1.06.030 Order of proceeding for regular meetings – Study session prior to first regular meeting of each calendar month

1.06.030 Order of proceeding for regular meetings – Study session prior to first regular meeting of each calendar month.

The typical order of proceeding with business of the city council, during regular council meetings, which shall guide city staff when preparing and publishing an agenda for a regular meeting, is:

(1) Call to order;

(2) Roll call;

(3) Registering in record of councilmember absence(s) as excused absence(s), per Section 1.06.070;

(4) Pledge of Allegiance;

(5) Invocation;

(6) Announcement of changes, if any, from previously published agenda;

(7) Getting to know local businesses, agencies and/or people (up to five minutes total);

(8) Comments from the public (up to thirty minutes total);

The City of Selah is a non-charter code city and we are presently conducting a regular meeting between the Mayor and City Council. A maximum of thirty minutes will be allotted for public comments.

Common-sense standards of decorum apply. Comments must be respectful; no profanity or insults are allowed. Comments pertaining to City business and official actions are the most valued, but comments pertaining to City officials’ ability to fulfill their job duties due to events, actions, or activities that occurred outside the scope of their duties as a City official may also be offered. Constructive criticism of City officials is allowed including constructive criticism specifically mentioning City officials or employees by name as to official actions, but defamation, personal attacks and impertinent assertions are not allowed.

Commenters are limited to one comment per meeting and each comment is subject to a duration limit. City staff may disallow or modify any received written comment that exceeds its duration limit or that is deemed inappropriate, and the Mayor or Presiding Officer may turn off the podium microphone or otherwise silence any in-person comment that exceeds its duration limit or is deemed inappropriate.

These standards are subject to revision and will be updated whenever necessary in order to comply with constitutional requirements.

(A) Prearranged oral comments (up to five minutes each);

(B) Reading of received written comments (up to two minutes each);

(9) Proclamations/announcements;

(10) Consent agenda;

Consent Agenda items are listed with an asterisk (*). Those items are considered routine and will be addressed via a joint motion, without any discussion or debate. However, upon the request of any Councilmember an item will be removed from the Consent Agenda, will be addressed separately, and will be subject to discussion and debate.

(11) Public hearings;

(12) General business:

(A) New business;

(B) Old business;

(13) Resolutions;

(14) Ordinances;

(15) Reports/announcements:

(A) Departments;

(B) Councilmembers, personally and on behalf of committees and boards;

(D) City administrator;

(E) Mayor or presiding officer, personally and on behalf of committees and boards;

(16) Executive session(s);

(17) Adjournment.

When preparing and publishing an agenda for a regular meeting, city staff may modify the sequencing of the typical order of proceeding to promote efficiency such as by grouping related or similar items together or otherwise reordering the sequencing, subject to approval of the city administrator or city administrator’s designee. However, each item from the typical order of proceeding should appear on each published agenda, with “none,” “N/A” or an equivalent type of entry for any item for which no specific action is contemplated during the meeting.

Any ordinance, resolution or other item that is part of the consent agenda may be listed under category (10) of this section in addition to being separately listed under another category.

A study session shall presumptively be held, commencing at four thirty p.m., on the date of the first regular meeting during each calendar month. (Ord. 2176, § 1, 2022.)