City Council
Mayor Diana Gardner Rich
Vice Mayor Stephen Zollman
Councilmember Neysa Hinton
Councilmember Sandra Maurer
Councilmember Jill McLewis
City Manager
Don Schwartz
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Assistant City Manager/City Clerk, MMC
Mary Gourley
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CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA
Special Meeting of Tuesday – June 4, 2024
9:00 am – Meeting Start Time
Meeting to be held in Person Only
Meeting will be video-taped and posted after the Special Meeting (Interviews).
CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
SALUTE TO THE FLAG
INTERVIEWS:
The following interviews will be conducted at this special meeting: Interviewees will be asked to wait in the waiting area of the Youth Annex until it is their scheduled interview time and then they will be admitted into the Council chambers.
1. 9:15 am Colantuono Highsmith Whatley, PC
2. 10:30 am Redwood Public Law
3. 11:45 am Adams, Silva, and McNally LLP
4. 1:15 pm Prentice Long
There will be no action taken at this meeting. Discussion and Action of Item will be conducted at a future City Council Meeting.
ADJOURNMENT OF CITY COUNCIL MEETING
June 4, 2024 City Council Special Meeting will be adjourned to the City Council Regular Meeting of Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 6:00 pm, Sebastopol Youth Annex, 425 Morris Street.
American Disability Act Accommodations/Accessibility: A request can be made orally or in writing, and submitted to the ADA Coordinator by email: [email protected] or to the City Clerk’s Office so as to avoid delay in reviewing and processing the request. Requests can be made by contacting the ADA Coordinator’s Office at (707) 823-8597, via email at [email protected] or by mailing such a request to the ADA Coordinator’s Office located at 7425 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol, CA. Note that if you contact the ADA Coordinators Office, via mail, you need to make the request early enough that a response can be timely provided.
If you have any questions regarding this meeting, please contact the City at Email: [email protected] or [email protected] or please call: 707-823-1153. The public is advised that pursuant to Government Code section 54957.5 all writings submitted to the City Council are public records and will be made available for review. The Sebastopol City Council welcomes you in person or remotely to its meetings that are generally scheduled for the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month. Your interest and participation are encouraged and appreciated.
COUNCIL PROTOCOLS FOR MEETING:
Please Note the presiding member of the legislative body conducting a meeting or their designee may remove, or cause the removal of, an individual for disrupting the meeting.
Prior to removing an individual, the presiding member or their designee shall warn the individual that their behavior is disrupting the meeting and that their failure to cease their behavior may result in their removal. The presiding member or their designee may then remove the individual if they do not promptly cease their disruptive behavior. This paragraph does not apply to any behavior described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b).
(b) As used in this section:
(1) “Disrupting” means engaging in behavior during a meeting of a legislative body that actually disrupts, disturbs, impedes, or renders infeasible the orderly conduct of the meeting and includes, but is not limited to, one of the following:
(A) A failure to comply with reasonable and lawful regulations adopted by a legislative body pursuant to Section 54954.3 or any other law.
(B) Engaging in behavior that constitutes use of force or a true threat of force. (2) “True threat of force” means a threat that has sufficient indicia of intent and seriousness, that a reasonable observer would perceive it to be an actual threat to use force by the person making the threat.