VILLAGE COUNCIL

VILLAGE OF NASHVILLE

BARRY COUNTY, MICHIGAN

ORDINANCE NO. 3-22-2007-B

Council Member Kenyon, supported by Council Member Coll, moved the adoption of the following ordinance:

PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE PAY ORDINANCE

THE VILLAGE OF NASHVILLE ORDAINS:

SECTION 1   TITLE

This ordinance shall be known and cited as the “President/Trustee Pay Ordinance”

SECTION 2   PURPOSE AND SCOPE

A. The purpose of this ordinance is to set the pay for the village president and trustees for the Village of Nashville in accordance with Chapter IV, Section 21 of Act No. 3 of the Public Acts of 1895, as amended. 

SECTION 3   PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE PAY REGULATIONS

A. The President of the Village of Nashville shall receive $75.00 per meeting, and the Trustees of the Village of Nashville shall receive $45.00 per meeting for each regular meeting of the village council attended by them during their term of office.

B. The pay for each council member assigned to a committee or board will be at the rate of $10 for each committee or board meeting attended.   Payment will be made for not more than one scheduled meeting per month for each committee or board. 

($10 per committee/board meeting - 1 meeting per month)

C. The president or any trustee may waive all or a portion or his/her compensation for the performance of the duties of their office by filing a written notice to this effect with the clerk.  The notice must state the waiver period to be applied.  The clerk may rely on any such notice received in computing payments due to the president or any trustee. 

D. The president and trustees will be paid on a quarterly basis with quarters ending March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31 of each year.

SECTION 4   SEVERABILITY

The provisions of this Ordinance are declared to be severable and if any clause, sentence, word, section or provision is declared void or unenforceable for any reason by any court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any portion of this Ordinance other than the part or portion thereof.

SECTION 5   REPEAL

Village of Nashville Ordinance No. 63 is hereby repealed in its entirety as of the effective date of this Ordinance.  Additionally, all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.

SECTION 6   EFFECTIVE DATE

This ordinance shall take effect upon its publication.

Aye: Harwood, Kenyon, Coll, J Dunham, F Dunham

Nay: none

Absent: Shotts, Holden

Ordinance No. 3-22-2007-B Adopted.

Frank Dunham, President

Cathy Lentz, Clerk