All are welcome! To help you enjoy your visit, we remind everyone of the responsibility to use City facilities and participate in public meetings in a manner that does not:
- interfere with the rights of other individuals to access or use City materials, resources, and services;
- limit the ability of City staff to conduct City business; and
- threaten the secure and comfortable environment of City facilities.
Participating remotely in public meetings
Participating remotely in public meetings
- To be admitted to the meeting, please make sure your name matches the name you used to sign up to speak under Public Comment. Zoom participants whose names do not match will remain in the waiting room.
- