(A) The governing body of the city shall be a six-member Council form of government consisting of a Mayor and five Council members, which Council is hereinafter referred to as the "City Council".
(B) Powers and duties.
(1) The City Council is the legislative body of the city; shall exercise the legislative powers and perform the legislative duties and functions of the city; and may perform such other functions as may be specifically provided or necessarily implied bylaw.
(2) The City Council shall establish general policy for the operation of city government, pass ordinances and resolutions, appropriate funds and approve budgets, set all mill levies or taxes, review city administration, and perform any other duties which may be required of it by law or ordinance.
(3) The City Council may exercise any executive or administrative power and perform or supervise the performance of any executive or administrative duty or function that has not been given to the Mayor or the City Manager.
(C) Quorum. No action of the City Council shall be official or of any effect except when a quorum of the Council members are present; provided, that less than a quorum may adjourn a meeting. The number of Council members necessary to constitute a quorum is three, excluding the Mayor.
(D) Mayor presides. The Mayor shall be the Chairperson and preside at the meetings of the City Council.
(E) Mayor Pro Tempore.
(1) On an annual basis in the first City Council meeting in January, the Mayor may select, through advice and consent of the City Council, a City Council member to act as Mayor Pro Tempore throughout the year and to act any time the Mayor is unable to act or refuses to act. The City Council shall vote regarding consent on the Mayor's selection.
(2) In the absence of the Mayor or because of the Mayor's inability or refusal to act or if the Mayor Pro Tempore, who was selected at the beginning of the year, is unable to act or refuses to act, then the City Council may elect a member of the City Council to preside over the meeting as Mayor Pro Tempore.
(3) The election of any Mayor Pro Tempore shall be entered in the minutes of the City Council meeting at which they are elected.
(4) The Mayor Pro Tempore shall preside at Council meetings and perform, during the Mayor's absence, disability, or refusal to act, the duties and functions of the Mayor.
(5) Any member of the City Council elected as Mayor Pro Tempore shall still retain their power and authority as a member of the Council and shall be entitled to vote as a member of the City Council on all matters.
(F) Duties and powers of City Council relative to City Manager. The duties and powers of the City Council relative to the City Manager shall be as follows:
(1) Appointment and removal of City Manager. The City Council shall appoint and remove, with the participation and vote of the Mayor, the City Manager by majority vote thereof. The City Council, with the participation of the Mayor, may conduct annual performance evaluations of the City Manager.
(2) Policy. The City Council shall pass upon and determine all questions of policy unless such policies relate to the administrative duties of the City Manager as defined in this section, in which case the City Manager may create policies as needed to perform his or her defined duties.
(3) Appointments. The City Council shall give advice and consent to the appointment of all officers and the appointment of persons to city boards, committees and commissions, as more particularly provided by law and in this chapter.
(4) Administration. The City Council shall create new departments and organize the city's administration.
(Ord. 02-2023, passed 1-4-2023)