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Home My Public Portal About01-1226 ` SON) Cq� UNLt�"' CITY OF CARSON, CALIFORNIA ORDINANCE NO. 01-1226 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CARSON CHANGING THE MEETING TIME, ORDER OF BUSINESS, PROTOCOL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS AND AMENDING THE CARSON MUNICIPAL CODE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph A (Regular Meetings) of Section 2403 (Council Meetings) of Chapter 4 (City Offices - Council Chambers - Meetings) of Article II (Administration) of the Carson Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "A. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the City Council shall be held on the first and third Tuesday of each month at the hour of 5:00 p.m. If any such day is on a holiday, then the meeting shall be held on the next succeeding day which is not a holiday. If any such day is a statewide election day or a regular municipal election day, then the meeting shall be held on the next succeeding day or on such other day as determined by the City Council. At the second regular meeting in March of each year, except as otherwise provided by law, the Council shall organize and select a Mayor Pro Tempore." Section 2. Section 2405 (Order of Business) of Chapter 4 (City Offices - Council Chambers- Meetings) of Article II (Administration) of the Carson Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "2405 Order of Business. A. Attendance at Council Meetings and Order of Business. All meetings of the City Council shall be open to the public except as otherwise provided by law. Promptly at the hour set on the day of each regular or special meeting, the members of the Council, and unless excused by the City Council,the City Manager, the City Clerk, and the City Attorney,shall take their assigned stations in the Council Chambers and on the day of each regular meeting,the business of the Council shall be taken up for consideration and disposition in the following order, unless such CITY OF CARSON' C1380\0001\650503.1 Page 1 of 4 ORDINANCE NO.01 -1226 order or category is otherwise ordered by the Mayor with the approval of the Council: 5:00 P.M. Commencement of Regular Meeting - Closed Sessions (a) Call to Order (b) Roll Call (c) Approval of Closed Session Agenda (d) Announcement of Closed Session Items (e) Recess into Closed Session (f) Reconvene to Open Session (g) Report of Closed Session Actions 5:45 P.M. Ceremonial Presentations and Proclamations 6:00 P.M. Commencement of Regular Business Session (a) Flag Salute (b) Invocation (c) Approval of Regular Business Meeting Agenda (d) Approval of Minutes (e) Introductions (f) New Business Consent (g) Demands (h) Special Orders of the Day (Public Hearings) W Unfinished Business (j) New Business Discussion (k) Ordinance Second Reading (1) Oral Communications (1) Audience (2) Staff (3) Council Members (m) Announcement of Unfinished or Continued Closed Session Items (as necessary) (n) Recess to Closed Session (o) Reconvene to Open Session (p) Report of Actions on Unfinished or Continued Closed Session Items (q) Adjournment B. Proclamations and Presentations. Proclamations and resolutions to recognize events or activities of community wide interest will be introduced under the agenda heading of Proclamations. Recognition by the Council through awards, certificates or verbal commendation of activities or programs of community groups or individuals will be made under the agenda heading of Presentations. C. Oral Communications. The oral communications portion of the agenda is the point in the Council meeting where individuals or groups may make brief comments regarding items that are not on the agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Council. Oral communications from the audience will be CITY OF CARSON 01380\0001\650503.1 Page 2 of 4 ORDINANCE NO.01-1226 followed by oral communications from the Council, then by members of the staff. Although individual Council Members may provide brief responses to the oral communications, the Council may not discuss or take any action on matters raised during oral communications except as provided by state law and CIVIC 2404(c)." Section 3. Paragraph C of Section 2410 (Addressing the Council) of Chapter 4 (City Offices - Council Chambers - Meetings) of Article II (Administration) of the Carson Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "C. Public Hearings. When the Presiding Officer opens the publictestimony portion of a public hearing item, interested persons or their authorized representatives may present evidence and address the Council extemporaneously, or by reading protests, petitions, or communications in regard to matters then under consideration, subject at all times to the maintenance of order by the Presiding Officer and compliance with the time limits set forth in CIVIC Section 2412 unless otherwise specified by the Presiding Officer. All public testimony on public hearing items shall be given during the public testimony portion of the public hearing item. After the close of the public testimony portion for the public hearing, no member of the general public shall be entitled to speak or present any other evidence or communications on the item." Section 4. Section 2412 (Manner of Addressing the City Council)of Chapter4(City Offices - Council Chambers - Meetings) of Article II (Administration) of the Carson Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "2412. Manner of Addressing Council. A. Protocol. Each person desiring to address the Council is requested to fill out a speaker card and to give that card to the City Clerk. The use of speaker cards is for the purpose of ensuring that a speaker's name is entered correctly in the minutes of the Council meeting. Speaker cards are to be submitted to the City Clerk prior to the commencement of the meeting but no later than the point in the meeting when the item about which the speaker desires to speak is reached on the agenda and announced by the Presiding Officer. When his or her name has been called by the Presiding Officer, he or she shall step up to the audience podium, state his or her name in an audible tone of voice for the record, and, unless further time is granted by the Council, shall limit his or her comments to three (3) minutes. Except as authorized in paragraph B below, no person shall be permitted to yield additional time to the speaker. All remarks shall be directed to the Council as a body and not to any member thereof or the audience. No person, other than the Council and the person having the floor, shall be permitted to enter into any discussion, either directly or through a member of the Council, without the permission of the Presiding Officer. No question shall be asked a Council Member except through the Presiding Officer. B. Spokesperson for Group of Persons. Whenever any group of persons wishes to address the Council on the same subject matter, it shall be proper for the CITY OF CARSON C1380\0001\650503.1 Page 3 of 4 ORDINANCE NO.01 -1226 Presiding Officer to request that a spokesperson be chosen by the group to address the Council. When a spokesperson is chosen, that spokesperson may be yielded time from up to three additional persons who have turned in speaker cards to the City Clerk, unless a greater or lesser time to speak is designated by the Presiding Officer. In such cases, the spokesperson shall use the additional time to present additional data or argument from the group so as to limit the number of persons required to speak and avoid unnecessary repetition." Section 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance. PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this ;5thday of May 2001. ATTEST: CITY C-LEIRK MAYOR APPROVED AS TO FORM: CITY ATTORNEY STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss. CITY OF CARSON ) I, Helen S. Kawagoe, City Clerk of the City of Carson, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 01-1226, passed first reading on May 1, 2001 was duly and regularly adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 15'h day of May, 2001, and that the same was passed and adopted by the following roll call vote: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Mayor Sweeney, Frank, Calas, Ontal, and Dear NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None City Clerk, City of Car on, Cali lo rnia CITY OF CARSON C 1380\0001\650503.1 Page 4 of 4 ORDINANCE NO.01 -1226