Standing Rules and Orders of Council
Rule 80: Adjourning meetings in event of grave disorder
If there is grave disorder, the Speaker (or the councillor chairing a committee) can adjourn the meeting or suspend proceedings for as long as they think necessary. In the passage shown, the Speaker used it to adjourn a council meeting, so an agenda item on a department's performance assessment report was not considered.
Plain-English summary written with AI from how the City's minutes quote and use the rule. The official text is not published by the City.
The rule's own words
In the event of grave disorder in the Council or at a meeting of a Committee, the Councillor presiding over the Council or the Councillor chairing the Committee meeting may adjourn the meeting or suspend proceedings for such a period as he or she deems necessary.
As quoted in the City's signed minutes.
How the minutes record it
The Speaker invoked Rule 80 of the Standing Rules and Orders of Council and adjourned the meeting before this item could be considered. Rule 80 states: “In the event of grave disorder in the Council or at a meeting of a Committee, the Councillor presiding over the Council or the Councillor chairing the Committee meeting may adjourn the meeting or suspend proceedings for such a period as he or she deems necessary.”
Signed minutes, Thursday, 27 February 2025