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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 2', '§ 62', '§ 95', '§ 15', '§ 15', '§ 62', '§ 95', '§ 95', '§ 62', '§ 95']

City of Brodhead, WI Mayor and Council
§ 95-1 City government.
§ 95-2 Common Council.
§ 95-3 Alderpersons.
§ 95-4 Mayor.
§ 95-5 President of Council.
§ 95-6 Standing committees.
§ 95-7 General powers of Common Council.
§ 95-8 Cooperation with other municipalities.
§ 95-9 Internal powers of Council.
§ 95-10 Salaries.
§ 95-11 Annual organization meeting; regular meetings.
§ 95-12 Special meetings.
§ 95-13 Open meetings.
§ 95-14 Quorum.
§ 95-15 Presiding officers.
§ 95-16 Order of business.
§ 95-17 Enactment of ordinances.
§ 95-18 Publication and effect of ordinances.
§ 95-19 Conduct of deliberations.
§ 95-20 Procedure at public hearings.
Chapter 95 Mayor and Council
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Brodhead as § 2-1-1 and Title 2, Ch. 2, of the 1997 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Mayor-Council government. The City of Brodhead is a body corporate and politic with the powers of a municipality at common law and governed by the provisions of Chs. 62 and 66, Wis. Stats., laws amending those chapters, other acts of the Legislature and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin. The City of Brodhead operates under the Mayor-Council form of government under Ch. 62, Wis. Stats.
Legislative branch. The Common Council is the legislative branch of City government. Its primary business is the passage of laws in the form of ordinances or resolutions which shall prescribe what the law shall be, not only in relation to the particular facts existing at the time, but as to all future cases arising under it. The Common Council shall establish the salaries of all officers and employees of the City and be charged with the official management of the City's financial affairs, its budget, its revenues and the raising of funds necessary for the operation of the City.
Executive branch. The Mayor shall be the chief executive officer. He shall take care that all City ordinances and state laws are observed and enforced and that all City officers, boards, committees and commissions discharge their duties. When present, he/she shall preside at the meetings of the Common Council. The Mayor shall from time to time give the Council such information and recommend such measures as he may deem advantageous to the City.
The Alderpersons of the City of Brodhead shall constitute the Common Council. The Common Council shall be vested with all the powers of the City not specifically given some other officer, as well as those powers set forth elsewhere throughout this Code.
[Amended by Charter Ordinance 10-23-1989; 10-10-2011; 12-9-2013]
There shall be six Alderpersons elected at large to the Common Council. Each shall have a two-year term of office.
Three Alderpersons shall be elected in the annual spring election of odd-numbered years. Three Alderpersons shall be elected in the annual spring election of even-numbered years.
The provisions of the Wisconsin Statutes with reference to primaries and municipal elections are hereby incorporated herein by reference and shall apply.
The provisions of §§ 62.08 and 62.09(1), Wis. Stats., and Charter Ordinance October 23, 1989, concerning election of Alderpersons from aldermanic districts, are made inapplicable in the City of Brodhead.
The Mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the City. The Mayor shall take care that City ordinances and the state statutes are observed and enforced.
The Mayor shall, from time to time, provide the Council such information and recommend such measures as he/she may deem advantageous to the City. When present, the Mayor shall preside at the meetings of the Council.
Veto power. The Mayor shall have the veto power as to all acts of the Council except such as to which it is expressly or by necessary implications otherwise provided. All such acts shall be submitted to him/her by the City Clerk-Treasurer and shall be enforced upon his/her approval, evidenced by his/her signature, or upon his/her failing to approve and disapprove within five days, which fact shall be certified thereon by the City Clerk-Treasurer. If the Mayor disapproves, he/she shall file his/her objection with the City Clerk-Treasurer, who shall present it to the Council at its next regular meeting. A 2/3 vote of all the members of the Council shall be necessary to make the act effective, notwithstanding the objection of the Mayor.
Wherever in this Code the Mayor is required to appoint citizens to committees, commissions and/or boards, the Mayor shall give written notice by executive letter to the Common Council at least seven days prior to the Council meeting at which such appointment shall be made. In the event the Common Council rejects a Mayor's appointment, the same name may not be submitted for the same job for a period of 12 months after the refusal of such appointment.
