The business of the Council shall generally be taken up for consideration and disposition in the following order.
(A) Call to order. The Mayor shall take the chair at the hour appointed for the meeting and shall call the Council to order as soon as a quorum is present. In the absence of the Mayor, the Vice-Mayor, or in his or her absence the Clerk or his or her assistant, shall call the Council to order and a temporary Chairperson shall be selected to chair the meeting. Upon the arrival of the Mayor or the Vice-Mayor, the temporary Chairperson shall immediately relinquish the chair upon the conclusion of the business immediately before the Council. The Mayor, Vice-Mayor or the temporary Chairperson shall preserve order and decorum, decide all questions of order and conduct the proceedings of the meeting in accordance with the parliamentary rules contained in Robert's Rules of Order unless otherwise specified.
(B) Roll call. Before proceeding with the business of the Council, the Clerk or Deputy Clerk shall call the roll of the members and the names of those present shall be entered in the minutes.
(C) Consent agenda. The Council may approve all items included on the consent agenda by a single motion; except that, at the request of any member of the Council, any item will be removed from the consent agenda to be discussed and voted on separately.
(D) Business. The Council shall consider any business which has been properly noticed.
(E) Expenditures. The staff may report expenditures made by the town which will then be ratified by the Council.
(F) Reports by officers. Town officials and committees shall present any reports required by the Council.
(G) Call to the public. Comments or suggestions from citizens present shall be heard by the Council. All remarks shall be addressed to the Council as a whole and not to any member thereof. The remarks shall be limited to five minutes unless additional time is granted by the Council. Except for responses to questions of fact, such as dates, times or locations of events, projects and the like, state law prohibits discussion of issues raised under this part of the agenda.
(H) Adjournment.
(1) The Mayor, if there is no objection, may declare adjournment; or, the Council may, by a majority vote of those present, adjourn from time to time to a specific date and hour.
(2) A motion to adjourn shall always be in order and decided without debate.
(I) Future agenda items.
(1) The agenda for the regularly scheduled meetings shall contain an item entitled “Future Agenda Items” at the end of Call to the Public whereas an item may be discussed and voted on only for the express purpose of whether to place the item on a future agenda of the Council in accordance with Section 4 of the Town Council Rules and Procedures.
(2) As to the placement of any other items on any agenda, Section 4 of the Town Council Rules and Procedures shall be followed.
(1996 Code, § 2.04.140) (Ord. 98-07, passed - -; Ord. 01-02, passed - -2001; Ord. 11-13, passed 11-7-2011)