(A) There is hereby established a consent agenda procedure for the transaction of certain routine business at Council meetings. The intent of this procedure is to expedite the conducting of routine business at Council 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 the items if appropriate.
(B) The procedure to be followed is as follows.
(1) Items considered by the City Manager to be of routine and non-controversial nature may be placed by him or her on the agenda for regular Council meetings and special Council meetings under the heading of "consent agenda." The items shall be clearly worded to indicate action to be taken by the Council.
(2) At the Council meeting, the Mayor will review those items placed on the consent agenda and ask if any member of the Council or public in attendance wish to have an item removed from the consent agenda and placed on the regular agenda. Requests are not debatable, and will be complied with without discussion.
(3) After all items have been removed from the consent agenda, as requested by a member of the Council or public in attendance, the Council will then consider adoption of the actions recommended and specified in the consent agenda by a single motion and vote of the 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 item in the minutes.
(Prior Code, § 1-612)