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City attorney prompts re-opening of consent calendar after public-comment oversight
Summary
During the consent-calendar vote the city attorney on Zoom said public comment had not been opened for the consent item; the chair re-opened the consent motion, asked for public comment and then re-voted to adopt the consent calendar.
During an early consent-calendar vote, a city attorney on Zoom raised a procedural concern to the commission: public comment had not been opened for the consent item. The attorney recommended the chair reopen the consent-item hearing to solicit public comment and reconsider the existing motion; the chair followed that advice and the commissioners restarted the consent motion and re-voted to adopt the consent calendar.
The exchange occurred before the public hearing and led the commission to re-run the procedural steps for the consent calendar to ensure public-comment procedures were observed. The point was procedural—no change to substantive consent items was recorded and the consent calendar was ultimately adopted.
