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28 <br /> <br /> <br />COUNCIL CHAMBERS EXPECTATIONS OF DECORUM <br />A. We respect your right to participate as citizens, but we expect you to be courteous and <br />polite to the Council, City staff, and other members of the public. <br />B. We respect your right to disagree, but we expect you to express your disagreement only <br />at the podium, or when called and only at the appropriate time. <br />C. We respect your right to dispute the recommendations of the City staff, and we value our <br />employees and the work they do. We ask you to discuss facts and not attack <br />personalities. <br />D. We have zero tolerance for inflammatory, racist, or similar hateful comments from the <br />public. We also have zero tolerance for any displays of support or opposition from the <br />audience as a whole. We expect the public to respect the right of the Council to <br />deliberate in a responsible and purposeful fashion. <br />E. Some examples of behavior that will not be tolerated include: disruptive behavior <br />that interrupts proceedings, threats of harm, use of bull horns or sound <br />amplification equipment, waving signs that block other audience members <br />views. <br /> <br />The Mayor, at their discretion, may remind the audience of the Expectations of Decorum <br />and have anyone removed from the Chambers who does not comply and commits acts <br />that disrupt the meeting. <br /> <br />COUNCIL ACTIONS <br />Actions of the Council shall be taken by ordinance, resolution or motion. Actions of the Council <br />require the affirmative votes of a majority of the entire Council membership. The membership of <br />the Council is comprised of a Mayor and six Councilmembers. The Council shall pass ordinances <br />and resolutions only by taking the ayes and nays by an open vote, which shall be entered in the <br />minutes of the meeting. The ayes and nays shall be taken and recorded on all motions. <br />Abstentions shall also be recorded. (SLMC, Title I, Chapter 1, Article 3) <br /> <br />RULES OF PROCEDURE <br />The Council, by ordinance, shall establish rules of procedure for taking actions. Such rules shall: <br />A. Provide that Council actions shall require the affirmative votes of a majority of the entire <br />Council membership. <br />B. Provide for the introduction, publication, adoption, amendment, effective date, and <br />codification of ordinances. <br />C. Provide for the introduction and adoption of resolutions. (Section 330, City Charter) <br /> <br />TIE VOTES <br />Tie votes are lost motions. Except when hearing a Planning item, when all Councilmembers are <br />present, a tie vote whether to grant an appeal from official action shall be considered a denial of <br />such appeal, unless the Council takes another action to consider the matter further. If a tie vote <br />results at a time when less than all members of the Council are present, the matter shall <br />automatically be continued to the agenda of the next regular meeting of the Council, unless