To facilitate the transaction of its business, the City Council
has established a meeting format and guidelines for citizen participation.
These help ensure that everyone who wishes to speak can do so, and
that the Council can benefit from hearing from as many people as
possible in the shortest time. From time to time, it may be in the
public interest to change the format and guidelines, and the Council
can do so at its discretion without prior notice.
The Council generally conducts meetings in the following order:
Ceremonial matters
Public hearings
Consent agenda
Regular agenda
New business
Matters generally are considered by the council in the order listed
on the agenda. Matters on the consent agenda are routine and adopted
by one motion without separate discussion. However, items can be
removed from the consent agenda upon request by a citizen or a member
of the council. Regular agenda items are taken up individually.
The agenda is for the convenience of the public and the council
and can be altered by council at any time without prior notice when
council considers it in the public interest to do so.