In the event a vacancy occurs in any committee, board or commission requiring the appointment of a citizen member and the Mayor does not nominate a successor thereof for a period of 60 days after the vacancy occurs, the Common Council may then nominate an appointee to such position, subject to the approval of the Mayor.
The Common Council at its first meeting subsequent to the regular election and qualification of new members shall, after organization, annually choose from its members a President who, in the absence of the Mayor, shall preside at meetings of the Council and, during the absence or inability of the Mayor, shall have the powers and duties of the Mayor, except that he/she shall not have power to approve an act of the Council which the Mayor has disapproved by filing objections with the City Clerk-Treasurer. He/she shall, when so officiating, be styled "Acting Mayor." The President of the Council shall be elected for a one-year term of office.
[Amended 3-17-2015; 4-19-2016]
At the organizational meeting of the Common Council in each year following the annual election, the Mayor shall appoint one Alderperson and three citizens to each of the following committees, subject to Council confirmation, which shall have such duties and responsibilities as prescribed by the Mayor and this Code, and to make whatever recommendations to the Council as they deem appropriate or as may be directed by the Council:
Personnel and Insurance Committee.
The Mayor may, from time to time, appoint such special committee or committees as he/she may deem advisable or as provided for by motion or resolution, appointing members pursuant to Subsection A and stating the objective thereof, to perform such duties as may be assigned to them.
Committee appointments shall be made pursuant to § 95-4D of the Code of Ordinances. The chairperson of each committee shall be the Alderperson appointed by the Mayor to that committee. Each member shall serve as appointed unless excused by a majority of the members of the Council. The Mayor shall be an ex officio member of each standing committee.
Committee members shall abide by § 15-10 in regard to residency and attendance.
The Mayor may refer new business coming before the Common Council to the appropriate committee, unless otherwise referred or disposed of by motion of the Council.
The committee to which any matter is referred should report its recommendation thereon, in writing, at the first regular meeting after such reference, unless there is no objection by the Council to further time being taken. Action on the report of a committee shall be deferred until the next regular meeting by the request of three Alderpersons present. Members dissenting from a report of a committee may be so reported when they request it.
The Chairperson of the committee may report verbally to the Council at the meeting at which the report of the committee is to be made. Adoption of the committee report shall comprise final Council action on any ordinance, resolution or other matter recommended for adoption by the committee report.
Formal committee recommendations will be placed on the agenda for Council action only if they are submitted to the City Clerk-Treasurer in written form by 12:00 noon of the Friday prior to the meeting at which action is requested.
All committees shall abide by § 15-9 regarding meetings and notice requirements.
Acquisition and disposal of property. The Common Council may acquire property, real or personal, within or without the City, for parks, libraries, historic places, recreation, beautification, streets, waterworks, sewage or waste disposal, harbors, improvement of watercourses, public grounds, vehicle parking areas and for any other public purpose; may acquire real property within or contiguous to the City, by means other than condemnation, for industrial sites; may improve and beautify the same; may construct, own, lease and maintain buildings on such property for instruction, recreation, amusement and other public purposes; and may sell and convey such City-owned property, except dedicated platted parks.
Construction of powers. Consistent with the purpose of giving to cities the largest measure of self-government in accordance with the spirit of the home rule amendment to the Constitution, the grants of power to the Common Council in this section and throughout this Code shall be liberally construed in favor of the rights, powers and privileges of cities to promote the general welfare, peace, good order and prosperity of the City and its inhabitants.
Vacancies. Pursuant to § 62.09(5), Wis. Stats., if any officer be incapacitated or absent for any cause, the Common Council may appoint some person to discharge his/her duties until he/she returns or such disability has ended.
