Ordinance 3502-16 - Laserfiche WebLink

within the corporate limits of the City at such times as may be fixed by ordinance or resolution. It is the goal to have weekly meetings. However, the Council President or Presiding Officer may, subject to the requirement of 48 regular meetings per year, cancel a regular meeting because of weather, lack of quorum, insufficient meeting agenda items, proximity to holidays or other suitable reason. At least one of such regular meetings shall be held each month in the evening after 6:30 p.m. Special and emergency meetings may be called by the mayor, the president of the council, or any three members of the council by written notice delivered to each member of the council at lust twelve hours before the time . -- . . .. •. •- - in accordance with State law. All Council meetings shall be open to the public, except that the Council may hold executive sessions from which the public is excluded in accordance with state law, including the Open Public Meetings Act(Chapter 42.30 RCW). for purposes directive.No ordinance or resolution shall be passed, or contract let or entered inform inhabitants of the city of the meeting. Meetings of the Council shall be presided over by the President, selected annually by a majority vote of the Council, or in the absence of the President, by a member of the Council selected by a majority of the members present at such meeting. Appointment of a Council Member to preside over the meeting shall not in any way abridge his or her right to vote on matters coming before the Council at such meeting. In the absence of the Clerk, or Deputy Clerk or other qualified person appointed by the Clerk, the Mayor, or the Council,may perform the duties of Clerk at such meeting. A record journal of all proceedings shall be kept, which shall be a public record. PROPOSITION# 1 Shall Everett City Charter Section 3.2 be changed to eliminate the weekly council meeting requirement and to eliminate inconsistency and redundancy with State Law? CHARTER CHANGE YES ❑ CHARTER CHANGE NO ❑ Section 4: Change to Section 15.9. Section 15.9 of the Everett City Charter which reads as follows: The City Clerk and the codifiers of this Charter are authorized to make necessary corrections to this Charter including,but not limited to, deletion of the use of terms which are masculine or feminine so that such references shall apply to the opposite gender also,unless the context of such charter provision shall require otherwise, the correction of scrivener, clerical and typographical errors, references, Charter numbering, Section/subsection numbers and any references thereto. 3