Resolution 12120CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 12120
ESTABLISHING TIME LIMITS FOR PUBLIC DISCUSSION
AT CITY OF ALAMEDA CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS
WHEREAS, the City Council at their May 21, 1991 City
Council meeting approved an ordinance establishing that Rules of
Order relating to time limits for public discussion at City Council
meetings be established by Resolution of the City Council;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that:
Section 1. Except for public hearings and other
specified situations, no one, including Councilmembers, shall speak
for more than (3) minutes. The Mayor, as Presiding Officer, may
grant additional time upon determination that the information is
of interest. Spokepersons may speak for up to fifteen (15) minutes
at the discretion of the Mayor, as Presiding Officer. At public
hearings, the Council may establish similar or longer time limits
prior to commencement of the hearing as well as establish an
overall time period for the hearing.
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 regular meeting assembled on the eighteenth of
June, 1991, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Camicia, Lucas, Roth and
President Withrow - 4.
NOES: Councilman Arnerich - 1.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this nineteenth day of June, 1991.
Patricia Calbreath, Deputy City Clerk
City of Alameda