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The Mayor and City Council members must be qualified electors of the City as provided in the Kansas Constitution article 5, section 1. The Mayor may live at any location within the City. Council members must live within specified wards. The Council members must be actual residents of the ward for which elected at the time of their election. (Ord. 1177, 11-7-2016)
A. Resignation: A resignation does not take effect with its presentation. It must be accepted to be effective. A person who accepts a public office, either after election or by appointment, cannot divest himself of that office by his own act. Once having accepted the office, the person continues in office until his or her resignation has been accepted by the City Council.
B. Vacancy: If any Council member moves from the ward from which elected, the office shall be deemed vacant.
C. Mayor: When a vacancy occurs in the Office of Mayor by resignation, death, removal from the City, removal from the office, refusal to qualify or otherwise, the President of the City Council becomes the Mayor until the next regular City election and a vacancy occurs in the Office of the Council member becoming Mayor. The City Council then elects a new President of the City Council.
D. Council Member: Whenever there is a vacancy in the Office of Council member, the Mayor and the remaining Council members appoint an elector from the ward where the vacancy occurs and this person serves as Council member for the balance of the unexpired term of the Council member whose office was vacated.
E. Treasurer: Whenever there is a vacancy in the Office of Treasurer, the Mayor and Council members appoint an elector of the City and this person serves as Treasurer for the balance of the unexpired term of the Treasurer whose office was vacated.
F. Council Member Running For Mayor: If a holdover Council member runs for Mayor and is defeated, he does not lose his place on the City Council. If he is elected Mayor, there is a vacancy in his place on the City Council and a successor shall be appointed. (Ord. 1189, 7-16-2018)
The City Council divides the City into wards, establishes the boundaries thereof and the numbers of the same. The territory of each ward should be contiguous and compact. Whenever the number of registered voters in any one ward exceeds by more than twenty percent (20%) of the number of registered voters in another ward, the City Council must change and redefine the boundaries of the wards so that the number of registered voters in each of the wards are as nearly equal as possible, but no such change can be made within thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for holding of election in such ward. (Ord. 1177, 11-7-2016)