(A) There is hereby established a consent agenda procedure for the transaction of certain routine business at meetings of the governing body. The intent of this procedure is to expedite the conduct of routine business at such meetings to allow more time to be devoted to substantive issues by condensing the time necessary to process routine items, but yet allowing an opportunity for full discussion in consideration of said items if appropriate.
(B) The procedure to be followed is as follows.
(1) Items considered by the City Clerk to be routine and non-controversial in nature may be placed on the agenda for regular and special meetings of the governing body under the heading of “consent agenda”. Such items shall be clearly worded to indicate action to be taken by the governing body.
(2) At the meeting, the Mayor will review those items placed on the consent agenda and ask if any member of the City Council or public in attendance wishes to have an item removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda. All such requests are not debatable and will be complied with without discussion.
(3) After items have been removed from the consent agenda as requested by a member of the City Council or public in attendance, the City Council will then consider adoption of the remaining actions recommended and specified in the consent agenda by a single motion and vote of the City Council.
(4) All items listed on the consent agenda shall be recorded in the minutes individually and in their proper form, and the vote recorded adopting the recommended and specified action on the consent agenda shall be shown as the vote on each such item in the minutes.
(Ord. 2019-819, passed 9-16-2019)