Section
30.01
City Council
meetings
30.02
Presiding officer
30.03
Minutes
30.04
Order of business
30.05
Voting
30.06
Ordinance,
resolutions, motions, petitions and communications
30.07
Suspension or
amendment of rules
30.08
Compensation of
Mayor and Council Members
30.09
Compensation of
officers and employees
30.10
Quorum for
conducting business
30.11
Fees and charges
§ 30.01 CITY COUNCIL
MEETINGS.
(A) Regular meetings. Regular
meetings of the City Council shall be held at least once each month, at a date,
time and place as established by the City Council. Any regular meeting falling upon a holiday
shall be held on the next following business day at the same time and
place. All meetings, including special
and adjourned meetings, shall be held in the city hall unless the City Council
decides otherwise at a prior meeting, or meeting in the city hall is
impossible.
(B) Special meetings. The Mayor or any two members of the City
Council may call a special meeting of the City Council upon at least 24 hours
written notice to each member of the City Council. This notice shall be delivered personally to
each member or shall be left at the member’s usual place of residence with some
responsible person. Pursuant to M.S. §
471.705, as it may be amended from time to time, written notice of any special
meeting shall be posted giving the date, time, place and purpose
of the meeting at least three
days before the meeting. Written notice
shall be mailed at least three days before the meeting to anyone who has filed
a written request for notice of special meetings. In calculating the three days, if the last
day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the next regular business day
shall be counted as the third day.
(C) Emergency meetings. Notice of emergency meetings shall be given
as required by M.S.
§ 471.705, Subd. 1c(c), as it
may be amended from time to time. An
emergency meeting is a meeting defined by M.S. § 471.705, Subd. 1c(c), as it
may be amended from time to time.
(D) Initial meeting. At the first regular City Council meeting in
January of each year, the City Council shall:
(1)
Designate the
depositories of city funds;
(2)
Designate the
official newspaper;
(3)
Choose one of the
Council Members as Acting Mayor, who shall perform the duties of the Mayor
during the disability or absence of the Mayor from the city or, in case of a
vacancy in the office of Mayor, until a successor has been appointed and
qualifies;
(4)
Appoint officers and employees and members of departments, boards,
commissions and committees as may be necessary;
(5)
Establish and appoint Council Members to those City Council committees
as are deemed appropriate for the efficient and orderly management of the city.
(E) Public meetings. All City Council meetings including special,
emergency and adjourned meetings and meetings of City Council committees shall
be conducted in accordance with the Minnesota Open Meeting Law, M.S. § 471.705,
as it may be amended from time to time.
§
30.02 PRESIDING OFFICER
(A) Who presides. The Mayor shall preside at all meetings of
the City Council. In the absence of the
Mayor, the Acting Mayor shall preside.
In the absence of both, the City Clerk shall call the meeting to order
and shall preside until the Council Members present at the meeting choose one
of their number to act temporarily as presiding officer.
(B) Procedure. The presiding officer shall preserve order,
enforce any rules of procedure adopted by the City Council, and determine
without debate, subject to the final decision of the City Council on appeal,
all questions of procedure and order.
(C) Appeal procedure. Any member may appeal to the City Council a
ruling of the presiding officer. If the
appeal is seconded, the member may speak once solely on the question involved
and the presiding officer may explain the ruling, but no other Council member
shall participate in the discussion. The
appeal shall be sustained if it is approved by a majority of the members
present, including the presiding officer.
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30.03 MINUTES.
(A) Generally. Minutes of each City Council meeting shall be
kept by the City Clerk or, in the City Clerk’s absence, by the Deputy City
Clerk. In the absence of both, the
presiding officer shall appoint
a
secretary pro tem. Ordinances,
resolutions and claims need not be recorded in full in the minutes if they
appear in other permanent records of the City Clerk and can be accurately
identified from the description given in the minutes.
(B) Approval. The minutes of each meeting shall be reduced
to typewritten form, shall be signed by the City Clerk, and copies thereof
shall be delivered to each Council Member as soon as practicable after the
meeting. At the next regular City
Council meeting following the delivery, approval of the minutes shall be
considered by the City Council. The
minutes need not be read aloud, but the presiding officer shall call for any
additions or corrections. If there is no
objection to a proposed addition or correction, it may be made without a vote
of the City Council. If there is an
objection, the City Council shall vote upon the addition or correction. If there are no additions or corrections, the
minutes shall stand approved.
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30.04 ORDER OF BUSINESS.
(A) Order established. Each meeting of the City Council shall
convene at the time and place appointed therefore. City Council business shall
be conducted in the following order unless varied by the presiding officer:
(1)
Call to order.
(2)
Roll call.
(3)
Approval of
minutes.
(4)
Consent agenda.
(5)
Public hearings.
(6)
Petitions,
requests, and communications.
(7)
Ordinances and
resolutions.
(8)
Reports of
officers, boards, and committees.
(9)
Unfinished
business.
(10) New business.
(11) Miscellaneous.
(12) Adjournment.
(B)
Petitions and agenda.
Petitions and other papers addressed to the City Council shall be read
by the City Clerk upon presentation of the same to the City Council. All persons desiring to present new business
before the City Council shall inform the City Clerk thereof at least 72 hours
before new business is to be heard. The
City Clerk may prepare an agenda of the new business for submission to the City
Council on or before the time of the next regular meeting.
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30.05 VOTING.
The votes of the Council Members on any
question may be taken in any manner which signifies the intention of the
individual members, and the votes of the Council Members on any action taken
shall be recorded in the minutes. The
vote of each Council Member shall be recorded on each appropriation of money,
except for payments of judgments, claims and amounts fixed by statute. If any Council Member is present but does not
vote, the minutes, as to his or her name, shall be marked “Present-Not Voting.”
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30.06 ORDINANCE, RESOLUTIONS, MOTIONS, PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS.
(A) Signing and publication proof.
Every ordinance and resolution passed by the City Council shall be signed by
the Mayor, attested by the City Clerk, and filed by the City Clerk in the
ordinance or resolution book. Proof of
publication of every ordinance shall be attached and filed with the ordinance.
(B) Repeals and amendments. Every ordinance or resolution repealing a
previous ordinance or resolution or a section or subdivision thereof shall give
the number, if any, and the title of the ordinance or code number of the
ordinance or resolution to be repealed in whole or in part. Each ordinance or resolution amending an
existing ordinance or resolution or part thereof shall set forth in full each
amended section or subdivision as it will read with the amendment.
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30.07 SUSPENSION OR AMENDMENT OF RULES.
These rules may be suspended only by a
two-thirds vote of the members present and voting.
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30.08 COMPENSATION OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
The compensation of the Mayor and the
compensation of each Council Member shall be established from time to time by
City Council ordinance pursuant to M.S. § 415.11, as it may be amended from
time to time.
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30.09 COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.
Officers and employees of the city shall be
compensated at a rate as established from time to time by City Council
ordinance.
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30.10 QUORUM FOR CONDUCTING BUSINESS.
(A) A quorum shall consist of a
majority of the entire City Council, including the Mayor. A quorum shall be necessary to transact the
business of the City Council.
(B) If no quorum if present, the City
Council shall not thereby stand adjourned, but the members present shall
adjourn or recess the City Council by a majority vote.
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30.11 FEES AND CHARGES.
The City Council may enact an ordinance
establishing those fees and charges that are authorized by this code. Until that ordinance becomes effective, all
fees and charges established by ordinance or resolution prior to the adoption
of this code shall remain in effect. All
fees and charges established by the ordinance establishing fees and charges may
be amended from time to time by amendment of that ordinance.