7-3-1218. Meetings of commission.
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7-3-1218 . Meetings of commission.
(a)Except as provided in subsection (1)(b), at 2 p.m. on the first Monday in January following a general municipal election, the commission shall meet at the courthouse in the consolidated municipality and the newly elected members shall assume the duties of office.
(b)The first meeting of the commission after the election at which the first members of the commission are elected must be held at 2 p.m. on the first day of the third month following the special election, and at this meeting the members of the commission shall determine by lot the members whose terms will expire on the first Monday in January in the first year following their election and the members whose terms will expire on the first Monday in January in the third year following their election.
(2)Thereafter the commission shall meet as prescribed by ordinance or resolution, but not less frequently than once in each month. Special meetings must be called by the clerk of the commission on written request of the president, the manager, or a majority of the members of the commission. A notice of a special meeting must state the subject to be considered at the meeting, and no other subject may be considered at the special meeting.
(3)All meetings of the commission and of committees of the commission must be open to the public, and the rules of the commission must provide that citizens of the municipality must have a reasonable opportunity to be heard at any meeting in regard to any matter considered at the meeting.