Your comments shall be made during the times set aside for that purpose.
Stand or raise a hand to indicate that you wish to speak.
When recognized, state your name and direct your comments and/or questions to any City official in attendance.
Each person wishing to address the City Council and/or attending officials shall be afforded one opportunity of up to three (3) minutes during the frist and last occasion for citizen comments and questions and one opportunity of up to three (3) minutes durin geach public hearing.
Comments made during public hearings shall be relevant to the subject of the public hearings being held.
In addition to the opportunities described above, a citizen may respond to questions posed to them by the Mayor or members of the Council, provided members have been granted the floor to pose such questions.
No speakers may make personal or impertinent attacks upon any officer, employee, City Council member, or other elected Official that is unrelated to how the officer, employee, or City Council member or other Elected Official performs their duties.
No person shall use abusive or threatening language toward any individual when addressing the City Council.
Attendees are permitted to make video and sound recordings of the public meeting. However, video recording devices shall only be permitted in a designated area, and the device shall remain there through the duration of the meeting.
The Mayor shall direct any person who violates this section to be orderly and silent. If a person addressing the Council refuses to become silent when so directed, such person may be deemed by the Mayor to have committed a "breach of the peace" by distrupting and impeding the orderly conduct of the public meeting of the City Council and may be ordered by the Mayor to leave the meeting. If the person refuses to leave as directed, the Mayor may direct any law enforcement officer who is present to escort the violator from the meeting.
