City/County Survey - Public Comment/Oral Communications Periods City
Limit Per
Speaker
(Min) Requirements
Anaheim 3
Two public comment periods. First period is a total of 90 minutes or until all agenda comments are heard.
Non-agenda items are allowed after agenda items during the first 90-minute period of oral communications or at the end of the meeting
Burbank Varies
4 public comment periods: Closed Session, General Public Comment, Public Hearing Public Comment and Study Session Public Comment. General Public Comment precedes the consent calendar and the Reports to Council calendar (which is the Burbank equivalent of Glendale’s Action calendar). Speakers may speak on non-agenda items and/or agenda items during General Public Comment. Speakers also may separately speak on Reports to Council items (Action) after the oral staff report but before deliberation, provided they did not speak on the item during General Public Comment.
Speaking time on established on a sliding scale based on the number of speakers for each period:
1-20 Speakers – 3 minutes each
21-39 Speakers – 2 minutes each
40+ Speakers – 1 minute each
Culver City 3
Public comment for non-agenda items is limited to 20 minutes, but a continuation is added at the end of the agenda if needed. Comments on agenda items taken at time of presentation and registration is required. 3 minutes max time per speaker may be reduced at mayor’s discretion to reduced minutes to allow enough time to cover the business on the agenda. At Mayor’s discretion, there may be an allotted maximum time limit for speakers per agenda item (i.e. one hour) to allow City Council adequate time for deliberation.
Ceding of time: Persons who are present in the meeting may cede one minute of time to one other person per agenda item.
Garden
Grove 3
Council may limit public input based on number of people requesting to speak, length of the agenda, or business of the Council. Mayor may request one spokesperson for large groups to avoid unnecessary repetition.
Huntington
Beach 3
One public comment period at beginning of meeting, speaking time reduced depending on number of speakers. Public comment cards are accepted until the commencement of the comment period.
Inglewood 3
Two public comment periods, first on agenda items, last (end of meeting) on non-agenda items. Council members limited to 10 minutes each under Council Initiatives, 3 minutes each for closing remarks, and 5 minutes each for general debate on any agenda item.
Irvine 3 General public comment for non-agendized items, agenda item comment public comments continue at end of meeting.
City of Los
Angeles
Non-agenda items (“General Public Comment): 1 minute each (L.A. City Council meets 3 times per week).
Agenda items: One item: 1 minute.
Multiple Agenda Items: A member of the public speaking on more than one agenda item shall be allowed to speak for up to one minute per item up to a total of three minutes per meeting.
Los Angeles
County BOS 3 3 minutes per meeting on agenda items and 3 minutes per meeting on non-agenda items.
Pasadena 3
Comment periods: First - non-agenda items , limited to 20 minutes at the beginning of the meeting and continued thereafter to the end of meeting;. Second - consent calendar items. Third - multiple agenda items. Fourth - each agenda item.
Riverside 3
Multiple comment periods. Afternoon and evening sessions. Public comment on closed session, consent calendar as a whole, and agenda discussion items (action) and non-agenda items limited to three minutes.
Council reserves the right to determine the total amount for public comment and the amount for individual speakers.
San Diego
County
Board of
Supervisors Varies
(1) Matters Not on Consent Calendar up to two (2) minutes. If there are 10 or more speakers wishing to speak on an agenda item, the Chairperson may limit all individuals to speak for up to one (1) minute. (2) Consent calendar Each speaker is allowed two (2) minutes to comment on the entire Consent Calendar.
(3) Non-Agenda Public Communication: Twenty (20) minutes scheduled at the beginning of meeting for members of the public to address the Board, each speaker to be allowed no more than two minutes, on any subject matter within the jurisdiction of the Board and which is not an item on the agenda for that session. Each speaker must file with the Clerk a written Non-Agenda Public Communication Request to Speak form prior to the scheduled opening time of the session. In the event that more than ten (10) individuals request to address the Board (five individuals requesting to speak in person, five individuals requesting to speak remotely, the first ten (10) will be heard at the beginning of the meeting. The remaining speakers will be heard at the conclusion of the meeting and granted two (2) minutes each. The Chairperson shall have discretion to allow more than ten (10) individuals to speak at the beginning of the session. Each speaker must file with the Clerk a written Non-Agenda Public Communication Request to Speak form prior to the scheduled opening time of the meeting Santa Ana 3
General public comment at beginning of meeting includes agenda items and non-agenda items. Public comment cards are accepted until the commencement of the comment period.
Santa
Clarita 3
A public comment period is conducted for non-agenda items (30 -minute limit, 10 speakers), cards must be submitted before period begins. Remaining speakers after 30 minutes can be heard at end of meeting.
Additionally, public comments are taken prior to the start of each agenda item.
Santa
Monica 2 or 1
Remarks from the public are limited to a total of 6 minutes per Council meeting per individual with maximum two minutes and minimum one minute per public comment section.
Torrance 3
Two Oral Communications, speakers can only participate in #1 or #2. Oral Communications #2 is limited to 30 minutes, 3 minutes per speaker for non-Council Agenda items. Public can comment on agenda items before the item is discussed.
West
Hollywood 2
Public comments may address items on Consent Calendar (20 minutes, 2 min per speaker), all other comments will be heard at the time the item is considered during the meeting. A second public comment occurs at the end of the meeting for non-agenda items. Speakers can only speak once.