As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases have the following specified meanings:
(a) "Clerk" means Clerk of Council of the City of St. Marys, or secretary of other municipal body or committee thereof, required to have open meetings.
(b) "Day" means a calendar day.
(c) "Meeting" means any prearranged discussion of public business of a municipal body, or committee thereof, by a majority of members of such municipal body or committee thereof.
(d) "Municipal body" means each of the following: Council, Board of Control, Planning Commission, Board of Zoning Appeals, Civil Service Commission and such other boards and commissions that the City may have for the purposes of operating its governmental business, and committees of such Municipal bodies.
(e) "Oral notification" means a notification given orally, either in person or by telephone directly to the person to whom such notification is intended or by leaving the oral message at the address or at the telephone number of such person as shown in the records of the initial request for notification.
(f) "Posting" means to post in an area accessible to the public, during usual business hours in the office of the Clerk, which means the lobby of the Municipal Building.
(g) "Publish" means published once in a newspaper having a general circulation in the City.
(h) "Special meetings" means a meeting which is neither a regular meeting nor an adjournment of a regular meeting to another time or day, to consider items specifically stated in the original agenda of the regular meeting.
(i) "Written notification" means notification in writing, mailed or hand delivered to the address of the person for whom such notification is intended as shown on the records kept by the Clerk or the person responsible for delivering such notification.
(Ord. 94-05. Passed 2-14-94.)
(Ord. 94-05. Passed 2-14-94.)