A member of the city councilor the city manager may cause ordinances, resolutions, and other items to be placed on the agenda for consideration.
(a) Establishment and preparation of agendas. The city manager shall direct the establishment and preparation of agendas for regular, special, emergency, and workshop city council meetings, including editing any item or item description. The city secretary or the city manager's designee shall be responsible for preparing and posting the agendas The city attorney shall make a cursory review of the agenda and its supporting documentation prior to its posting.
(b) Submission of agenda items. All agenda item submissions shall be in writing; shall include a copy of any proposed item for consideration by the council
(c) Submission deadlines. Items submitted for inclusion in a meeting agenda shall be delivered or transmitted to the city manager no later than as follows:
(1) Ordinances and resolutions shall be in writing and be delivered or transmitted to the city manager by 12:00 p.m. the Thursday preceding the regular council meeting. Copies of the proposed ordinance or resolution, in the form required for adoption, shall be available at the office of the city secretary and shall be furnished to citizens, upon request to the city secretary, before first reading and, if amended, shall be available and furnished in the amended form for as long as the proposed ordinance is before council.
(2) Any agenda item, other than an ordinance or resolution, shall be in writing and be delivered or transmitted to the city manager by 5:00 p.m. on the Tuesday previous to the regular Tuesday meeting or at least 72 hours in advance of any other scheduled meeting, except for emergency items and emergency meetings.
(3) Emergency items may be added to the agenda up to two hours previous to a meeting. Cases of emergency and urgent public necessity are limited to imminent threats to public health and safety or reasonably unforeseeable situations requiring immediate action by the city council.
(d) Sponsorship of agenda items. Any item placed on any meeting agenda shall be attributed on the agenda to the person(s) requesting the item or the author(s) of the item.
(e) Removal of item from the agenda. In no event shall a requested item be removed from an agenda, except if each person or persons who requested it requests removal before the agenda was initially posted. No one may remove an item from an agenda except pursuant to this subsection.
(f) Second reading required. Any ordinance or resolution that passes on a first reading shall be included for a second reading no later than the subsequent regular agenda.
(Prior Code, § 1-173; Ord. No. 012-2020, § 3, 4-28-2020; Ord. No. 029-2021, § 1, 6-22-2021; Ord. No. 020-2022, § 1, 6-14-2022)