The council shall provide for the time and place of its regular meetings, and adopt rules and regulations for the government of its members and proceedings. It shall hold at least one regular meeting each month. Special meetings of the council may be called by the mayor upon his own motion or upon the petition of two members of the council.
The mayor shall be chairman of the council and shall preside over its deliberations, shall have authority to preserve order, enforce the rules of the council, and determine the order of business subject to the rules of the council.
Except as this chapter otherwise provides, the concurrences of a majority of those present shall be required to determine any matter before the Council, provided however that a majority of the Council shall be required to pass any resolution or any ordinance. In case of a tie vote on any matter before the council, the mayor shall cast the deciding vote.
At its first meeting after this charter takes effect and thereafter at its first meeting of each odd numbered year, the council by ballot shall elect a president from its membership. In the mayor's absence from a council meeting, the council president shall preside over it. Whenever the mayor is unable, on account of absence, illness, or other cause, to perform the functions of his office, the president of the council shall act as mayor.
Five members of the council shall constitute a quorum to do business. The mayor shall be deemed a councilman for the purpose of constituting a quorum. The council shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and on the call of one member shall cause the yeas and nays to be taken and entered in the journal upon any question before it except a motion to adjourn. The proceedings of the council shall be public.