Community ServicesBuilding

440 Civic CenterPlaza

Richmond, CA 94804

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

6:00 p.m.

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Mayor Vice Mayor Thomas K. Butt Melvin Willis

Councilmembers

Jovanka Beckles

Ben Choi

Eduardo Martinez

Jael Myrick

Ada Recinos

COMMUNICATION ACCESS INFORMATION:

This meeting is being heldin a wheelchair accessible location. To request disability-relatedaccommodation(s) to participate in the meeting, including auxiliary aids orservices, please contact Bruce Soublet, ADA Coordinator, at (510) 620-6509 atleast three business days before the meeting date.

MEETING PROCEDURES

The City of Richmond encourages community participation atits City Council meetings and has established procedures that are intended toaccommodate public input in a timely and time-sensitive way. As a courtesy toall members of the public who wish to participate in City Council meetings,please observe the following procedures:

PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS : Anyone whodesires to address the City Council on items appearing on the agenda mustcomplete and file a pink speaker’s card with the City Clerk prior to the City Council’s consideration of the item. Once the City Clerk has announcedthe item, no person shall be permitted to speak on the item other than thosepersons who have submitted their names to the City Clerk. Your name will becalled when the item is announced for discussion. Each speaker will be allowed up to TWO (2) MINUTES toaddress the City Council on NON-PUBLIC HEARING items listed on the agenda.Speakers are allowed up to THREE (3) minutes on PUBLIC HEARING items.

SPEAKERS ARE REQUESTED TO OCCUPY THE RESERVED SEATS INTHE FRONT ROW BEHIND THE SPEAKER’S PODIUM AS THEIR NAME IS ANNOUNCED BY THECITY CLERK.

CONDUCT AT MEETINGS: Richmond City Councilmeetings are limited public forums during which the City strives to provide anopen, safe atmosphere and promote robust public debate. Members of the public,however, must comply with state law, as well as the City’s laws and proceduresand may not actually disrupt the orderly conduct of these meetings. The public,for example, may not shout or use amplifying devices, must submit comment cardsand speak during their allotted time, may not create a physical disturbance,may not speak on matters unrelated to issues within the jurisdiction of theCity Council or the agenda item at hand, and may not cause immediate threats topublic safety.

CITY HARASSMENT POLICY: The City invitespublic comment and critique about its operations, including comment about theperformance of its public officials and employees, at the public meetings ofthe City Council and boards and commissions. However, discriminatory orharassing comments about or in the presence of City employees, even comments bythird parties, may create a hostile work environment, if severe or pervasive.The City prohibits harassment against an applicant, employee, or contractor onthe basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physicaldisability, medical condition, mental disability, marital status, sex(including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexualorientation, gender identity, age or veteran status, or any other characteristicprotected by federal, state or local law. In order to acknowledge the public’sright to comment on City operations at public meetings, which could includecomments that violate the City’s harassment policy if such comments do notcause an actual disruption under the Council Rules and Procedures, while takingreasonable steps to protect City employees from discrimination and harassment,City Boards and Commissions shall adhere to the following procedures. If anyperson makes a harassing remark at a public meeting that violates the aboveCity policy prohibiting harassment, the presiding officer of the meeting may,at the conclusion of the speaker’s remarks and allotted time: (a) remind thepublic that the City’s Policy Regarding Harassment of its Employees iscontained in the written posted agenda; and (b) state that comments inviolation of City policy are not condoned by the City and will play no role inCity decisions. If any person makes a harassing remark at a public meetingthat violates the above City policy, any City employee in the room who isoffended by remarks violating the City’s policy is excused from attendance atthe meeting. No City employee is compelled to remain in attendance where itappears likely that speakers will make further harassing comments. If anemployee leaves a City meeting for this reason, the presiding officer may senda designee to notify any offended employee who has left the meeting when thosecomments are likely concluded so that the employee may return to the meeting.The presiding officer may remind an employee or any council or board orcommission member that he or she may leave the meeting if a remark violatingthe City’s harassment policy is made. These procedures supplement the CouncilRules and Procedures relating to disruption of orderly conduct at Councilmeetings.

Any law enforcement officer on duty or whose service iscommanded by the presiding officer shall be Sergeant-at-Arms of the Councilmeetings. He/she, or they, shall carry out all orders and instructions givenby the presiding officer for the purpose of maintaining order and decorum atthe Council meetings (City Council Rules of Procedure and Order Section III F,RMC Section 2.12.030).

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