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To; Mayor and Council <br />1997 <br />From: Councilmember Deirdre Bennett IJ' <br />c'rYcc�ToFLcc <br />Avcs°s N <br />Date. March 26, 1997 <br />Subject: Manuel of Procedures <br />I would like to suggest that the City Council set %r discussion at a regular Council <br />meeting the following items: <br />Separate closed session meetings. When we established the earlier meeting time, it was <br />With the intent to hold Closed Session prior to our regular <br />negatively' meeting so that we would not <br />impact Our residents. If that is discussed tonight and. proposed I would like to <br />go down as supporting this change. <br />Our goal, if you will remember, was to holdclosed session from bpm until <br />to 7pm, stoppinggiashotak before we began our regular meeting. We need to formally adoptthisPe yrbegin <br />implementing it if that is still'the desire of this body to set a separate <br />closed session- <br />Policy Workshops. I've spoken to several of you individually about this concept, if it is <br />the will of this body I would like to ask that we <br />workshops. These workshops would give us the flendize formal establishment of separate <br />issues in a forum without negatively opportunity of to fully discuss items and <br />g Y impacting the length of to <br />regular Council <br />meetings_ The goal would be to set these on a strict time schedule, with no vote being <br />taken. These would be study sessions that could give residents and Councilmembers an <br />opPoAmity to bring items of interest to the City for full discussion and debate prior to a <br />regular meeting. This is currently being done in several other City's who are .finding that <br />it is a successful tool to decrease the length of their regular meetings, <br />i <br />