A CHARTER ORDINANCE EXEMPTING THE CITY OF BELLE PLAINE FROM THE APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF K.S.A. 15-106 AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT PERTAINING TO THE DEFINITION OF A QUORUM TO DO CITY BUSINESS.

Section 1. The City of Belle Plaine, a city of the third class, by virtue of the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas hereby elects to exempt itself from and make inapplicable to it the applicable provisions of K.S.A. 15-106, which are not uniformly applicable to all cities. The legislature having made special provisions applying to certain classes of the cities in said enactment.

Section 2. In lieu of the applicable provisions of K.S.A. 15-106, the governing body of the City of Belle Plaine hereby adopts the following provisions:

       “Regular meetings of the council shall be held at such times, not less than once each month, as shall be prescribed by ordinance. Special meetings may be called by the mayor or acting mayor, on written request of a majority of a quorum of the council, specifying the object and purpose of such meeting, which request shall be read at the meeting and entered at length on the journal. In all cases, it shall require a simple majority of the council-members elect to constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as the council, by ordinance, may have previously prescribed. Physically absent council-members may attend a meeting by telephone or other electronic means if the council member can hear and respond to the comments of those persons commenting on any item subject to debate which said absent council member shall vote on at a lawfully called meeting.”

Section 3. Charter Ordinance No. 12(2) is hereby repealed.

(04-06-2017)