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Procedure: Guidelines for Public Testimony

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110 sec

This short segment outlines the procedure for public members participating in the hearing.

It mentions the transition to public testimony, guiding participants on how to proceed, including the use of microphones, the 2-minute testimony rule, and the focus on relevant bills. Council members are advised to save their questions until after the panel's testimonies.

Speaker 1
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We are now going to move.
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We've got a lot of members from the public, which is we always love to see.
0:48:54
So we are going to move now to public testimony.
Speaker 2
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Thank you.
0:49:04
We'll give the administration an opportunity to collect their things, and then we'll turn to public testimony.
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If you are here in person, please come up and take a seat at the table when you hear your name.
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And you may begin once this has notified you that time has started, you can push the red button on the microphone when your time starts.
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You will have 2 minutes to testify.
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Your testimony must be on topic and pertaining to one of the 11 bills we're hearing today.
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Council members who have questions for a particular panel should let me know, and I will call you after the panelist has completed their testimony.
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The first panel will be in person.
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It will be Karina Kaufman Gutierrez.
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Mohammed Awad, Mohammed Atia, and Ahmed Hussein.
Speaker 1
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Yeah.
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And in order to make this as orderly and expeditious as possible, we're gonna have each member, the public's for their 2 minutes, and I'm gonna ask members to hold their questions until the end of the panel.
0:50:29
Thank you.
Speaker 19
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Amazon.
0:50:39
Alright.
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