The city of Jefferson has a new policy that outlines the protocols and procedures regarding city council meetings.
The City Council approved at its July 23rd meeting a resolution for a policy about how its meetings are to be conducted and other information surrounding how meetings happen. City Administrator Scott Peterson explains why there needed to be a policy about city council meetings established.
“Just realizing that a lot of these things included in the policies have been implemented this way and doesn’t propose a lot of changes to the way things have been done, it just gets a written down policy about that.”
Peterson points out several areas within the policy include the time, place and dates of regular council meetings, how items get on a meeting agenda, and the conduct of meetings with subjects like public participation are also covered.
“I know that’s always an important issue. And again, it doesn’t propose any big changes about how we’ve done public participation, that the mayor and council still value public participation on any of the agenda items.”
Click the link below to see the policy with the July 23rd city council meeting packet.