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ORDINANCE NO. 2025-01-01
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING RULES OF PROCEDURES FOR THE TRANSACTION
OF BUSINESS OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF BATESVILLE,ARKANSAS
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BATESVILLE,
ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. The Batesville City Council shall meet at 5:30 p.m. at the Batesville Municipal
Building on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month for its regular scheduled meeting.
SECTION 2. Special meetings of the City Council of the City of Batesville,Arkansas may be
held upon the call of the Mayor,whenever in his opinion it shall be necessary, or by three (3)
members of the Council by giving notice in writing which notice shall be served personally or
through U.S. mail or email to all members of the Council,which notice shall state the date and
time of the meeting and purpose thereof.
SECTION 3. All meeting of the City Council of the City of Batesville, Arkansas, shall be
public meetings. Notice of the time,place and date of all special meetings shall be given by
phone or email to representatives of the newspapers and radio stations located in Batesville,
Arkansas,which have requested to be notified at least two (2)hours before the special meeting
takes place.
SECTION 4. At all meetings of the Council the following shall be the order of business unless
the Council by a majority vote shall order otherwise.
1. Call to order
2. Invocation
3. Roll call by City Clerk
4. Approval of minutes
5. Approval of agenda
6. Comments from Citizens
7. Unfinished Business
8. New business
9. Mayor Comments
10. Liaison Reports
11. Council Comments (by roll call)
12. Adjournment
SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall keep a journal of its proceedings in the
manner as other legislative bodies. The yeas and nays shall be taken and entered upon the
journal on any by-law,motion, ordinance or resolution.
SECTION 6. Procedural rules:
A. All proposed ordinances or resolutions may be offered to the City
Council by one of its members or Mayor.
B. The Batesville City Council may,by a two-thirds vote of the Council,
waive the readings of a proposed resolution or ordinance in its entirety,
provided, however,that the proposed resolution or ordinance be fully
and distinctly explained.
C. That the City Council shall not pass or consider at the next regular
meeting any resolution, ordinance,petition, contract, lease,
appointment or any other matters, filed with the City Clerk after 12:00
Noon, on Tuesday,preceding the meeting. This provision may be
waived by a two-thirds vote of the entire Council.
D. Items placed on an agenda shall be considered in the order in which
they are placed on the agenda unless two-thirds of the City Council
present shall vote to consider an item elsewhere.
E. Parliamentary procedure provides for a more efficient and effective
procedure for a City Council and has long been accepted as a standard
authority for municipalities in conducting council meetings and shall
be used as provided in the Arkansas Municipal League Procedural
Rules booklet.
F. A citizen wishing to address the City Council on a particular issue
either under order of business No. 6, comments from citizens, order
No. 7,unfinished business, or order No. 8, new business, shall have
the right to do so not to exceed three (3)minutes in length. The Mayor
shall recognize any citizen wishing to address the Council pursuant to
this section. The City Clerk shall keep the citizen's time and shall
notify the Mayor when the citizen's time has expired.
SECTION 7. Any person who shall disrupt or interfere with a meeting of the
Council or creates a disturbance in such meeting may be charged with such offense, and if
convicted, shall be punished in accordance with the laws of the state.
SECTION 8. The City Council may at any regular or special meeting, revise or modify these
rules or adopt new rules by a majority vote of the full Council.
SECTION 9. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 10. If any provision of this ordinance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect
other provisions of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision, and to
this end the provisions of the ordinance are declared to be severable.
Adopted this 2 1'day of January, 2025.
Rick u ayor
Attest:
C
ssica Davis, City Clerk