Issue 9: Vermilion charter amendment — council meetings and executive sessions

The question, as printed on the ballot

Shall Article III, Section III-7 titled "Council Meetings" and Article IV, Section IV-4(b) titled "Legislative Powers" be amended to provide Council the right to meet in executive session alone by a two-thirds vote as follows: Article III, Section III-7. Council Meetings. The Council shall hold at least one regular meeting in each calendar month. A majority of the members of the Council shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Council, but a lesser number may adjourn the meeting from time to time and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance. At any meeting at which a quorum is present, any ordinance or resolution may be passed or adopted, or any other action may be taken, by the affirmative vote of four members of the Council unless a larger number be required by the provisions of this Charter. The Clerk of Council shall keep a record of its proceedings in a journal in which the yea or nay vote of each Councilman voting on an ordinance, resolution or other measure may be recorded. All meetings of the Council shall be open to the public and its journal shall be available for public inspection at all reasonable times, except that the Council may meet in a closed executive session only after a majority of the Council determines, by a roll call vote, to hold such a session. The motion and vote to hold an executive session shall state one or more of the specific purposes enumerated in the Ohio Revised Code. The Mayor is entitled to participate in executive sessions unless excluded by a 2/3 vote of council. Article IV, Section IV-4(b). Legislative Powers (b) Legislative Powers. The Mayor shall attend Council meetings but shall have no vote therin. He shall have the right to recommend and introduce legislation and to take part in the discussion of all matters coming before Council. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Council shall be permitted to exclude the Mayor from Executive Sessions of Council in accordance with Article III, Section III-7. Every ordinance or resolution adopted by Council shall be signed by the President of Council or other presiding officer, attested by the Clerk of Council and presented promptly to the Mayor for consideration before it goes into effect. If the Mayor approves such ordinance or resolution, he shall sign and return it to the Clerk of Council within ten days after its adoption by Council, but if he does not approve it, he shall return it to Council within said ten days with his written objections by delivery to the Clerk of Council, which objections shall be entered in full on the journal of the Council. The Mayor may approve or disapprove the whole or any item of an ordinance or resolution appropriating money, but otherwise his approval or disapproval shall be addressed to the entire ordinance or resolution. If he does not return an ordinance or resolution within said ten day period, it shall take effect in the same manner as if he had signed it. When the Mayor has disapproved an ordinance or resolution, or a part or item thereof as herein provided, the Council shall, not later than its next regular meeting, proceed to reconsider it, and if upon reconsideration the ordinance or resolution or part or item thereof be approved by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of Council, it shall then take effect as if it had received the approval of the Mayor. Shall Article III, Section III-7 titled "Council Meetings" and Article IV, Section IV-4(b) titled "Legislative Powers" be amended to provide Council the right to meet in executive session alone by a two-thirds vote?