30 - Adoption of Voter-Approved Amendments to the City's Home Rule Charter

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conferred and created by this Charter, by city ordinance or by law. (7) Adopt plats. (8) Adopt and modify the official map of the city. (9) Adopt, modify, and carry out plans proposed by the planning commission for the clearance of slum districts and rehabilitation of blighted areas. (10) Adopt, modify and carry out plans proposed by the planning commission for the replanning, improvement and redevelopment of neighborhoods and for the replanning, reconstruction or redevelopment of any area or district which may have been destroyed in whole or in part by disaster. (11) Regulate, license and fix the charges or fares made by any person owning, operating or controlling any vehicle of any character used for the carrying of passengers for hire or the transportation of freight for hire on the public streets and alleys of the city. (12) Provide for the establishment and designation of fire limits and to prescribe the kind and character of buildings or structures or improvements to be erected therein, and to provide for the erection of fireproof buildings within certain limits, and to provide for the condemnation of dangerous structures or buildings or dilapidated buildings or buildings calculated to increase the fire hazard, and the manner of their removal or destruction. Subsection (2), Ordinance No. 2022-084 enacted 11/14/2022, Prop. B, Ordinance No. 2022-_ enacted 12/12/2022. § 203 Appointment and removal of city manager. The council shall appoint an officer of the city who shall have the title of city manager and who shall have the powers and perform the duties in this Charter provided. No councilman member shall receive such appointment during the term for which he or she shall have been elected, nor within one year after the expiration of his or her term. The salary of the city manager shall be fixed by the city council, and he or she shall hold office at its will. The city council may suspend the city manager if the manager declines to resign at the request of the council, that request being expressed in a resolution approved by a majority vote of the total membership of the council. Such resolution shall set forth the reasons for suspension and proposed removal. A copy of such resolution shall be served immediately upon the city manager, who shall have 15 days in which to reply thereto in writing, and upon request, shall be afforded a public hearing, which shall occur not earlier than 10 days nor later than 15 days after such hearing is requested. At such public hearing, if one is requested, the city manager will be allowed up to 30 minutes to respond to his or her proposed termination. Members of the public will be allowed to speak in support of or in opposition to termination, and may address any aspect of the city manager's performance. After the conclusion of the public hearing, if one is requested, or after 15 days if the manager has not responded to the request to resign, and after full consideration, the city council, by a majority vote of its total membership, shall adopt a final resolution of removal or reinstatement. The city manager shall continue to receive full salary