expense, except as herein otherwise expressly provided.
(Prior Code, § 30.032)
(A) For terms of office beginning after the consolidated election of April 1997 of the President of the Board of Trustees of the village, the President will receive for his or her services $200 for his or her attendance at each regular or special meeting of the Board of Trustees. The President may be allowed two absences in each year for which compensation may be paid at the rate set herein. The President may miss more than two meetings per year and still receive payment at the set rate if such President can show due cause for such additional absences such as illness of the President, serious illness of a member of the President’s immediate family, a death in the President’s immediate family or other like cause.
(B) For terms of office beginning after the consolidated election of April 1995 of the present Trustees of the village, a member of the Board of Trustees of the village will each receive for his or her services $100 for his or her attendance at each regular or special meeting of the Board of Trustees. Each Trustee may be allowed two absences in each year for which compensation may be paid at the rate set herein. A Trustee may miss more than two meetings per year and still receive payment at the set rate if such Trustee can show due cause for such additional absences such as illness of the Trustee, serious illness of a member of the Trustee’s immediate family, a death in the Trustee’s immediate family or other like cause.
(Prior Code, § 30.033) (Ord. 79-004, passed 4-3-1979; Ord. 83-002, passed 1-18-1983; Ord. 84-020, passed 2-18-1984; Ord. 95-003, passed 1-30-1995)
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