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Council Meeting
Protocol
[ Presenting Business,
Addressing the Council, & Dress Code ]
Presenting
you items of business before the City Council:
Deadline for
submitting Agenda items is 4:30pm the Thursday prior to Council Meeting.
(Please submit a single original document addressed to the Honorable
mayor and council.)
Addressing
the Council:
RESOLVED by the
City Council that effective, immediately, persons may address the City
Council under the following rules:
1.) Any person may address the Mayor and Council at the conclusion of
Communications-Miscellaneous and prior to Communications from City and
Other Officials.
2.) The total time that a person may address the City Council is five
(5) minutes unless the City Council, by majority, votes to suspend this
rule.
3.) When the time limit expires, the chairman of the evening shall so
notify the speaker and permit he or she to complete their address within
the next thirty (30) seconds.
4.) If the speaker has not finished at the end of thirty (30) seconds,
the Mayor or other presiding official shall strike the gavel and direct
the speaker to quit speaking immediately.
5.) Each person who wishes to address the Council shall step up to the
podium and state his or her name and address. No speaker may make
personal attacks upon any officer, employee, or City Council member or
other elected official, that is totally unrelated to the manner in which
the officer, employee, or City Council member or other elected official
performs his or her duties. No person shall use threatening or abusive
language when addressing the city Council. Comment shall be directed to
the Mayor and City Council and not to members sitting in the audience.
Any person who violates this section shall be directed by the Mayor or
other presiding officer to be orderly and silent.
6.) If the person addressing the Council refuses to become silent when
directed, or if any person is committing a breach of the peace or is
disturbing or disrupting the Council meeting, the Mayor and person
presiding at the City Council meeting shall order the person to leave
the Council meeting. If the person refuses to leave as directed, the
Mayor or presiding officer may direct any law enforcement officer who is
present or any other City Official to escort the violator from the
meeting.
7.) Any member of the public may address the Mayor and City Council on
any agenda item at the conclusion of Communications from City and Other
Officials.
Dress
Code:
City Council adopted a
dress code under the authority of Section 3 of the Michigan Open
Meetings Act and Section 71 of the Wyandotte City Charter that states as
follows:
"To maintain the
dignity and decorum of the City Council Meetings and so as not to
disrupt said meetings no person shall be allowed to attend and/or
address the Wyandotte City Council unless they are dressed in proper
attire. Persons not wearing shoes or wearing inappropriate clothing such
as tank top-type I-shirts, bathing suits. and inappropriate shorts and
men's hats or caps or the like shall be excluded from the meetings."
Signs advising the public
of these rules are posted on the first floor of the City Hall Building
and immediately outside the City Hall Chambers.
City Council Meetings Cable Replay:
Channel 19
Monday
@ 11pm
Tuesday @ 9am
& 1:30pm
Friday
@ 11 am, 2pm,
& 8pm
Saturday
@ 9am
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