As used in this chapter the following words shall have the meanings herein ascribed.
(a) “Clerk" means the Clerk of Council.
(b) "Day" means calendar day.
(c) "Meeting" means any prearranged discussion of the public business of the municipal body by a majority of the members of the municipal body, other than an executive session.
(d) “Municipal body" means each of the following:
(1) Council.
(2) Assessment Equalization Boards.
(3) Planning Commission.
(4) Board of Building and Zoning Appeals.
(5) Architectural Review Board.
(6) Recreation Commission.
(7) Committees of the above municipal bodies comprised of members of such bodies if such committees are comprised of a majority of the members of the main municipal body or are decision-making committees.
(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 this chapter.
(f) "Executive sessions" means those meetings which need not be open to the public, which include:
(1) Consideration of the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion or compensation of a public employee or official, or the investigation of charges or complaints against a public employee or official licensee or regulated individual.
(2) Consideration of the purchase of property, or sale of property at competitive bidding.
(3) Conferences with an attorney for the public body concerning disputes that are the subject of pending or imminent court action.
(4) Preparing for, conducting or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with public employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment.
(5) Consideration of matters required to be kept confidential by federal law or rules or State statutes.
(6) Considering specialized details of security arrangements under certain circumstances.
(7) Deliberations of fact-finding administrative boards and commissions.
(g) "Post" means to post at the location provided in Section 123.01. A notice identifying the location at which notifications will be posted pursuant to this chapter shall be published by the Clerk within ten calendar days after the adoption thereof.
(h) "Published" means published once in a newspaper having a general circulation in the Municipality, as defined in Ohio R.C. 7.12, except that no portion of such newspaper need be printed in the Municipality. Alternatively, the Clerk may publish in a City newsletter. If at the time of any such publication there is no such newspaper of general circulation, then such publication shall be in a newspaper then determined by the Clerk to have the largest circulation in the Municipality, or in the City newsletter.
(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) "Written notification" means notification in writing mailed, telegraphed or delivered to the address of the person for whom such notification is intended as shown on the records kept by the Clerk provided for by this chapter, 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. 1347-1976. Passed 3-15-76.)