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Agenda Item

X. CITY COUNCIL MEETING RULES (City Attorney Mike Jenkins - 12:00 P.M.) Consider proposed revisions to Council meeting rules to conform them to the new Council agenda format and to delete "written communications" unrelated to any agenda item. A redline of the meeting rules with the recommended changes is attached.

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    Kent allen over 2 years ago

    It is very disturbing that Justin and Suja are once again bringing up this matter after it was previously stopped. This is not communist China. Justin and Suja are not dictators. Stopping people from providing written comminution is just wrong.

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    Carolyn Petty over 2 years ago

    It is completely inappropriate for this council to stop attaching written communications to the agenda, and it is shocking that you just won't give up on this one. First it was Suja wanting to do this, ostensibly because she wants to be front and center, then does not like the associated critiques. Now Mike is covering for Suja - and the Mike Jenkins I knew what have never, ever done this. It is shocking that a city attorney would propose this - it is not his job. Why is this council even permitting this to be a discussion? Your job is to listen to the community. If you do not want to do that, you should not serve in this capacity. Your job is to accept input - and allow others to express themselves. Of course people should be able to comment on items NOT on the agenda. How else can they make their voices heard publicly? Not everyone is comfortable at the podium. If you do not permit written comments to be attached to the agenda, you are shutting down your community's voice. This would have been unthinkable with any other council. But now that you have become so entrenched with Stacey and Justin running the show, you think you can literally do whatever you want - be it paying a million dollar settlement and hiding the payout in a check register, or continuing to blame the downtown businesses for everything that happens in Hermosa Beach. All of us who watch what is going on, knew this was coming back. It is time to shut this down for good.

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    Ryan Tucker over 2 years ago

    Government shouldn't be hindering communication from the public. General communication or otherwise. And for what to streamline the agenda? That's a pretty weak excuse. If it's too much for Suja to handle have her new deputy do it.