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ATTY/POLICIES/A GUIDE TO CITY COUNCIL COMMUNICATIONS & BUSINESS REV: 01/10/2018 Page 6 of 13 3. Any person desiring to address the Council must first obtain permission of the Presiding Officer, via the use of speaker cards as outlined below. 4. Speakers shall use the microphone provided for the public and speak in a recordable tone, either personally or with assistance, if necessary. 5. All remarks should be addressed to the Council as a body and not to any individual member nor to staff or any other member of the public 6. In order to assure the opportunity for all those desiring to speak before the Council, there is no yielding of time to another speaker. 7. Speaker Cards. Speaker cards must be submitted to the City Clerk, in order to address the Council during oral communications and on any agenda matter. The speaker must identify the agenda item number and/or subject matter on which the speaker desires to comment. Identifying information requested on the speaker cards is optional and is collected so that that the City can respond to speakers when appropriate after the meeting. Please note: e-mail addresses, names, addresses, and other contact information are not required, but if included on the speaker card or in any communication to the City Council, will become part of the public record. A speaker may list his or her name on the card as “anonymous” and address as “City Resident.” The Presiding Officer will call on speakers by the name listed on the speaker card, so if a speaker lists his or her name as “anonymous” or another pseudonym, he or she should be prepared to respond to that name when called to the podium by the Presiding Officer. 8. The City Clerk will give the cards to the Presiding Officer so that the speakers may be identified an orderly way. Once the public comment period has begun, no additional speaker cards will be collected and no additional speakers will be allowed to speak. This is because the amount of time allotted to speakers is dependent upon the total number of speakers, as determined by the number of speaker cards submitted prior to the start of the public comment period. 9. Petitions. Petitions shall be submitted to the City Clerk and shall not be read in their entirety unless requested to do so by the Council. C. Public Comment: Non-Agenda Matters and Consent Calendar. 1. The General Rules for all public comment apply (see above). 2. The time for public comment on this portion of the agenda is generally fifteen (15) minutes. Regardless of the number of speakers, a speaker shall not exceed 3 minutes but the time allotted might be less than 3 minutes when there are more than 5 speakers, at the discretion of the Presiding Officer. When there are numerous speakers, the Presiding Officer may extend the time for public comment for non-agenda and consent items. 6.1.D. - Page 8