DECORUM POLICY: The City of Deltona has a significant interest in conducting orderly and efficient
public meetings, which includes preventing disruption, promoting civility, and preserving decorum. To
that end, behavior which disrupts or impedes the efficient and orderly conduct of any public meeting, as
determined by the Mayor, or presiding officer, or a majority of the City Commission, is not permitted.
The Mayor, or presiding officer, or a majority of the City Commission, may interrupt, warn, or terminate
a speaker’s statement when that statement is too lengthy, personally directed, abusive, obscene,
irrelevant, or otherwise reasonably perceived to be a disruption to the fair and orderly progress of the
discussion at hand. The Mayor, or presiding officer, or a majority of the City Commission, may also
interrupt any part of the meeting to warn any individual that they are being disruptive or otherwise
impeding the efficient and orderly conduct of the meeting. The Mayor, or presiding officer, or a majority
of the City Commission, may require any individual to leave a public meeting for its duration if that
individual is unable to observe this Policy after being warned. Should an individual be required to leave a
meeting for violating this Policy, that person shall be escorted from Commission Chambers by a
Volusia Sheriff’s Deputy.
PUBLIC COMMENTS: Time permitted, public comments shall be limited to items on the agenda and
shall not exceed two minutes. Please be courteous and respectful of the views of others. Personal
attacks on Commission members, City staff or members of the public are not allowed, and will be ruled
out of order by the Mayor.
