§ 3-12. Power of appointment.  


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  • The Mayor shall make all appointments of municipal personnel with the advice and consent of Council. On the request of the Mayor, the Council shall receive and consider in executive session any nomination for appointment requiring Council's advice and consent. Candidates shall be formally nominated at any regular meeting and may be confirmed or rejected at the same meeting, but in no case later than the next regular meeting. The Council, for any reason it deems appropriate, may return an appointment to the Mayor unapproved. In such cases of disapproval, the Mayor then shall submit an appointee to Council for the position that was the subject of the disapproval and, upon receipt of the appointee, Council may then vote to approve the appointee or disapprove as aforesaid or take no action; however, in cases of disapproval where the Mayor has submitted an appointee as aforesaid, if by the second regularly scheduled Council meeting next following the first meeting wherein the Mayor's appointee was disapproved the Mayor's appointee has not been confirmed by Council, then Council may nominate and approve, by majority vote, an appointee to the position that has been the subject of the disapproval.
Amended 1-20-2004 by Ord. No. 1451