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CHAPTER 06 Title 1 Council CHAPTER 6 COUNCIL SECTION: 1-6-1: Regular Meetings 1-6-2: Special Meetings 1-6-3: Open Meetings 1-6-4: Term of Office 1-6-5: Salary 1-6-6: President of the Council 1-6-7: Consent Agenda 1-6-8: Funds Controlled by Council 1-6-9: Election or Appointment 1-6-10: Declaration of Candidacy 1-6-11: Elections and Petitions for Nomination 1-6-12: Form of Petition 1-6-1: REGULAR MEETINGS: A minimum of one (1) regular meeting of Council shall be held each month. All regular meetings of the Council shall be held at City Hall, 2135 South Ammon Road, Ammon, Idaho. Regular meetings will be held on the first Thursday of the month, and/or on the third Thursday of the month. Meetings shall commence at 7:00p.m. The Mayor shall have the power to cancel or recess any meeting to a different place or time upon giving due notice thereof. 1-6-2: SPECIAL MEETINGS: The Mayor or one half plus one members of the full Council may call a special meeting provided the object of which shall be submitted to the Council in writing, and the call and object of the meeting and all minutes required to be kept by law shall be entered upon the journal kept by the Clerk. 1-6-3: OPEN MEETINGS: All regular and special meetings of the Council shall be open to the public, except the Council may retire into a closed executive session as permitted by State law. The Clerk shall record the vote of Council (2/3 vote in favor) to retire into executive session, and the Clerk shall state in the minutes the general purpose for such session. The Clerk or any other person appointed by the Mayor shall keep such minutes as will indicate the general tenor of the meeting, which minutes shall be recorded in the Clerk’s journal. No final decision for which an affirmative vote of a majority of the Council is required by law may be made while the Council is in executive session. For the purposes hereof, the term “meeting” shall mean any convocation of any meeting of the Council (at which a quorum is present) for the purpose of making a decision or deliberating toward a decision on any matter. 1-6-4: NUMBER, OATH AND TERM OF OFFICE: The number of Council Members shall be six, each having a Council seat number for election purposes Title 1, Chapter 6 Page 1 of 3 REVISED 3-7-2013 assigned by the City Clerk. Each Council Member shall take office after ascribing to the oath of office and upon receipt of their certificates of election. Subscription to the oath of office and delivery of the certificated of election shall be done at the first regular Council meeting in January of the year following a general election. Newly elected members shall be sworn into office in ascending Council seat number. Each member shall serve for a term of four (4) years unless any newly elected member has been elected in conjunction with an increase or decrease in the number of Council members at which time such newly elected member will serve according to the term prescribed in Title 50 Chapter 7 of the Idaho State Code and until his or her successor is elected and qualified or appointed and takes the oath of office. An appointed member of the Council shall serve until the next general city election. 1-6-5: SALARY OF COUNCIL MEMBERS: Each Council Member shall receive a salary of $8,400.00 annually, payable in monthly installments of $700.00 per month. 1-6-6: PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL: At the first regular Council meeting in January of the year following a general election, the Council shall elect one of the Council members as President of the Council. The President of the Council shall preside at all meetings in the absence of the Mayor. During any temporary absence or disability of the Mayor, the President of the Council shall exercise the office of the Mayor until the Mayor shall return or the disability is removed. In case of vacancy in the office of Mayor, the President shall exercise the office of Mayor until such vacancy is filled. In the temporary absence of the Mayor and the President of the Council, the senior member of the Council, as determined from the date and order of swearing in, shall temporarily serve as the President of the Council until the Mayor or President returns. 1-6-7: CONSENT AGENDA: Whenever the Mayor considers an item to be routine and non-controversial, he or she may place the same on the consent agenda for consideration at any regular meeting of the Council; provided, however, any action which may be taken only by ordinance may not be placed on the consent agenda. Items of business on the consent agenda may include, but need not be limited to, the following: approval of minutes; approval of citizen appointments; referrals to committees; approval of reports; approval or authorization of communications; approval or resolutions or other items which had been considered by the Council at earlier meetings; and setting of public hearings. The consent agenda may be considered by the Council as a single item and may be introduced by a motion to approve the consent agenda. On objection to the inclusion of any item on the consent agenda by any member of the Council, that item shall be removed from the consent agenda and may be considered at any time in the meeting which the Mayor deems appropriate. Neither a formal motion nor a second is necessary to remove an item from the consent agenda. Such objections shall be recorded prior to taking the vote to approve the consent agenda. There shall be no debate or discussion of any item on a consent agenda beyond asking questions for a simple verification. Passage of the consent agenda shall be fully equivalent to approval, adoption, or enactment of each motion, resolution, or other item of business thereon as if each item thereon had been acted upon individually. Approval of the motion must be by a roll call vote. The Clerk shall record in the Council minutes each item passed under the consent agenda, individually and in full. Title 1, Chapter 6 Page 2 of 3 REVISED 3-7-2013 1-6-8: FUNDS CONTROLLED BY COUNCIL: All monies and funds belonging to or controlled by the City shall be controlled and administered by the Mayor and Council in the manner required by law and subject to all ordinances and rules and regulations adopted by the Council as may be necessary for the efficient and prudent use and protection of the same. 1-6-9: ELECTION OR APPOINTMENT: All members of the Council shall be elected at large or appointed in the manner provided by law. Any candidate seeking election to the council shall file for one (1) of the assigned council seats. At any general election the candidate or candidates to receive the highest number of votes for each assigned council seat shall be declared the winner(s). The City Clerk shall assign a permanent number from one to six for each council seat. Candidates for odd-numbered seats shall stand for election in one biennial election and candidates for even-numbered seats shall stand for election in the next biennial election. The Clerk shall maintain a written record of the numbers assigned to each seat and the identity of the Council member occupying the same. The City Clerk shall provide a copy of such record upon request of any person during the regular office hours of the Clerk. 1-6-10: DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY: Each candidate shall file a Declaration of Candidacy with the City Clerk before any Petition of Candidacy is signed or circulated. The declaration of candidacy shall be accepted only on a designated form provided by the City Clerk. Any candidate seeking election to the City Council shall file their candidacy for one (1), and only one (1), council seat per election year. The candidate shall meet all other qualifications for the office of City Councilmember, as required by law. All nominating petitions must contain, at the time of initiating circulation of a petition, the council seat number for which the candidate is being nominated. The council seat number must be in the same format and font as the remainder of the petition and may not be added or changed after the petition is circulated. Only petition forms designating a particular seat and a particular candidate, provided by the Ammon City Clerk, will be accepted by the City Clerk. The name of the candidate and the seat designation must be disclosed at the time of obtaining the petition from the City Clerk. No candidate shall circulate petitions for more than one designated seat in any election cycle. Any petition not containing such designated seat number, in the manner herein required, shall be null and void. 1-6-11: ELECTIONS AND PETITIONS FOR NOMINATION: All elections shall be non-partisan in nature and shall be conducted in the manner provided in Chapter 4, Title 50, Idaho Code. Candidates for election to the Council shall accompany the Declaration of Candidacy with (1) a Petition of Candidacy signed by not less than five (5) registered qualified electors; or (2) a nonrefundable filing fee of forty dollars ($40.00), which shall be deposited in the city treasury. A qualified elector may not nominate more persons than the number of seats up for election. Any signatures made in violation of this section shall be void for all petitions signed in violation of this section. 1-6-12: FORM OF PETITION: Petitions of Candidacy shall be in submitted in and on the Petition of Candidacy form as provided by the City Clerk. Title 1, Chapter 6 Page 3 of 3 REVISED 3-7-2013