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Section 25.  General Elections.  A general municipal election shall be held biennially in the City of Corvallis at the same time that the general biennial election for State and county officers is held in the State of Oregon, and at each general election the successors shall be elected for all elective offices whose terms of office expire prior to the next biennial election.

[As amended by general election November 7, 2006 (section renumbered).]

Section 22.  Mayor.  The Mayor shall appoint the committees provided under the rules of the Council. The Mayor shall sign all approved records of proceedings of the Council.

Section 15.  Meetings.  The Council shall hold a regular meeting at least once each month at a time and place in the City which it designates and shall adopt rules for the government of its members and proceedings.  The Mayor upon their own motion may, or at the request of three members of the Council shall, by giving lawful notice, call a special meeting of the Council for a time not earlier than 24 hours nor later than 72 hours after the notice is given.  In case of an actual emergency, a meeting may be held upon such notice as is appropriate under the circumstances, with

            Section 7.  Where Powers Vested.  Except as this Charter provides otherwise, all powers of the City shall be vested in the Council.

[As amended by general election November 7, 2006 (section renumbered).]

Section 3.  Powers of the City.  The City shall have all the rights, powers, privileges, and immunities which the constitutions, statutes, and common law of the United States and of this State expressly or impliedly grant or allow municipalities, including those rights, powers, privileges, and immunities which a City can exercise upon specifically accepting them or upon being granted the power to exercise them by the people of the City or the legislature of the State, as fully as though this Charter expressly stated each of those rights, powers, privileges, and immunities a

            Section 1.  Title of Enactment.  This enactment may be referred to as the Corvallis Charter of 2021, an amendment of the 2017 Charter.

[As amended by special election November 2, 2021]

            Section 2.  Name of City.  The City of Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, shall continue to be a municipal corporation, with the name "City of Corvallis."

At their February 16, 2016 meeting, the City Council approved directly placing on the November 8, 2016 ballot an advisory question concerning publicly funded universal health care for Oregon.  The Advisory Question passed according to results provided on Benton County Elections website.  More information about the Advisory Question is provided below.

The City Attorney worked with Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates to draft a ballot title for Council's review, and at their July 5, 2016 meeting, the Council approved the following Ballot Title.

On July 18, 2016, the City Council approved forwarding the Lawndale Annexation to the voters for the November 2016 ballot.  According to results provided by Benton County Elections, the annexation passed.  More information is provided below.

The following ballot title was approved by the City Council at its August 1, 2016 meeting:

BALLOT TITLE

CAPTION: 
2-99 Proposed Annexation of the Lawndale site 

QUESTION: 
Shall the 2.41-acre Lawndale Annexation site be annexed?