13-2536 Amending City Commission Meeting & Agenda Policies

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spectators. Public input and participation is encouraged during the Citizens' Comments portion of the agenda. b. While the Commission is in session, those in attendance shall not, by conversation or otherwise, delay or interrupt the proceedings, or the peace of the Commission and shall obey all orders of the Commission or the Mayor. The Mayor shall preserve strict order and decorum at all meetings. c. The purpose of the City Commission public meeting is to discuss official City business and proper decorum must be displayed by all in attendance. Consequently, during the Commission meeting, the City Commission shall not permit a personally abusive attack upon any person during debate or public discussion. Nothing herein is intended to limit or restrain negative, positive or neutral comment about the manner in which an individual employee, officer, or Commission Member carries out his or her duties in public office or employment. d. Conduct contrary to the normal presentation of business during a Commission meeting which disturbs or interrupts the orderly process of the proceeding is a disturbance. No speaker shall make any slanderous or profane remark which disturbs, disrupts or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of any Commission meeting. No person in the audience at a Commission meeting shall engage in disorderly conduct, including the utterance of threatening or abusive language, whistling or stomping of feet, applause or any other act which disturbs, disrupts, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of any Commission meeting or any speaker's presentation. e. Any person who engages in disruptive conduct which impedes the orderly conduct of any Commission meeting shall, at the discretion of the Mayor or a majority of the Commission, be barred from speaking further to that item. f. The rules of decorum shall be enforced in the following manner: 1. Warning. The Mayor shall request that a person who is breaching the rules of decorum be orderly and silent. 2. If, after receiving a warning from the Mayor, a person persists in disturbing the meeting, the Mayor shall order him/her to leave the Commission meeting. 3. If such person does not remove him or herself, the Mayor may request the City Manager to order any law enforcement officer who is on duty to remove that person from the Commission Chambers. 6. Citizens' Comments. a. All remarks shall be addressed to the Commission as a body and not to any one member thereof. No person, other than the Commission and the person having the floor, shall be permitted to enter into any debate or discussion, either directly or Adopted via Resolution 13 -2536 on 9/23/13