§ 95-10 Salaries. [1]
Meetings. Regular meetings of the Common Council shall be held on the second Monday of each regular month at 7:00 p.m. and on the third Tuesday of each regular month at 7:00 p.m. Any regular meeting falling on a legal holiday shall be rescheduled or canceled by a majority vote of those present at the meeting immediately prior to the meeting falling on a legal holiday or by rescheduling by the Mayor. Additional meetings of the Common Council beyond the regular meetings described herein may be scheduled at any time at a meeting of the Common Council by a majority vote of those present. All meetings of the Common Council, including special and adjourned meetings, shall be held in the Brodhead City Hall.
[Amended 6-29-2010]
Special meetings may be called by the Mayor upon written notice of the time and purpose thereof to each member of the Council delivered to him/her personally or left at his/her usual place of abode at least six hours before the meeting. The City Clerk-Treasurer shall cause an affidavit of service of such notice to be filed in his/her office prior to the time fixed for such special meetings. Special meetings shall comply with the notice provisions of the Wisconsin Open Meeting Law. In addition, a special meeting may be called by a written request signed by two Alderpersons, which written notice for said special meeting shall be delivered to every member of the Council and the Mayor personally, or left at or mailed to their abode at least 24 hours before said meeting being called. If a written request is obtained, it shall be filed with the City Clerk-Treasurer prior to the beginning of the meeting.[1]
Presiding officer; duties. The Mayor, President of the Council, or the presiding officer, shall:
Announce, at the conclusion of the roll call, the fact of the presence of a quorum or not, as the case may be.
Authenticate, by his/her signature, when necessary, all ordinances, resolutions, orders and proceedings of the meetings of the Council over which he/she presides.
Preserve order and decorum; speak to points of order in preference to others, rising from his/her seat for that purpose; and decide questions of order, subject to an appeal by any member.
Order of business. At all regular meetings, the order of business shall be according to the tentative agenda prepared by the City Clerk-Treasurer. All matters to be considered at a regular or special Council meeting shall be submitted to the City Clerk-Treasurer at least by 12:00 noon of the day prior to the meeting. All copies of the agenda shall be forwarded by the City Clerk-Treasurer to the representatives of the media that have requested meeting agendas under the Open Meeting Law as part of his/her notice of such public meeting and to members of the Council. The following order may be observed in the conduct of all meetings of the Council:
Reports from Mayor, City officers, City Attorney and department heads.
Citizen comments. The Mayor or presiding officer shall determine at what point in a meeting citizens will be called upon to speak and may impose a limit on the length of time a citizen may address the Council. A written form may be provided by the City Clerk Treasurer on which citizens may register to speak at a Council meeting. The subject to be addressed and/or agenda item shall be indicated.
Ordinances to be in writing. All ordinances submitted to the Council shall be in writing and be titled. Upon passage by the Council, the City Clerk-Treasurer shall superintend the publication of the same. Any written material introduced may be referred to the appropriate committee pursuant to § 95-6. Any member of the Council may require the reading in full of any ordinance or resolution at any time it is before the Council.
Notice. The Common Council may take action on an ordinance only if the subject of the ordinance appears on the written agenda for the meeting at which action is requested.
All general ordinances of the City and all regulations imposing any penalty shall be published, either in their entirety or as a notice as provided in § 62.11(4), Wis. Stats., in the official paper of the City once within 15 days of passage and shall be immediately recorded, with the affidavit of publication, by the City Clerk-Treasurer in a book kept for that purpose. A printed copy of such ordinance or regulation in any book, pamphlet or newspaper and published or purporting to be published therein by direction of the Common Council shall be prima facie proof of due passage, publication and recording thereof.[1]
The City Code shall be kept currently to date, and upon passage of any ordinance, the Clerk-Treasurer shall provide for incorporation of the same into the Code.
Roll call. When the presiding officer shall have called the members to order, the City Clerk-Treasurer shall proceed to call the roll in alphabetical order, noting who is present and who is absent. If, after having gone through the call, it shall appear that a quorum is not present, the fact shall be entered in the minutes, and the members present may adjourn to a later date in the month. If they do not, the Council shall stand adjourned to the time appointed for the next regular meeting unless a special meeting is called sooner as provided by the Wisconsin Statutes or §§ 95-12 and 95-13.
