Speaking at a Council Meeting Speaking at a Council Meeting

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

Citizens and other visitors are welcome to attend all public meetings of the City Council and will be admitted to the City Council chambers or other rooms in which the City Council is meeting up to the fire safety capacity of the room.

• Everyone attending the meeting will refrain from private conversations while the City Council is in session.
• Presentations by citizens must be confined to any City-related issue.
• Extended discussion or debates will not be allowed and are limited to (3) minutes; the City Council will listen but will not usually comment on the issue.
• Applicants in any zoning case are allowed up to (10) minutes to make their presentation.
• The City Council requires signup by anyone wishing to address the council at a meeting or hearing on agenda items or non-agenda items. The signup form must be completed in full.
• Unauthorized remarks from the audience, stamping feet, whistles, yells, and similar demonstrations shall not be permitted by the presiding officer.
• No signs, posters, or placards will be allowed at City Council meetings. Any such signage shall be removed by any member of law enforcement present.
• The name and respective position of such person(s) shall be read into the record.
• A speaker who has requested to address the Council on multiple voting items must speak on all items at the time the first item for which the speaker is registered is considered by the Council. Speakers will have a maximum of three (3) minutes to speak, regardless of the number of items they wish to address.
• Individuals should be physically present to address the city council. Comments may be sent to council members and requested to be read at the council meeting.
• Citizens shall observe the same rules of propriety, decorum, and conduct as the City Council.
• AII citizens shall treat everyone present with dignity and respect.
• Items not on the agenda may be brought before the council during the citizen's comments period set aside for this purpose on all meeting agendas.
• Citizens may address the city council on any subject during this period unless the issue they wish to discuss is already on that meeting's agenda. If the citizen is reading from a prepared document, the document or a copy of the document will be given to the city secretary for minutes.