As used in this chapter:
(a) "Clerk" means the City Clerk.
(b) "Hearing" means an administrative hearing or other hearing at which a person may present written or oral testimony on a matter before a municipal body.
(c) "Meeting" means any prearranged discussion of the public business of the municipal body by a majority of the members of the municipal body.
(d) "Municipal body" means City Council, or any board, commission, committee, or similar decision-making body created by the City Charter or by the City Council, and any committee or subcommittee of any such municipal body.
(e) "Oral notification" means notification given orally either in person or by telephone, directly to the person for whom such notification is intended, or by leaving an oral message for such person at the address, or if by telephone, at the telephone number, of such person as shown on the records kept by the Clerk under these regulations.
(f) "Post" means to post in an area accessible to the public during the usual business hours at the office of the Clerk.
A notice identifying the location at which notification will be posted pursuant to these regulations shall be published by the Clerk within ten calendar days after the adoption of these regulations.
(g) "Published" means published once in a newspaper having a general circulation in the Municipality, as defined in Section 103.04.
(h) "Regular meeting" means a meeting at such times as are established by ordinance or permanent rule of the municipal body.
(i) "Special meeting" means a meeting which is neither a regular meeting nor an adjournment of a regular or special meeting to another time or day to consider items specifically stated on the original agenda of such regular or special meeting.
(j) "Virtually" means by way of teleconference, video conference, or any other similar electronic technology.
(k) "Written notification" means notification in writing mailed, e-mailed or delivered to the address of the person for whom such notification is intended as shown on the records kept by the Clerk under these regulations, or in any way delivered to such person. If mailed, such notification shall be mailed by first-class mail, deposited in a U.S. Postal Service mailbox no later than the second day preceding the day of the meeting to which such notification refers, provided that at least one regular mail delivery day falls between the day of mailing and the day of such meeting.
(Ord. 43-2021. Passed 9-7-21.)