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Rules Of The Board
Chapter IV
Order Of Business
Section 13. TUESDAY MEETINGS. The business of each regular meeting of the Board held on the first, second, third and fifth Tuesdays of each month or upon the first succeeding day in the event any regular Tuesday meeting falls upon a holiday or the day that a statewide primary or general election is being held, as set forth in Section 2 of Chapter II of these Rules, shall be transacted as far as practicable in the following order:
- Invocation.
- Pledge of Allegiance.
- Calling of agenda by Executive Officer - Clerk of the Board to determine holds and continuances of individual agenda items.
- Presentations.
- Items not on the posted agenda, to be presented and (if requested) referred to staff or placed on the agenda for action at a future meeting of the Board, or items requiring immediate action because of an emergency situation or where the need to take immediate action came to the attention of the Board subsequent to the posting of the agenda.
- Posted agenda items referred to in (c) which are held for individual discussion.
- Set Matters.
- Comments by members of the public on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Board.
No Set Matter shall be set for a time prior to 11 a.m., and no Set Matter shall be considered by the Board until all other business except item (h) above has been completed, unless the Board takes action to change the order of business set forth above
Each regular meeting of the Board held on the fourth Tuesday of each month shall be primarily for the purpose of conducting legally required public hearings. The Mayor/Chair shall have discretion to authorize the Executive Officer-Clerk of the Board to place on agendas for said meetings, items recommended by departments which have time constraints or are critical in nature. Further, individual Board members may place their motions on said agendas. The business of said meetings shall be transacted as far as practicable in the following order:
- Invocation
- Pledge
- Posted agenda items, with public hearings conducted prior to the consideration of Board motions and administrative recommendations by departments.
- Items not on the posted agenda, to be presented and (if requested) referred to staff or placed on the agenda for action at a future meeting of the Board, or items requiring immediate action because of an emergency situation or where the need to take immediate action came to the attention of the Board subsequent to the posting of the agenda.
- Comments by members of the public on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Board.
Section 14. Deleted
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