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interest in the matters in question, the length of the meeting and the need to <br />provide for an orderly and effective meeting. As a means of limiting time <br />while maximizing the public's opportunity to address the council, if a group of <br />people seeks to address the council on the same matter or topic, the <br />presiding officer may direct the group to designate a spokesperson or limited <br />number of speakers to address the city council. <br />(g) The primary purpose of oral communications is to allow the public the <br />opportunity to formally communicate with the city council as a whole, for <br />matters that cannot be handled during the regular working hours of the city <br />government. Each person who addresses the city council shall do so in an <br />orderly manner and shall not make personal, impertinent, slanderous or <br />profane remarks to any member of the city council, city staff or the general <br />public. Any person who makes such remarks, or who utters loud, <br />threatening, personal or abusive language, or engages in any other <br />disorderly conduct which disrupts, disturbs or otherwise impedes the orderly <br />conduct of any City Council meeting shall, at the discretion of the presiding <br />officer be barred from speaking further and may be ejected from the <br />meeting. The following rules shall apply to all persons addressing the city <br />council: <br />1. Direct all testimony to the city council or the presiding officer and <br />not the individual council members, <br />2. No person shall address or question a city council member, the City <br />Attorney, the City Manager, the Clerk of the Council or other official <br />without the prior consent of the presiding officer, <br />3. When speaking on agenda matters, limit comments to the agenda <br />item(s), <br />4. When speaking on non - agenda matters, limit comments to matters <br />within the jurisdiction or official business of the City of Santa Ana, <br />and <br />5. Refrain from profane language, racial epitaphs, libelous or <br />slanderous statements that disturb the decorum of the meeting. <br />(h) No person in the audience at a council meeting shall engage in disorderly <br />or boisterous conduct, including the utterance of loud, threatening or <br />abusive language, whistling, applauding, stamping of feet or other acts <br />which disturb, disrupt or otherwise impede the orderly conduct of any <br />council meeting. Any person who repeatedly conducts himself in the <br />aforementioned manner following a warning from the presiding officer <br />Ordinance No. NS -XXX <br />Page 4 of 7 50A -1 6 <br />