10877-22 An Ordinance Replacing & Amending Ch.2, Article 1, Sect 2-1 - & Including 2-9 of the SB Municipal Code (SUBSTITUTE BILL)

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Sec. 2-3. Organization meeting of the Common Council; officers; election; terms. (a) The members of the Common Council shall hold their first regular meeting on the first Monday of January after their election at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers. This meeting shall take place at 5:00 p.m. on the first Monday of each succeeding January thereafter. (b) At each first regular meeting, the Council shall choose from members a presiding officer or president, a presiding officer pro tempore or vice-president, the Chairperson of the Committee of the whole, and all other Council officers who shall serve until 7:00 p.m. of the first Monday in January of the next succeeding year. The Council shall also choose its Council Attorney at said meeting if the Council chooses to appoint a Council Attorney pursuant to Sec. 2-7.2(a) of this Article. Sec. 2-3.1. Mayor's Annual Address to Council. (a) The Mayor shall annually address the Common Council at the first regularly scheduled Council meeting each February. (b) The Mayor shall provide a statement of finances and a general condition of the City in his or her annual address. (c) If the Council meeting location needs to be moved from the Council Chambers for the Mayor's annual address in any calendar year, an announcement shall be made by the Council President at the first or second regularly scheduled Common Council meeting in December of the prior year under the "Special Business" portion of that meeting announcing the exact location for that meeting.