Any person desiring to address the Council must register and complete the form upon entering the meeting area. Please give the form to the City Clerk prior to the meeting being called to order. public Comments are only allowed during the Public Comment portion of the meeting. When addressing the City Council, the speaker must state his/her name and address.

Each speaker is allowed three minutes to address the City Council.

When addressing the City Council, there is to be no personal address to any individual Council member. All statements are to be made to the Chair who will recognize any Council member who wishes to respond.

The powers and duties of the Mayor and City Council members are contained in state law and City ordinances, resolutions, and regulations. These statutory duties include the following:

• Adopt ordinances, resolutions, policies and regulations for the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of Semmes.
• Establish policies for the effective and efficient delivery of municipal services to the City.
• Establish goals, objectives, and performance measures for the City Government.
• Add, delete, modify, or reduce municipal services and staff due to budget restrictions.
• Create departments, divisions, offices, and citizen advisory committees necessary for the efficient and effective operation of
  the City.
• Exercise oversight over the professional staff, consultants, citizen advisory committees, and all other employees, volunteers, and
  officers appointed or retained by the City.
• Work with citizen advisory committees established by the City Council to formulate recommendations to the City Council on
  policies, projects, and spending allocations. Every member of the
  governing body is expected to take committee assignments and
  attend all committee meetings.

• Participate in community strategic and long-range planning.
• Adopt master plans for water, wastewater, storm drainage, parks, and municipal facilities to guide the City’s future development of infrastructures.
• Approve the municipal boundaries, and all annexations of land into the City.
• Approve all subdivisions, commercial, and industrial site plans. Approve all development plans and agreements with residential, commercial, and industrial developers.
• Adopt a five-year Capital Improvement Plan.
• Adopt the annual City budget.
• Approve expenditure of City funds.
• Promote good relations with federal, state, and other municipal government agencies. The Mayor and City Council will actively work with appropriate officials on inter-jurisdictional issues and regional problems affecting the residents of Semmes.
• Perform other duties as necessary and as established by ordinance, resolution, contract or regulation.

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