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portion of Agenda. The City Council encourages public input on all City issues within the Rules of Decorum as follows: 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 opinion by citizens, Staff or Legal Counsel. The rules are summarized below: Unauthorized remarks from the audience, stamping of feet, whistles, clapping, yells, and similar demonstrations shall not be permitted by the Presiding Officer. Any disrupting demonstrations shall be cause for the Chief of Police to clear the Council Chambers or to remove individual offenders upon direction from the Presiding Officer. Any person who verbally attacks other individuals, groups, or City officials, or otherwise becomes boisterous while address- ing the Council, or while attending the Council Meeting, shall be ruled out of order by the Presiding Officer. If someone begins to make impertinent or slanderous remarks, the Presid- ing Officer (or the City Manager or City Attorney at the direc- tion of the Presiding Officer) will instruct the person to follow the Council rules. If the person does not cease, the Presiding Officer will instruct the Chief of Police to remove the person from the Council Chambers and bar him/her from fur- ther audience before the Council. 4