Public Communications: In order to participate, each speaker must complete and submit to the Recording Secretary a Request to Speak form prior to the beginning of the item being announced by the Chair. Each speaker is limited to three (3) minutes, speakers may surrender their time by deferring one (1) minute to another in-person speaker, not to exceed a total of eight (8) minutes. The speaker wishing to defer time must be present when the item is heard and their form must be submitted with the speaker form for the individual they are deferring time to. Speakers are taken in the order slips are submitted. Members of the public are encouraged to submit email correspondence to cityclerk@malibucity.org before the meeting begins.