Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-21

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twenty-five hundred; mayor $1,000, council
men $1,000.
10. Under twenty-five hundred; mayor
ST 600, councilmen 500.
II. The above classification as to popu-
lation shall be determined by the last
United States Census next preceding the re-
organization of any city.
IL No salary shall be increased except
by vote of the people at general cleo
ton.
Section 925m-311. The council shall
have power from time to time to create
and FIJI Offices and fix the term of service
and salaries other than those described in
the preceding section and to discontinue
any office according to their judgment of
the needs of the city.
Section 925m-312. 1. The council shall
provide by ordinance for the time Of hold
ing regular meetings, and special meetings
may be called by the mayor or by the two
councilmen.
committee thereof, whether regular or spe-
cial to which any person not city officer
is admitted da shall be open to the public.
Section 925m-313. /. No officer or en-
ployee elected or appointed in any such city
shall be interested, directly or indirectly,
in any contract or job for work or mate
rails or the purchase thereof, or service to
be furnished or performed for such city, or
any contract or job for work, materials, or
service to be furnished or performed by any
person, firm, or corporation, street railways,
gas works. water works electric light or
power plants, heating plants, telegraphs,
telephones, or other public utilities within
the property limits of such city.
2. No such officer or employee shall &C.
cept or receive from any person, firm, or
corporation, operating under a public fran
chise. or city license any frank, free pass,
free ticket, or free service. or accept, direct
ly or indirectly, from any such person, firm,
or corporation, any service upon terms more
favorable than those granted to the public
generally, but nothing in this section con-
tanned shall be construed as prohibiting
policemen or firemen from accepting free
trsnsRGratalSSn when on duty in uniform u3n
troller shall each month prepare and pre-
sent to the council a summary statement Of
the revenues and expenses of the city for
the preceding month, detailed as to appro-
priations and funds, and arranged in stand
ard form, together with a balance sheet
statement Of the current assets and current
month. These summaries shall be accom-
panied by such detailed schedules as the
council may by ordinance require. All such
schedules together with a summary Of the
acts and proceedings of the council for
such month shall be published In pamphlet
form by the council who shall furnish copies
thereof to all the newspapers of the city
and to all persons who shah apply therefor,
2. AT the end of each year the council
shall cause full and complete examination
of all OF the books and accounts OF the city
ants, who shall report in full thereon to
the council Copies of such reports shall be
Of the city and to all person who shall APP
ply therefor.
Section 925m-315. If, at the beginning
Of the term of Office of the first council
elected under these sections, the appropria-
tion for the expenditures of the city govern
ment for the current fiscal year have been
made, the council shall have power by
ordinance to revise, repeal, or change such
appropriations and to make additional ap-
preparations
Section 925m-316. l. No ordinance
passed by the council of any such reorgan-
lied city, except an ordinance for the Inn
mediate preservation Of public peace, health.
or safety which contains a statement of its
urgency, and Is passed by an affirmative
in ten days from the time of its final
passage, and If during such ten days petit
ton Is signed by the voters Of such city
equal in number to at least twenty per cent
of the entire vote cast for all candidates for
mayor at the last preceding general election.
protesting against the passage Of such ordi-
nance shall thereupon be suspended and 1t
shall be the duty of the council to recon-
slider such ordinance, and If the same Is not
entirely repealed the council shall submit
the ordinance to the voters of the city either
at a general election or at special election
to be called for that purpose; and such
operative unless a majority of the qualified
voters who vote on the same shall vote In
favor thereof.
2. This section shall not be construed to
of franchises for public utilities or as to
the issuing of municipal bonds.
Section 925m-317. The board of educa-
ton shall continue to be elected or ap-
pointed as provided by law, and any city
work done under the direction of commits
s.ons appointed by the state shall continue
to be done in the manner prescribed by law
prior to the passage of these sections.
Section 925m-31S. Any city which
shall have operated for six or more years
under the provisions Of these sections may
abandon such reorganization and adopt the
provisions of the general law of the state
then applicable to cities of Its class by
proceeding in the manner prescribed for
effecting reorganiza lion under the provisions
of these sections, and such change shall in
no way affect the property. right, or iiabil-
tiles of any nature Of such city, but shall
merely extend to such change in it's form
of government.
Section O. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved June Is, 1909.