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With Comments of Craig Klausing 2 Roseville City Council Rules of Procedure 4 A. Enacted by Council Motion on January 10, 2005: 5 6 1. Roberts' Rules of Order. The Council adopts the most recent edition of 7 Roberts' Rules of Order for all Council meetings. 9 2. Agenda. Any Councilmember may add an item or items to a Council Agenda 10 until 12:00 Noon on the Wednesday preceding a Monday City Council 11 meeting. 12 13 14 B. Discussed at the Council Retreat, Saturday, F~hruury 19, 2005. 15 16 1. Public Comment. The City Council_~~~i I1 r~ceia~ublic comment at Council 17 meetings in accordance withthe followin~,~~ui~l~.li~~~~: 18 a. Public Comment at the beginnin of a Cou ncil meeting and not pertaining 19 to an agenda item is for the purpose of al l ow i n~ Roseville residents the 20 opportunity to express their viewpoints abo~~t ~~c~licz- issues facing_their 21 Citesgovernment. Presentations will be limited tn_~ minutes per speaker. 22 [The "purpose" of public comment is clearly tci allow Roseville residents 23 to comment on non-agenda items. There appears to be an idea that this 24 means that nr~n-residents cannot speak during public comment. That is not 25 what the r~i lc ~a~-s and it is simply not practical to screen out non- 26 residents, so tl~~ ~~ ti~~ill be speaking. However, there is value in clearly 27 explaining t~~a~ the purpose of thae public comment is for Roseville 28 residents. is am~nnc ,u~~~uin~ that this is not the purpose of public 29 comment? 30 Regarding the time limit on speakers. I see this as a pretty straightforward 31 way to balance the interests of citizen "A" who speaks during public 32 against the interests of citizen "X," who has an item on the agenda near 33 the end of the meeting. Citizen X shouldn't have to have his item 34 addressed later in the evening 35 b. Public Comment pertainin tgo agenda items is for the purpose of allowing 36 any member of the public an opportunity to provide input on that item. 37 These public comments will en~erally be received after the staff 38 presentation on that agenda item and before Council discussion and 39 deliberation. These public comments are also limited to 5 minutes per 40 s ep aker. 41 c. Members of the public are always free, and encouraged, to reduce to 42 writing their comments about city business and to submit written 43 comments to the Council or staff before, during, or after a Council 44 meeting.