TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, City Manager
FROM:
Alexandria Latragna, Acting Communications and Civic Engagement Manager
SUBJECT:Title
Consider Request by Mayor Montgomery and Councilmember Howorth to Discuss Sending a Letter Requesting that Senator Ben Allen and Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi Sponsor Legislation Regulating Electronic Bike Use (City Manager Moe).
(Estimated Time: 5 Mins.)
DISCUSS AND PROVIDE DIRECTION
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RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council discuss and provide direction regarding the request by Mayor Montgomery and Councilmember Howorth to discuss sending a letter requesting that Senator Ben Allen and Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi support legislation regulating electronic bike use at a future City Council meeting.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
There are no fiscal implications associated with the recommended action. However, should the City Council direct staff to analyze the request, staff time and resources may be expended to accommodate the request.
BACKGROUND:
Pursuant to the Brown Act, the City Council cannot discuss items not on an agenda unless under limited circumstances. The City Council has developed a process to allow individual Councilmembers to request, with the support of another Councilmember, that items be placed on a future agenda for City Council discussion. At that future meeting, the item is identified on the agenda in full compliance with the Brown Act. Discussion allows an opportunity to the public to provide input and the City Council, as a body, to decide whether City resources (staff time, etc.) should be incurred to present a more comprehensive report at a third City Council meeting.
Accordingly, individual Councilmembers can initiate future agenda items by following the following three-step process:
STEP ONE:
During "Future Agenda Items," a Councilmember may request that an item be placed on...
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