Hallsville Board of Aldermen Meetings and Conduct ordinance (§ 110.200)

A. Conflicts Of Interest. No member of the Board of Aldermen shall be permitted to vote for or against any ordinance appropriating money or for the allowance of any account or claim or for the award or approval of any contract in which such member is directly or indirectly interested. Any ordinance, resolution or motion having passed by the vote of such interested members be deemed illegal and no effect.

B. Resignations. Resignations of Aldermen shall be in writing and shall be filed with the Mayor.

C. Sergeant At Arms. The Chief of Police shall be ex officio sergeant at arms of the Board of Aldermen and shall attend its meetings and execute all its orders. He/she shall keep the Board Chamber in order. Sergeant at arms shall be allowed to carry weapons.

D. All roll call votes of "yeas" and "nays" shall be taken and recorded on the journal of proceedings for all ordinances or propositions which create any liability against or obligation on the part of the City or for the expenditure or appropriation of its money and in all other instances where request therefor is made by any member of the Board.

E. No vote or action of the Board shall be rescinded at any special meeting unless there be present at such meetings as many members of the Board as were present when such vote or action was taken.

F. All meetings of the Board shall be open to the public, except as to portions of such meetings from which the Board may, by majority vote of the members present and voting, exclude the public as permitted under the Sunshine Act (Section 610.010 et seq., RSMo.), as amended.

G. Any person in attendance at an executive session is honor-bound not to violate the confidentiality of the discussion taking place during the session, except as to any portions thereof which may clearly transgress the Sunshine Act (Section 610.010 et seq., RSMo.).

H. The general public shall be afforded an opportunity to address the Board during the order of business set aside for public forum. Any person desiring to address the Board shall be required to identify himself/herself, state his/her home address or place of business and to address his/her remarks to the Mayor. Aldermen desiring further information or comment from the speaker from any other person in the audience may request the same. Protracted, repetitive, irrelevant or abusive remarks from the public may be closed off at any time by direction of the Mayor or Board of Aldermen.

I. No new motion or proposition shall be admitted under color of an amendment or as a substitute for the pending motion or proposition, which does not relate to the subject matter of the original motion or proposition.

J. The Chairman of the various boards, commissions and advisory committees established by the statutes or ordinance may, upon the approval of a majority of the Board of Aldermen, render an oral report. Reports may be received in written form and made part of the record.

K. A majority of the members elected to the Board of Aldermen shall constitute a quorum to do business, but any two (2) members, including the Mayor, may have a roll call of the Board, send for and compel the attendance of absent members.