(A) Regular meetings. Regular meetings of the City Council will be held on the second and fourth Tuesday of each calendar month at 7:00 p.m. Any regular meeting falling upon a holiday will be held at 7:00 p.m. on a day to be determined by the City Council. All regular meetings and adjourned regular meetings will be held in the City Council Chambers in the City Hall unless the City Council determines that a regular meeting should be held elsewhere, in which case notice of the time and place of the meeting will be posted on the door entrances to the City Hall and, if time permits, published in the official newspaper.
(B) Special meetings. The Mayor or any two members of the City Council may call a special meeting of the City Council by notifying the City Clerk of the time, place, and purpose of the meeting. Unless a special meeting date and time is set by the City Council at a City Council meeting, the Clerk shall give each City Councilmember at least three days’ notice of the meeting. The notice will specify the time, place, and purpose of the meeting and will identify the person or persons who called the meeting. The notice will be delivered to the City Councilmember personally or to the City Councilmember’s home by mail. When written notice of a special meeting is not given in accordance with this division (B), a meeting attended by all the members of the City Council or where any member unable to attend gives written notice to the City Council that he or she waives written notice of the special meeting, will be a valid special meeting for the transaction of any business that comes before the meeting. Only business specified in the notice of the special meeting will be transacted and voted on at the special meetings, unless the meeting is attended by all members of the City Council and the additional items brought forth are approved for discussion by a majority of the City Council.
(C) Public meetings. All City Council meetings, including special and adjourned meetings and meetings of City Council committees, will be open to the public, except as otherwise provided by law.
(D) First meeting of the year. At the first City Council meeting in January of each year or as soon after as reasonably possible, the City Council will:
(1) Designate the repository or depositories for city funds;
(2) Designate the legal newspaper for the city; and
(3) Designate an acting Mayor (Mayor Pro Tem) from the City Councilmembers, who will perform the duties of the Mayor during the Mayor’s disability or absence from the city or, in case of a vacancy in the office of Mayor, until a successor has been appointed and qualified.
(Prior Code, § 31.01) (Ord. 07-003, passed 9-11-2007)