River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-15

FIVE hundred; mayor $1,000, councilmen
81 zoe.
b Under thirty-fve hundred and over
men $1,000.
10. Under twenty-five hundred mayor
$1,000,4 councilmen $780,
II. The above classification as to popu-
latlon shall be determined by the last
United States Census next preceding the re-
organization of any city.
II. No salary shall be increased except
tion. vote q the people at general cleo
Section 925m-311. The council shall
have power from time to time to create
and fill Offices and fix the term of service
ana 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
counciimen.
committee thereof, whether regular or spe-
cial. to which any person not a city officer
is s admitted a shall be open to the public.
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, hrn, 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 ac-
cept or receive from any person, firm, or
corporation, operating under 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
generally, but nothing in this section con-
tained shall BE construed as prohibiting
policemen or aremen from accepting free
Section o25m-314. 1. The city comp
troller shall each month prepare and pre-
sent to the council 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 balance sheet
statement of the current assets and current
libilities Of such city at the close Of such
month. These summaries shall be accom-
panied by such detailed schedules as the
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 shall apply therefor,
q. At the end of each year the council
shall cause a full and complete examination
of all Of the books and accounts of the city
to be made by, competent PUBLIC account
ants, who shall report in full thereon to
the council. Copies of such reports shall be
furnished by the council to all newspapers
of the city and to all person who shall APP
Section 925m-s15. If, at the beginning
of the term of Office of the first council
elected under these sections, the appropria-
ton 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-
Section 925m--316 /. No ordinance
passed. by the council OF. any such reorgan-
lied city, except an ordinance for the i'm
mediate preservation Of public peace, health
or safety which contains a statement of its
urgency, and Is passed by an affirmative
vote of the council, shall go into effect with,
passage, and If during such ten days petit
tion 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, be presented to the council such ordi-
shall be the duty of the council to recon-
slider such ordinance, and IL the same Is not
entirely repealed the council shall submit
the ordinance to the voters OF the city. either
at G general election or at special election
to be called for that purpose; and such
ordinance shall not go into effect or become
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
change the existing laws as to tile granting
Of franchises for public utilities or as to
the issuing of municipal bonds.
Section 925m-317. The board of educa-
tion shall continue to be elected or APP
work done under the direction of commits
sions appointed by the state shall continue
to be done In the manner prescribed by law
prior to the passage of these sections.
Section 925m-318. Amy 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
Of these sections, and such change shall in
no way affect the property. right, OIL liabil-
tiles Of any nature of such city, but shall
merely extend TO such change In it's form
of government.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved June 10, 1909.