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Council adopts Ordinance 2025-01 after debate over invocation and stipend clause
Summary
At a Jan. 3, 2025 special meeting the council adopted Ordinance 2025-01, a procedural ordinance about meeting times and invocation language. Council members debated removing the invocation and a 50% stipend clause before votes across three readings and a final adoption.
The council adopted Ordinance 2025-01 at a Jan. 3, 2025 special meeting after brief debate over removing an invocation provision and language about a 50% stipend.
At the start of discussion Council Member Nancy Jo Pucci said the ordinance should remove the invocation and "we should use only Section 1 Points A and B," and she later said the change "could have been done at [a] regular meeting." Attorney King advised that the proposed ordinance would override the prior ordinance on the same subject. Councilman Randall Bolen objected to a "50% stipend" clause and asked that "section 5 points 3 and 4" be omitted; Councilman Kevin Hutchison said the council needed to "be transparent." Those statements are reflected in the meeting transcript.
Councilman Kevin Hutchison moved to "keep Ordinance 2025-01 as written," and Councilman Russell Meinking seconded. Mayor Bill Stahlman read the ordinance aloud. Hutchison then moved to suspend the rules to allow consecutive readings; Meinking seconded that motion.
The transcript records roll-call votes during successive readings with the following votes recorded in the minutes: Kevin Hutchison — yes; Nancy Jo Pucci — yes; Russell Meinking — yes; Daryl Lindman — recorded as no during the readings; Randall Bolen — yes; Michael Howell — yes. The transcript then records "Ordinance 2025-01 adopted" and later records an adjournment vote announced as "Ayes 6, Nayes 0." The meeting record contains this inconsistency between the per-member readings (which show one recorded "no" by Council member Lindman) and the final "Ayes 6, Nayes 0" adjournment tally. The minutes do not resolve the discrepancy; the ordinance was recorded as adopted.
No financial figures beyond the referenced "50% stipend" language were explained in the transcript, and no amendments to the ordinance text were recorded on the floor. The meeting concluded after a motion to adjourn from Council Member Pucci, seconded by Councilman Meinking; the clerk recorded the vote totals as noted above.
The council did not specify in the transcript whether the ordinance will take effect immediately or on a later date, nor did it announce any implementation steps at the meeting.
The transcript excerpts used for this article are limited to the January 3 special meeting minutes and the council's verbal record of motions and votes.
