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At 10:00 a.m. on the first Monday in May, following a general municipal election at which a mayor is elected, the mayor and council shall meet at the usual place for holding meetings of the mayor and council, at which time the newly elected mayor and the newly elected councilmembers shall assume the duties of their office, and the mayor and council shall organize and, among other things, shall elect a vice mayor from their number, to serve for one (1) year from that date. A like meeting shall be held on the first Monday in May in the years when only councilmembers are elected, and a vice mayor selected likewise. The mayor and council, by ordinance, shall schedule a regular meeting to be held during the first full week of each month, and may schedule such additional regular meetings during any month as they deem necessary or desirable. Special meetings may be called at any time by the mayor or, in the mayor's absence or failure to act, by any four (4) members of the council.
(Ord. No. 9271, § 1, eff. 12-2-99)
Editors Note: Proposition No. 101, approved at a Charter Amendment Special Election held on November 2, 1999 became effective December 2, 1999.
All meetings of the mayor and council shall be public, and a journal of their proceedings shall be kept by the clerk under their direction, and the ayes and noes shall be taken and entered in such journal upon the passage of all ordinances and resolutions, and on the final action of the mayor and council in the granting of franchises, in the authorization of contracts, in the ordering of work to be done or supplies or other public improvements; in all other cases, upon the call of any member.
Four (4) members of the mayor and council, or, in the absence or disability of the mayor, four (4) members of the council, shall constitute a quorum to do business, and four affirmative votes of the mayor and council, or, in the absence or disability of the mayor, four (4) affirmative votes of the members of the council, shall be necessary to adopt any ordinance, resolution or motion, or pass any measure, unless a greater number is specifically required by this Charter. Every ordinance or resolution adopted by the mayor and council must be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk.
(Prop. 403, eff. 2-2-2016)
Annotation--Under provision of 1883 Charter authorizing the vice-chairman of the council to act as mayor in the absence of mayor, similar to ch. VIII, § 1, hereof, held that the vice-chairman may sign ordinances when acting as mayor. City of Tucson v. Arizona Mortuary, 34 Ariz. 495, 272 Pac. 923.
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