BEGINNING
OF CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
This agenda has been
prepared to provide for the orderly progression of City business. Detailed
staff reports on specific items are posted in the hallway for public viewing.
The City Council wants to hear your comments, however, to run the meeting
efficiently, please observe the following rules when you participate in
the meeting.
Please try to submit
your REQUEST TO ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL form to the City Clerk
prior to the start of the meeting. You will be called at the appropriate
time to make your remarks.
For the sake of efficiency,
the City Council agenda is divided into several sections:
Consent Calendar:
This section consists of routine items which, unless a request has been
received from the public, council or staff to remove a particular item
for discussion, are enacted by one motion of the City Council. If you
wish to speak to any Consent Calendar item(s) you will be limited to three
minutes.
Public Hearings:
This section is devoted to noticed hearings. Although the normal time
limit is three minutes for each speaker, the Mayor may grant additional
time to a representative speaking for an entire group; however, this should
not discourage anyone from addressing the City Council individually.
Regular Business:
This section contains items of general business and you will be allowed
three minutes to speak on any item.
Public Comments:
This part of the agenda is reserved for making comments on matters which
are NOT on the agenda. If you have submitted a request to speak,
you will be called by the City Clerk at the appropriate time and you may
speak for up to three minutes. Please limit your comments to matters within
the jurisdiction of the City Council. Due to State law, no action can
be taken on matters brought up under Public Comments. If action by the
City Council is necessary, the matter may be placed on a future agenda
or referred to staff, as determined by Council.
Please make your remarks
at the lectern microphone and direct your comments to the City Council
and not to the staff or the public.
Conduct at the
Council Meeting: The City Council has adopted a set of rules for conduct
during City Council meetings. The following is an excerpt from those adopted
Rules of Procedure:
Section 6.3 The Mayor
shall order removed from the Council Chambers any person(s) who commits
the following acts at a regular or special meeting of the City Council:
1. Disorderly, contemptuous
or insolent behavior toward the Council or any member thereof, tending
to interrupt the due and orderly course of said meeting.
2. A breach of the
peace, boisterous conduct or violent disturbance, tending to interrupt
the due and orderly course of said meeting.
3. Disobedience of
any lawful order of the Mayor which shall include an order to be seated
or to refrain from addressing the Council.
4. Any other unlawful
interference with the due and orderly course of the meeting.
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