Chapter 2.041
City Council
Sections:
2.04.010 Time and place designated.
2.04.020 Meeting falling on holiday.
2.04.025 Working sessions and committee and special meetings.
2.04.010 Time and place designated.
The city council shall meet on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month commencing at seven p.m. at the council chambers at the city hall, located at the corner of Main Street and Broadway Avenue. (Ord. 1518 §1, 2008: Ord. 861 §1, 1965).
2.04.020 Meeting falling on holiday.
Whenever the second or fourth Tuesday falls on a legal holiday, the city council of the city of Montesano shall meet on the following Wednesday at the time and place as set forth in Section 2.04.010. (Ord. 861 §2, 1965).
2.04.025 Working sessions and committee and special meetings.
(a) The city council, or committees thereof, shall meet on the first and third Tuesday of each month at the hour of seven-thirty p.m. in the council chambers or the meeting rooms of the city hall, as may be designated. These meetings shall be subject to the following conditions:
(1) As to the council, the same shall be work sessions and no final action on any particular item shall be taken.
(2) As to the committees of the city council, to the extent that such committee meetings are required by the Open Meetings Law of the state to be held at such regularly scheduled meetings, then the committees shall so meet; provided, that nothing established in the ordinance codified in this section shall prevent or hinder a committee of the city council from meeting at another time to the extent that such meeting is not subject to the provisions of the Open Meetings Law of the state in relation to scheduling and notice. A committee shall have the right, at meetings held pursuant to the schedule established by this section, to take any and all action which may be authorized under the Open Meetings Law of the state, as it may from time to time exist.
(b) Nothing within this section shall in any way restrict the right of the city council or a committee thereof to call and/or hold special meetings in the manner allowed by the laws of the state as those laws may from time to time exist, or from taking such action or carrying forth such discussions or receiving such information as may be allowed by the laws of the state.
(c) Meetings scheduled pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be subject to cancellation pursuant to direction of the mayor if the meeting is of the entire council, or by the chair of the particular committee involved if it is a committee meeting. Such cancellation is to be carried forth by such manner as will reasonably give notice to the public that no meeting will be held at the time established. (Ord. 1190 §1, 1983).
2.04.040 Powers and duties.
The city council of the city of Montesano shall have such power and authority as may be provided to it by the laws of the state of Washington and
the Constitution of said state, as they may from time to time be modified. These powers shall include, but not be limited to the following:
(2) To define and make specific the functions, powers, duties and authorities of the officers and employees of the city and to modify those functions, powers, duties and authorities as they, from time to time, deem appropriate;
(3) Subject to the vested rights imposed by contract or state law, to fix and establish the level of compensation and working conditions of officers and employees of the city, including, but not limited to, the entrance into contracts relating to such terms and conditions of employment;
(4) To establish and maintain civil service systems, retirement systems, and pension systems, so long as such systems are not in conflict with provisions of RCW Title 35A, or of other appropriate state laws, including but not limited to RCW Chapters 41.08 and 41.12;
(5) To adopt and provide for the enforcement of ordinances of all kinds relating to and regulating municipal affairs, and impose penalties for violation thereof to the extent that such penalties may be imposed under the laws then in existence;
(6) The power to acquire, sell, own, improve, maintain, protect, restore, regulate, use, lease, dispose of, vacate, abandon, or beautify any public way, any and all real property of any type, waterway, structure or any improvement or use of real or personal property within the corporate limits of the city, or without the corporate limits of the city, to the extent allowed by law;
(7) To render service to the citizens of the city in all areas, including, but not limited to, social, cultural, recreational, governmental and corporate areas; to the extent that such services are allowed by law, to acquire, develop, construct, maintain, improve and operate facilities providing utility services, including but not limited to water and sewer services to the extent allowed by appropriate and applicable laws;
(8) To render, operate and supply muncipal services of all types, to the extent allowed by applicable law;
(9) Within the provisions and limitations imposed by the Constitution and the laws of the state of Washington, to impose taxes within its territorial limits for local purposes;
(10) To exercise the power of eminent domain, borrowing of moneys and the granting of franchises in the manner provided by law;
(11) To exercise any and all of these powers, to perform any of the city's legislative functions, including but not limited to purchasing, through the provisions of RCW Chapter 39.34, in relation to intergovernmental cooperation and action;
(12) To accept any gift or grant for any public purpose, and to carry out the conditions related to such gift or grant, so long as such conditions are not in conflict with state or federal law;
(13) To exercise any authority ever given to any class municipality, or to all classes of municipality of the state, before or after the enactment of RCW Title 35A, so long as the authority so provided is exercised in the manner provided by the granting statute and to be exercised in a manner not in conflict with the provisions of RCW Title 35A;
(14) To, by resolution or ordinance, take whatever action is deemed necessary to participate in the programs established pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended, or any other act, providing for aid to the city or its citizens;
(15) To establish the duties to be performed and the procedure to be followed by the city, its agents or employees, in relation to the keeping of council records, establishing of official bonds, protecting and promoting the health and safety and other matters of the city to the extent not inconsistent with the provisions of state law;
(16) To establish the authority, duties and qualifications of all appointive officers, and establish the compensation of such officers. These officers may include, but are not necessarily limited to a city clerk and a city treasurer or a merger thereof, a chief law enforcement officer, a city attorney and a city engineer;
(17) To have and exercise, pursuant to the intent of RCW 35A.11.050, the greatest power of local self-government which is consistent with the Constitution of the state of Washington, and of the laws implementing said Constitution, as they relate to cities operating under RCW Title 35A. (Ord. 1088, 1978).
2.04.050 Compensation.
A council member of the city shall receive a salary of four hundred dollars per month. The mayor shall receive a salary of eight hundred dollars per month. The compensation so established shall be the total salary received per month without regard to the number of meetings required to be attended or actually attended, whether of council, committee, board or otherwise or the amount of time required to be expended in order to adequately fulfill the official duties imposed upon the mayor or council member. (Ord. 1658 §1, 2023; Ord. 1389 §1, 1997: Ord. 1208 §1, 1984).
For statutory provisions regarding meetings, see RCW 35.24.180.