A CHARTER ORDINANCE REESTABLISHING THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT AND THE NUMBER OF CITY COUNCIL POSITIONS WITHIN THE CITY OF ANDOVER, KANSAS.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF ANDOVER, KANSAS, AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1: From and after the effective date of this Ordinance the Governing Body of the City of Andover, Kansas, shall consist of a Mayor and six (6) Council Members, all of whom shall be elected by the City at Large. No person shall be eligible for the office of Mayor or Council Member who is not at the time of election an actual resident of the City of Andover, Kansas.

SECTION 2. The Mayor and each member of the City Council shall serve for a term of four (4) years with three (3) Council members to be elected during the regular City Election to be held on the first Tuesday in April of 2001 and the Mayor and three (3) Council members to be elected thereafter at the Regular City Election to be held on the first Tuesday in April of 2003. The vacancy necessarily created upon the effective date of this Ordinance, as well as any vacancy occurring thereafter, shall be filled by appointment made by the Mayor but only upon the approval of such appointment by the Governing Body.

SECTION 3. The city of Andover, Kansas, by virtue of the power vested in it by Article 12, §5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to make inapplicable to it and exempts itself from those provisions within K.S.A. 14-101, et seq., and K.S.A. 14-201, et seq., the extent that the provisions contained therein are inconsistent with the foregoing. Additionally, prior Charter Ordinance No. 11 shall be repealed upon the effective date of this Ordinance to the extent that the provisions contained therein are inconsistent with the foregoing. In exempting itself, the City finds that the statutory provisions referenced above are applicable to cities of the second class, but not uniformly applicable to all cities and the City hereby adopts substitute and/or additional provisions on the same subject as provided for herein.

(2-24-2000; Repealed by C.O. No. 23)