City
of Kenmore - 6700 NE 181st St - PO Box 82607, Kenmore WA 98028 - Phone:
425-398-8900 - Fax: 425-481-3236
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425-398-8900 - Fax: 425-481-3236
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| How Can Citizens Participate in Their Government? The City Council encourages citizens to express their opinions on any matter within the Council's authority. Oral presentations and written communications are both appropriate methods of expression during public meetings. Written communications also may be directed to the City Council or City Manager at City Hall. On each regular Council meeting agenda there is an item called "Public Comment". This is the time in which a person may present an issue, raise a question or concern, voice a complaint, or compliment the City. Comments may be made at this time on any subject which is not quasijudicial in nature or scheduled for a public hearing. (Quasijudicial matters are typically those which involve obtaining a legal permit for a specific development or land use for which a public hearing has previously occurred.) Speakers are asked to limit their remarks to three minutes. To participate at a City Council meeting, the speaker must step to the microphone and lectern placed in front of the Council and, after receiving recognition from the Mayor, state their name and address for the record. All remarks should be addressed to the Council as a group, not to any particular Council member or any member of the City staff or audience. Whenever
a group wishes to address the Council on a subject, the Mayor will normally
request that a spokesperson be chosen to speak for the group. Applause
or other displays of approval or disapproval are inappropriate and are
not permitted during Council meetings.
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