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,, RULF~ OF ORDER GOVERNING TEiT COZA`tCII. OF ~iE CITY OF NORZEi OI~STEtJ The follo~ring rules of order shall govern the procedure of the city council and the conduct of it$ members. SECTION I. MEETINGS: PLACE, TIME OF CONPENING, Q~TORUM, ORDER OF BUSIl~S3 Rule 1. Meetings -Place. X11 meetings oP the council shall be held in the council chamber in the City Bell, unless otherwise ordered by the a©uacil. ~... Rule 2. Meetings -Public. b11 meetings of the council of the City oY North Olmsted shall b® public, and upon request of any citizen desiring to b® heard on any matter, then under consideration by the council, the council may, on motion, resolve itself into a cen~ittee of the whole and 'near ouch citizen at such time and Yor such period as council may determine. Persons desiring to be heard by any comamittee of council on any matter then under consideration. may by consent oY such committee be given an opportunity to be heard thereon. 111.1 minutes and record of the council shall be open to the public at all reasonable times. Rule 3. Regular Meetings. ~Yter the council has been organized regular meetings of the council shall be held in the council chamber the first Tuesday and third Tuesday of each month at 8:00 o'clock p. m., unless otherwise ordered by motion, resolution or ordinanc®. Whenever the regular meeting falls on a legal holiday or a special election day or the day preceding a legal holiday or primary or other election day, the meeting shall be held on a day to be fixed by the council. Rule 4. Summer Schedule. During the months oY July and ~.ugust the council shall be on summer schedule and shall meet at such times as shall be set forth in the resolution of council establishing such schedule. Rul® 5. Special Meetings. Special meetings may be called at any time by the mayor, the president o f council, o r any tr3ree members upon at least twelve (12 ) hours written notice to each members of the council, served personally on each member or left at his usual place of residence; provided, however, that no such notice need be served on any councilman present at a meeting of council at which the president of council may give oral notice of the time and purpose of a special meeting. Ast„q such notice shall state the sub jects to be considered at the meeting, and no other subjects shall be there considered. Rule 6. quorum. ti majority of all the members elected to council shall constitute a quorum to do business. Rule 7. Order of ?3usiness. The business of all regular meetings of the council shall be transacted in the following order, unless the council by atwo-thirds vote shall suspend the rules and change the order: 1. Roll call of members. 2. Disposal of the journal oP the preceding meeting. 3. rZeports and eo~mmnunications from the me~yor. 4. Reports and communications from departments, commissions and other public c~fficera. ~ 5. Other communications, petitions and memorials. 6. Reports of standing committees. 7. Reports of special committees. 8. Introduction of ordinances s¢id resolutions. 9. Second reading of ordinances and resolutions. 10. Third readix~ of ordinances and resolutions. 11. Reading and passage of emergency ordinances and resolutions. 12. Miscellaneous business. 13. Report of clerk with reference to absences of members. 14. .i~d~ournment. 'T'he presiding officer may at any time by atwo-thirds vote of all the members elected to council permit a member to introduce an ordinance, resolution or motion out of the regular order.