2003 CC/RDA/CUA ADJ REG MTNG ADG JULY 22

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PROCEDURES FOR ADDRESSING CITY COUNCIL For the Official Record, it is requested that you obtain a card from the City Clerk and complete it by noting a specific item number on the Agenda, if applicable, or you can identify the subject that you wish to address under the Public Comment portion of the Agenda. The City Council encourages public input on all City issues within the Rules of Decorum: DECORUM AND ORDER To help conduct the business of the City Council in an orderly fashion, the City Council has adopted rules pertaining to Decorum and Order. The City Council will strictly enforce these rules in order to allow full expression of ideas and o inions bv citizens staff or legal counsel. The rules are summarized below: Unauthorized remarks from the audience, stamping of feet, whistling, clapping, yelling, and similar demonstrations shall NOT be permitted by the Presiding Officer. Any disrupting demonstrations shall be cause for the Chief of Police upon the Mayor's request to clear all people from the Council Chambers or to remove individual offenders upon direction of the Presiding Officer. Any person who verbally attacks other individuals, groups, or City Officials, or otherwise becomes boisterous while addressing the Council, or while attending the Council Meeting, may be ruled out of order by the Presiding Officer and may be asked to leave the meeting if such behavior is deemed to be disruptive to the orderly conduct of the meeting. If someone begins to make impertinent or slanderous remarks, the Presiding Officer (or the City Manager or City Attorney at the direction of the Presiding Officer) may request that the person follow the Council Rules of civil conduct. NOTICE TO PUBLIC Staff reports or other written documentation relating to each item refereed to, on the Agenda, are on file in the Office of the City Clerk and are available for public inspection. Any person having questions concerning any item on the Agenda may call the City Clerk at 370-5032; to make inquiry concerning the nature of the item described on the Agenda. The City Clerk shall direct inquiries to the appropriate office. All matters listed under CONSENT CALENDAR are considered by the City Council to be routine and will all be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. There will be no separate discussion of these items prior to the time the City Council votes on the motion to adopt unless Members of the Council, Staff or the Public request specific items be discussed and/or removed from the CONSENT CALENDAR for separate action. In compliance with the American with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in a City Meeting, please contact the City Clerk's Office at 909-370-5135. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting. C94 Ramon 9fernandez C9f WichardA. DeLalpsa C911 Xelly Y. Chastain Cif JTelen A. Ramos C% Sarah S. Zamora Chi ,john 0. 9vitchefl Mayor Deirdre If Bennett