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Regular meetings of the Common Council shall be held on the first Monday of each month except when that day is a holiday, in which event the regular monthly meeting shall be held the following day. The time for said meetings shall be set by order of Council, with public notice. However, the Council shall have the power to change the regular appointed day and time of its meetings by ordinance. The Council may by ordinance provide procedures for the call of special meetings. No business may be conducted at either a regular or special meeting unless a quorum is present. All meetings must be conducted in compliance with the West Virginia Open Governmental Proceedings Law.
(Ord. passed 1-18-2002)
1. The City Manager shall be the chief city administrator, and shall supervise all city services, department chiefs, and all city employees. The City Manager, together with the City Clerk, shall develop and periodically revise a city personnel manual with qualification statements and guidelines for all appointed officer and employee positions. The City Manager shall conduct his duties in accord with policies established by the Common Council.
2. The City Clerk shall keep a journal of the proceedings, ordinances, acts, orders, and resolutions of the Common Council, and have charge of and preserve the records of the city, in the city building safe or vault, if there be one. The City Clerk shall also assist the Common Council and the City Manager in the supervision of all city services and shall be responsible for the keeping and periodic reporting of city record books. The City Clerk shall be the chief election officer for the city, and shall conduct all city elections in accord with the election laws of West Virginia.
3. The City Finance Manager shall assist the Common Council and the City Manager to supervise all city financial affairs and the annual audit of city fiscal records, and shall serve as Assessor of the value of properties for city tax purposes.
4. The City Attorney shall conduct city legal business, in accord with policies established by the Common Council, and shall advise the Mayor, Council, and City Manager on all legal matters pertaining to the city.
(Ord. passed 1-18-2002)
The Common Council may, by ordinance, define the duties of all appointed municipal officers and employees and allow them reasonable compensation, and shall require from all those whose duty it is to receive funds, assets or property, or have charge of the same, such bonds as they shall deem necessary or proper to ensure the faithful performance of their said duties. All officers and employees appointed by Council shall hold their office or appointment at the will and pleasure of the Common Council, but no appointee shall hold beyond the current year for which he shall have been appointed without being reappointed by the Council.
(Ord. passed 1-18-2002)
All moneys belonging to the city shall be paid over to the City Financial Manager; and no money shall be paid out by him or her except pursuant to an appropriation by the Common Council, and upon an order signed by the Mayor and the City Clerk.
(Ord. passed 1-18-2002)
The Common Council shall adopt ward regulations, whether general or special, for the good of the citizens living within the wards. The Council also shall appropriate street expenditures for each of the wards based upon equity and need. The Council may authorize the collection of special assessments or taxes for specific purposes.
(Ord. passed 1-18-2002)
No money shall be appropriated, and no debt shall be contracted, for any purpose whatever, except that the funds to meet the same shall have been first provided by levy duly laid, in accordance with the laws of West Virginia; and no contract shall be entered into involving or anticipating future levies, unless all questions connected with the same shall have been first submitted to a vote of the people and have received three-fifths of all the votes cast for and against the same.
(Ord. passed 1-18-2002)
A book, well bound and indexed, to be denominated the “docket”, shall be kept in the office of the Mayor, in which shall be noted each case brought before or tried by him or her, together with the proceedings therein, including a statement of the complaint, the summons, the return, the fact of appearance or non-appearance, the defense, the hearing, the judgment, the costs, in case the judgment be one of conviction, the action taken to enforce the same. The record of each case shall be signed by the Mayor, and the original papers, if no appeal be taken, shall be kept together and preserved in his office; and the Mayor shall deliver to his/her successor the docket and all books and papers pertaining to his office.
(Ord. passed 1-18-2002)
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