Meeting attendance. All members of the Common Council shall attend all Council meetings, meetings of committees to which members have been appointed, and special or adjourned meetings when duly notified thereof. A member who does not appear in answer to his/her name when the roll is called at any regular meeting or any special or adjourned meeting when notified thereof shall be marked absent. Any member seeking to be excused from attending any regular or special meeting must notify the Mayor or City Clerk-Treasurer in advance of such meeting, explaining the reason for his/her absence, and, upon complying with this requirement, such members shall be duly excused from attending said meeting.
When a member is to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the Council, he/she shall respectfully address himself/herself to the presiding officer and confine his/her remarks to the question under debate and avoid personalities.
Roll call vote procedure. The ayes and nays shall be ordered upon any question at the request of any member of the Council, or the Mayor, and the City Clerk-Treasurer shall call the roll starting with the Alderperson whose last name appears first on the list of the Alderpersons' names alphabetically arranged, and, on the next call of the roll, at the same or any subsequent meeting, the Clerk-Treasurer shall start with the Alderperson whose name appears next on said alphabetical list, and each subsequent call of roll shall begin with the name of the Alderperson next on said alphabetical list of Alderpersons; such order of roll call shall be followed until the list of Alderpersons has been completed. Each time the list has been completed, the City Clerk-Treasurer shall again start on top of the list and proceed on down through the list.
Motions with preference. During any meeting of the Common Council, certain motions will have preference. In order of precedence they are:
Motion to call previous question. This motion may be made at any time after the debate or discussion commences related to an action item, business item, motion or question that is properly before the Common Council. This motion is a nondebatable motion. This motion, if adopted, ends the debate and discussion at the meeting on the action item, business item, motion or question. The motion, if adopted, brings the Common Council to a direct vote with the first vote on any amendments, if any, and then to the main action item, business item, motion or question.
Motion to postpone to a date certain. This motion may be made at any time after the debate and discussion commences on an action item, business item, motion or question that is properly before the Common Council. This motion is debatable. This motion, if adopted, ends the debate and discussion at the meeting on the action item, business item, motion or question. This motion must establish a date and time certain when the debate and discussion before the Common Council will continue. The date and time established must be on a date and time for a regularly scheduled or special meeting of the Common Council.
Motion to a committee. This motion may be made at any time after the debate and discussion commences on an action item, business item, motion or question that is properly before the Common Council. The motion is debatable. This motion, if adopted, ends the debate and discussion at the meeting on the action item, business item, motion or question. This motion, if adopted, forwards the action item, business item, motion or question to a committee for further review and discussion. The committee must be a committee of the Common Council.
Motion to amend or divide the question. This motion may be made at any time after debate and discussion commences on the action item, business item, motion or question properly before the Common Council. The motion is debatable. This motion, if adopted, divides the main action item, main business item, main motion or main question pursuant to the method described and adopted in the motion to divide.
Motion to postpone indefinitely. This motion may be made at any time after debate and discussion commences on the action item, business item, motion or question properly before the Common Council. This motion is debatable. This motion, if adopted, ends the debate and discussion at the meeting on the action item, business item, motion or question.
Motion to introduce a matter related to the action item, business item, motion or question. This motion may be made at any time after the debate and discussion commences on the action item, business item, motion or question properly before the Common Council. This motion is debatable. This motion, if adopted, expands or adds to the debate and discussion new items related to the main action item, main business item, main motion or main question pursuant to the method described and approved in the motion to introduce a matter related.
Public directory votes. No member of the Common Council shall request, at a meeting of the Common Council, a vote from the general public unless the proposed vote of the general public is so noted by the presiding officer of the meeting as strictly an advisory vote to the Council. Any vote taken by the general public at a meeting of the Common Council shall be considered by the Council only as an advisory vote and shall not be considered as a directory vote.
Rules of parliamentary procedure. The rules of parliamentary practice in Robert's Rules of Order, which is hereby incorporated by reference, shall govern the proceedings of the Council in all cases to which they are applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with these rules or with the laws of the State of Wisconsin.
The following procedures shall be followed at public hearings and may also be followed when citizen input is necessary during regular items of business before the Common Council:
Each person speaking on the matter or on behalf of the proposition shall be limited in time to five minutes.[1]