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Page 4 5. The council will refrain from initiating a discussion during the public input phase of the hearing except to clarify brought up. These 'point of information' requests should be held to a minimum. 6. Once the public testimony phase is complete the chair will announce the public hearing to be closed and the council will revert back to its open discussion mode of operation. From this point on public input will only be appropriate when solicited by the council. 7. Voting on any motion that results from a public hearing will be by roll call. To eliminate any roll call bias, the order will be rotated each month and will be reflected in the 'call to order' roll of the agenda. 8. It shall be the intent of the council to vote on the issue at the same meeting as the public hearing and as close in time to the public hearing as possible. Should it be necessary to defer voting until a later date, that procedure will be clearly explained to the audience. 9. No public hearing will extend beyond 10 P.M. 10. If the motion contains conditions, as may occur in conditional use or variance requests, those conditions will be conveyed in writing to the requestor. 11. If the public hearing is the result of a resident request and that request is denied in whole or in part, reasons of fact supporting the denial will be made part of the public record. 12. If the public hearing is to set an assessment rate, the assessment formula(s) under discussion cannot be altered. This implies that the council has fully discussed any formulas prior to the hearing and that the appropriate legal, fiscal and engineering consultants have passed on formula(s) viability, legality and feasibility. 13. If the hearing is to set an assessment, it cannot be scheduled later than the first meeting in September. This is to allow time to correct any errors prior to the time needed to certify the rolls to the county.