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10/16/23, 9:56 AM Print Preview https://lakeelmo.municipalcodeonline.com/book/print?type=ordinances&name=TITLE_3_ADMINISTRATION 10/39 (c)Consent agenda. A consent agenda may be used to improve the efficiency of meetings. The consent agenda allows the council to consider several items at one time. Only one motion is necessary to approve all items on the consent agenda. (1)Items that require findings of fact or an explanation of council actions, such as land use matters and the consideration of licensing requests, should not be placed on the consent agenda. (2)An item on the consent agenda may be removed from such agenda for full consideration by the council upon request made by any member of the council. Items removed from the consent agenda will be placed on the regular agenda for discussion and consideration. (d)Presentation, discussion and agenda item decisions. The following is the order of business for presenting and discussing items on council agendas: (1)Introduction of item; (2)Report by staff or other presenter; (3)Questions from councilmembers to the presenter in a round robin manner. The presiding officer will facilitate the round robin process by asking each individual councilmember for one question and allowing for a response to the individual question. Then the presiding officer will ask the next councilmember, in sequence, until all councilmembers have asked and received responses to a question. No councilmember shall take more than three minutes to ask a question or comment on an item which is being presented before another councilmember has a turn to question and comment on the same item; (4)Receive questions/comments from the applicant/requesting party to the council, and allow each councilmember to respond in the round robin process; (5)Allow questions from councilmembers to the applicant/requesting party, if applicable, using the round robin process; (6)Allow questions/comments from the public to councilmembers. Each member of the public shall state his comments in six minutes. Council shall not interrupt or interact until all public comments are completed; (7)At the conclusion of the round robin process, the presiding officer calls for a motion or discussion among the council. Discussion on any presentation shall be kept to a minimum, and each councilmember shall only speak twice on the issue. This action is not an indication that the motion on the table is the motion that will be approved in its current form. It is purely for discussion purposes; (8)Discussion among councilmembers using the round robin process with each member speaking no more than twice on a motion; (9)Action by the council on the motion. (e)Meeting schedule. (1)Each meeting of the council shall convene at the time and place appointed. All public hearings shall commence at the advertised time. (2)Council business shall be conducted in the order of the prepared agenda, unless an alteration is approved by a majority of the council. (3)The last item on the agenda will be commenced no later than 12:00 midnight.