Resolution 15697CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 15697
AMENDING SECTION 6 OF RESOLUTION NO. 15382, WHICH
ADOPTED RULES OF ORDER GOVERNING CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Alameda desires to have all citizens
fully participate in the proceedings of the City Council; and
WHEREAS, City Charter Art. I Sec. 2(0), Alameda Municipal Code Sees. 2-1.7
and 2-1.8, and Government Code Sec. 54954.3 gives the City Council discretion to adopt
reasonable regulations concerning the proceedings and order of business of City Council
meetings; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 2674, adopted at the August 16, 1994 City Council
meeting, states that Rules of Order of City Council meetings shall be set by City Council
Resolution;
WHEREAS, Resolution No. 15382 was adopted on May 15, 2018; and
WHEREAS, Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft and Councilmember Oddie wish to refine
Section 6.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Alameda that
Section 6 of Resolution No. 15382 is amended to:
6. Council Questions and Comments. Each Councilmember may ask questions
and deliberate for up to nine (9) minutes per agenda item. Presentations and procedural
discussions are not timed. Special meetings and workshops addressing one topic, taking
place on a day no other Council meeting is taking place where regular City business is
being considered, also will not be timed. Councilmembers should refrain from asking
questions during staff presentations.
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting assembled
on the 15th day of September, 2020, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Knox White, Oddie, Vella and
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft -5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None .
ABSTENTIONS: None .
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of
said City this 16th day of September, 2020.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Yibin Shen, City Attorney
City of Alameda
Lara Weisiger, ty Clerk
City of Alameda