As an elected official, you bear a heavy burden: you will be making decisions that will determine your city’s future. You owe it to your constituents to represent them well. This responsibility includes being prepared to lead. Do your homework. Study the issues and have the facts in hand before the meeting. Review the data, reports, and background information provided by the staff before arriving at city hall, including pertinent municipal ordinances. Evaluate alternatives and be prepared to debate your position effectively. A councilmember who comes to a meeting unprepared may unwittingly and unnecessarily slow down the meeting. The rules of order that your city use will help keep debate civil, but you also must keep your temper in check. It is embarrassing and unprofessional when a mayor or councilmember loses control in a public meeting. In such cases, the mayor or whoever is chairing the meeting may have the unruly member removed from the meeting.
As an elected official, you bear a heavy burden: you will be making decisions that will determine your city’s future. You owe it to your constituents to represent them well. This responsibility includes being prepared to lead. Do your homework. Study the issues and have the facts in hand before the meeting. Review the data, reports, and background information provided by the staff before arriving at city hall, including pertinent municipal ordinances. Evaluate alternatives and be prepared to debate your position effectively. A councilmember who comes to a meeting unprepared may unwittingly and unnecessarily slow down the meeting. The rules of order that your city use will help keep debate civil, but you also must keep your temper in check. It is embarrassing and unprofessional when a mayor or councilmember loses control in a public meeting. In such cases, the mayor or whoever is chairing the meeting may have the unruly member removed from the meeting.
rpforpres, is that a quote from Jason Cuthbert or someone else. It does sound familiar.
I knew I had read this somewhere.... handbook-meeting-procedures by Support Daddy Vs Catoosa County http://docs.com/HE9I?doc_text=1
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Meetings and Public Participation 3an otherwise long and drawn out regular meeting. Special meetings may also be convened during an emergency.Public HearingsPublic hearings allow citizens to express opinions on matters of public concern. Generally, no official action is taken during a public hearing. Some hearings are required by law, but they may also be used by the council for other matters. They may be called in order to gather facts related to proposed action or to gauge public opinion by allowing citizens the opportunity to comment on a specific topic, such as a land-use plan. They may also be used as town hall meetings to meet members of the public and learn about their concerns. Finally, they can be used to allow the citizens to vent their frustrations. Public hearings may be held as a part of a regular or special meeting, or they may be entirely separate meetings.Although there are many opportunities to meet, official decisions may only be made in regular, open meetings of the elected body. At such meetings, issues are publicly debated, and action is taken. Local officials must resist the temptation to make final decisions prior to official meetings and then “rubber-stamp” them at the official meeting. PREPARING FOR MEETINGSAs an elected official, you bear a heavy burden: you will be making decisions that will determine your city’s future. You owe it to your constituents to represent them well. This responsibility includes being prepared to lead. Do your homework. Study the issues and have the facts in hand before the meeting. Review the data, reports, and background information provided by the staff before arriving at city hall, including pertinent municipal ordinances. Evaluate alternatives and be prepared to debate your position effectively. A councilmember who comes to a meeting unprepared may unwittingly and unnecessarily slow down the meeting. The rules of order that your city use will help keep debate civil, but you also must keep your temper in check. It is embarrassing and unprofessional when a mayor or councilmember loses control in a public meeting. In such cases, the mayor or whoever is chairing the meeting may have the unruly member removed from the meeting.You and your fellow elected officials should know who is responsible for setting the meeting agenda. Determine how the agenda is set, how
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
The elections were last Nov. and the people rejected the Democrat Lite Alliance party, led by Mitt Romney Roger Hull.
I'm sure rpforpres, you stuck by your libertarian values and rejected both parties and wrote in 'Sparky' for mayor.
So do what we are going to do...STFU, put your house up, take the $$$ hit, and GTFO.
Yeah, sorry if I seem harsh to ya brah, but I'm get sick of all the whining.
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
Yeah rpforpres, you should have voted for Mr Metroplex Hull. If he was elected, the city of Schenectady could have created there own metroplex like the county republicans did in 1998. So stop your whining and fall in line.
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