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2. 2.01 Contact the City Manager and explain the nature, scope and desired outcome of the item for the agenda or make the request during “Items from Mayor and City Council” at a City Council work session. The City Manager and Mayor may then decide to place the item on a future agenda. 2.02 Alternatively, an item may be placed on the Council agenda by councilor request. A councilor may ask Council support staff for a work session or consideration of a resolution, and staff shall then poll all councilors, in writing, to ask if the item should be placed on the Council agenda. If, within two weeks of distribution of the poll, with an individualized reminder at five working days, a majority of the Council responds in the affirmative, the item shall be placed on the Council agenda within one week. A majority in this instance is four councilors. 2.03 At each regular meeting of the Council, the City Manager shall present the Tentative Agenda. This shall be placed on the Consent Calendar. If there are concerns about items on the Tentative Agenda,it may be removed at the request of any councilors from the Consent Calendar and discussed separately. 2.04 The Tentative Agenda shall be included in the weekly information packet provided to the Council. 2.05 The City Manager and Mayor shall decide the date that items come before Council for work sessions and for regular meetings. 2.06 The City Manager shall continue to place routine and standard items of Council business on the City Council agenda. 3. 3.01 The Eugene City Council shall begin its formal council meetings with a voluntary recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at those council meetings closest to the following holidays: Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Flag Day, and the Fourth of July. At the council meeting closest to the Fourth of July, the ceremony will also include readings from the Declaration of Independence and/or United States Constitution. 3.02 At the first regular meeting of each month, the first agenda item shall be used to acknowledge special recognition or awards given to the City of Eugene or for the Mayor to read proclamations which serve to encourage and educate the community. Proclamations shall be made and placed on the agenda at the discretion of the Mayor. This item shall be Exhibit A -- Page 4