text: If anyone or group wishes to appear and speak to the Commissioners Council or Committee meetings these are the procedures as we currently understand them:
  Appointments to present a deputation to the Council or a Committee have to have permission of the chair of the council or committee via the council officers
  However, as many gatherings of this governments ECan commissioners are not strictly speaking meetings, as defined under the Local Government Act, but rather briefings or workshops we feel you could try notifying the ECan committee secretary that you want to present a petition at the most appropriate upcoming ‘meeting’ of your choice.
  Deputations are normally required to give 2 clear working days notice to the committee secretary* of:
  that it does not relate to a metter on the agenda or previous minutes but should be matter of interest to the ‘Council’; or
  ECan meeting rules for: how many people can present, duration of presentation, language, respect etc can be found in ECans standing orders section 3.19. See below to download these.
  Sometimes a council or committee agenda is not available until 2 working days or less before the meeting and this can impede your ability to give correct notice of a deputation on a matter on the agenda. Things you could do to in response:
  note that the 2 working days notice has not been possible to give due to late posting or receipt of the agenda
  note in writing the date at which the agenda was received and the date/time you sent in your deputation appearance notice.
  ask for ECan to acknowledge receipt of your notice or set your email to return to you a read notice from the receipent.
  Download ECan Standing Orders (rules for how the Council runs its meetings, correct as at Nov 2007): HERE (pdf 270KB)
  Michael Cohen is a Systems Administrator who provides data infrastructure support and validation, client software installation and operations support, database archive management, and general computer user account management and support.