2014 Agenda Cover Sheet
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.
REQUEST TO ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL
Please try to submit your form to the City Clerk prior
to the start of the item. You will be called at the appropriate time to make your remarks. The Mayor’s
instructions to the audience will vary and will depend on the issue being discussed, but will generally
follow these guidelines:
Participants must speak from the podium using the lectern microphone;
Comments are to be directed to the City Council and not to the staff or the public;
The normal time limit for each speaker is three minutes;
Repetition should be avoided; and
Reading a submission that has been copied or contained in the agenda will be discouraged.
Public Comments:
For the sake of efficiency, the City Council agenda is divided into sections: 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. If action by the Council is necessary, the matter may be placed on
Consent Calendar:
a future agenda or referred to staff, as determined by Council. 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
Public Hearings:
speak to any Consent Calendar item(s) you will be limited to three minutes. This
section is devoted to noticed hearings. Applicants and/or appellants are allowed ten minutes to
address Council and a three minute rebuttal, if requested. Although the normal time limit for all other
speakers is three minutes, 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
Regular Business:
individually. This section contains items of general business and you will be
City Council Oral Reports:
allowed three minutes to speak on any item. This section is designated
for oral reports from Council Members to report on their Council assignments.
Continuation of Meeting:
The City Council will adjourn its meetings on or before 11:00 p.m. and will
not consider new business items after 10:15 p.m., unless the majority of the Council Members who
are present affirmatively vote either to extend the meeting after 11:00 p.m. or to consider new
business after 10:15 p.m. If the meeting ends before all of the items listed on the agenda are
completed, any unfinished business will be continued to the next evening at a location to be
determined.
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 the adopted Rules of Procedure:
Section 6.3:
The Mayor shall order removed from the Council Chambers any person(s) who commit
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 from the audience.
4. Any other unlawful interference with the due and orderly course of the meeting.
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