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ORDINANCE NO. 3249
ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE-CITY Of' PALO ALTO
AMENDING SEC'rION 2.04.060 OF THE PALO AL'I'O MUNICIPAL
CODE REGARDING THE ORDER OF CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS
The Council of the City of Palo Alto does ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 2.04.060 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code
L:> hereby amended to t·ead as follows:
"2.04.060 Order of business. (a) At
7:30 p.m. on the day of each regular meeting,
the city councilmernbers, city clerk, city at
torney, city manager, city controller, and such
department heads as have been requested to be
present, shall take their regular stations in
the council chamber( and th;:~ busines~:> of the
cr_,uncil .sha11 be taken up for corrniderat ion an,.i
disposition in the following order e:-<Ct~pt. thu.t
with a vote of a majority of the councilmembers
present, matters may be taken up out of order
and except as providc~d in paragraph (b) here·
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(1) Roll call;
(2) Oral communications, upon items not
appearing elsewhere on the council's agenda.
'l'his period shall be limited to five minutes
per speake1:;
(J) Approval of minutes of previous meet
ing ( s);
( 4) Special orders of the day;
(5) Consent calendar. Items may be
placed upon the consent calendar by any coun
cil-appointed officer wheneve~, in such off i
cer' s ju~gment, such items are expected to be
routinely approved without discussion or de
bate.
The consent calendar shall. he voted upon
as one item, and said vote $hall not affect the
validity of the action tak 0 r upon any such in
dividual item. Any counc.imember may request
that an individual item be removed from the
consent calendar in which case sc: i :~ ~ :-:.-11, :;b~ 11
be considered at the end of the agenda item in
which it would have otherwise appeared. No
discussion or debate shall be permitted upon
items upon the ~onsent calendar~ however, any
councilmernber may request that such member's
vote be reconJed as other than aye on any in ..
dividual item without removing the same from
the consent calendar.
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The consent calendar shall be in two
parts, as follows:
(a) Any item recommended for refer
ral to another city agency;
(b) All other itemsr
(6) Agenda changes, additions, and
deletions;
( 7) Unfinished business;
( 8) Public hearings;
( 9) Reports of committees/commissions;
( 1 0) Resoluti.ons;
( 1 1 ) Or.dinances;
( ·1 2) Reports of officials;
( 1 3) Council matters.
( 1 4 ) Adjournment.
(b) At 10:30 p.m. the city council shall
determine by vote whether it will commence any
new items after 11:00 p.m. If the council
votes to commence new items, }_shall determine
which specif le items will be taken up.
(c} Executive sessions shall be scheduled
to the extent possible and appropriate prior to
regular o~ special city council meetings.
(d) When a regular meeting is adjo11rned
sine die (without a day) all unfinished items
will be listed under 'Unfinished Business 4 on
the next regular council meeting agenda except
that whe~e deemed necessary, the city clerk
with the city manager's concurrence may place
unfinished business items in a different order
on the agenda.
When a regular meeting is adjourned to an
other regular meeting night, all unfinished
items will be listed in their original order
after 'roll call' on the agenda of such desig
nated regular meeting.
(e) When an item on the agenda is contin
ued to a subsequent meeting, such item will be
listed under 'unfinished business' on such
~genda unless the council by majority vote
chooses to place such item in a different loca
tion on such agenda or unless the city clerk
with the city manager's concurrence deems it
necessary to place such item at a different
location on such agenda."
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SECTION 2. The Council finds that this is not a project under
the Cali.fornTa 8nvir.onmenta.l Quality Act and, therefore, no envi
ronmental impact assc~ssment is necessary.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall become effective upon the
commencement of the thirty-first Jay after the day of its passage.
IN'l'RODUC8D: November 17' l.980
PASS!!~D: Decernber 8, 1980
AYES~ Brenner, Eyerly, Fazzino, Fletcher, Henderson, Levy, Renzel, vlitherspoon
NOES: None
J\BSTF:N'rION!3: None
ABSEN'l': None /\
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