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City Council Meeting Minutes December 5, 2017 Page 8 of 12 Councilmember Stolzmann stated she finds the proposal meets all the PUD cntena Voice vote• All in favor 6-0. Councilmember Loo absent RESOLUTION NO. 71, SERIES 2017 — A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE CITY COUNCIL RULES OF PROCEDURE Councilmember Leh, chair of the Legal Review Committee, stated this item was tasked to the Committee. It is designed to bring uniformity to Council meetings consistent with the charter and ordinances The Committee wanted to balance several factors He read the underlying purpose as noted in the preamble: A bedrock principle of a representative democracy is notice of impending governmental action and an opportunity for members of the public and their representatives to be heard. Principles of good government include deep respect for citizens; prudent stewardship of public resources, including the time of its citizens, staff members and elected officials, direction that is clear and decisive; and decision making that is reasonably consistent, equitable, flexible, and transparent Through the application of these Rules, Council intends to ensure that it balances the principles described in the previous section in a way that ensures robust debate and accountability of City government to its residents. To that end, these procedures are not meant to be employed for the purpose of unreasonable rigidity, surprise, suppression of competing views, or needless prolonging of action. Councilmember Leh descnbed the process used to draft the rules There was an initial draft with many revisions by the Committee in several meetings. It was then reviewed by Attorney Light for consistency with Charter and structure Councilmember Leh reviewed the structure of the document. Noting it is always good to have the aspirations of meeting civility and provide the chair a certain amount of discretion to maintain the decorum of the meeting Councilmember Leh highlighted section VI.E public comments. The committee had a robust discussion regarding the three-minute time limit and how to consistently enforce it to be equitable. He asked if Council was interested in allowing the aggregating of time if wanted by residents to allow one person to take additional time. This draft proposes a group may designate a spokesperson up to a maximum of 6 minutes. They must be present to give up their time and designate a spokesperson On second round of comments, speakers get two minutes.