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EUGENE CITY COUNCIL OPERATING AGREEMENTS As of September 25, 2000 Exhibit A to Resolution No. 4645 6. The City Manager and Mayor shall decide the date that items come before Council for work sessions and for regular meetings. The City Manager shall continue to place routine and standard items of Council business on the Council agenda, which is exempt from this process. 3. ORDER OF ITEMS ON A SPECIFIC DATE MEETING AGENDA At the first regular meeting of each month, the first item on the agenda shall be used to acknowledge special recognition and awards given to the City of Eugene or for the Mayor to announce 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 called "Ceremonial Matters." Requests for recognition under Ceremonial Matters should be submitted in writing to the Mayor. At regular Council meetings, in order to expedite the Council's business, routine and standard items shall be placed on the consent calendar. Any item on the consent calendar may be pulled for separate consideration by any member of the Council. Revisions or corrections to meetings minutes shall be considered first, prior to other items pulled from the consent calendar. The remaining items on the consent calendar may then be considered for action by a single vote. The items pulled from the consent calendar shall be considered after the approval of the remainder of the consent calendar and before the next scheduled item on the agenda. Ordinances, because two separate readings are required, cannot be placed on the consent calendar. As a guideline, public hearings shall be placed on the specific meeting agenda before items only requiring action. Further, public hearings expected to draw a small number of speakers shall be placed before public hearings for which a larger number of speakers is expected. At work sessions held on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, the first item on the agenda "Items from Mayor, Council and City Manager." The time set for this item will be twenty minutes, subject to change at the time the meeting is called to order. 4. COUNCIL ACTION ON AGENDA ITEMS As a guideline, action on issues for which a public hearing has occurred shall not be taken at the same meeting at which the public hearing is held. The Council may, by a two thirds vote of those present at the meeting, vote to take action on the item for which the public hearing is being held at that same meeting. 5. POSTPONING A GENDA ITEMS Any councilor may request that an item be postponed to another meeting if he/she is unable to attend the meeting at which the item has been scheduled. As a courtesy, councilors should submit in writing a request to postpone (either via e-mail or in hand written form) to the Mayor as early as possible. If the Mayor is unavailable the request should be made to the City Manager or the Manager's designated staff Eugene City Council Operating Agreements - September 2000 Page 4 of 9 Exhibit A to Resolution No. 4645