A majority of the members elected to the Council shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time and compel the attendance of absent members. The Council shall keep a journal of its proceedings.
Council shall, by ordinance, establish measures to ensure public access to all meetings of the Council and of such other public bodies as the Council may determine, except for executive sessions from which the public is excluded. Executive sessions may be authorized by Council for such purposes and in such manner as it deems proper.
The Council shall, by ordinance, make provision for the following:
The time and place of regular meetings, providing for at least one (1) regular meeting in each calendar month;
The manner of calling special meetings;
The enforcement of attendance at its meetings and punishment of disorderly conduct thereat;
The form and method of enacting ordinances and resolutions;
The manner of giving public notice of the enactment of ordinances and of any other of its acts or proceedings which it deems proper to publish;
The reduction of unpaid installments and the return of paid installments of assessments levied in larger amounts than necessary to pay for public improvements, to the extent that such reductions and returns are authorized by the general law of Ohio; provided that such returns may be made to the record owner of the property assessed at the time such return is authorized.
The procedure for making public improvements and for levying assessments, provided that two or more public improvements, including the levying of assessments therefor, may be combined in one proceeding if the Council finds that it will be economical and practical to undertake said improvements jointly;
The advertising and awarding of contracts; and such other general regulations as the Council may deem necessary.
(Approved by voters 11-4-86.)
(Approved by voters 11-4-86.)