Cupertino市政厅SCA5特别会议—参与指南
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要溫和有禮。 會議開始是Staff report about their research on SCA-5, Then, the council members will ask questions. After staff answers all council members' question, Cupertino Mayor will open the meeting for public comment. You need to fill out a "speaker card" before the mayor open the meeting for public comment. The speaker card is located in the front of the council meeting table, at the right hand side when you face the council meeting table. The mayor will announce the rule for public comment and call the speakers in the order received. When the Mayor call your name, you will walk to the center podium and make your speech. You need to finish your speech within the time limit. If you don't finish your speech within the time limit, the mayor may cut you off. It will not look good in TV.
If you have a group, you can collect their speaker cards and bundle them together and request to speak under group presentation. An individual generally has 3 minutes, a group can have 10 minutes. However, if there are many speakers, the mayor may cut the speaking time short, 2 minutes for individual and 7 minutes for group. You can ask your friends to attend the meeting or your friends in the meeting to fill the speaker cards and give the cards to you.
The police will be there to maintain the order. If there is disturbance, the police will remove the person causing problem. In the past five years, I have not seen anyone 被架出去yet. So, don't be the first one, please.
美國政治叫elected official "honorable". When you come up to the podium, first you say "Honorable Mayor and council members, my name is so and so. I want to thank you for putting California State Constitution Amendment # 5 on your agenda....
If you are a long term Cupertino resident, please say "I am a long term Cupertino Resident for x years ...". If you are not, please skip it. If you are a voter, please say so. Especially, if you voted every time in the past. Please remember that the whole meeting is televised. You can youtube your good presentation to broadcast it to the world . Thank
如果你認為 State Senator EH 的 數據不對， 你可以用你的資料放上slides or power points 去反駁他。 你也可以把你們掃街， 簽名 的資料擺出來。 不只是給庫市議員看， 還可以傳給很多人看。
Public comment人数没有限制，只要你第卡片报名上去，他们得听完。曾经有会议从下午一直开到半夜，不要担心人多，我们需要更多的人上台来讲，可以事先写好讲稿带上。
总结一下，1 Be fully respectful; 2 take moral high ground, not seemly selfish argument; 3 简短，按时；4 you have to prepare yourself a bit!
本指南完全根据微信群讨论编辑总结而成，感谢参与讨论的所有人，特别是有从政经验的朋友的建议！请大家好好准备，能参加的都去讲！加油！！！
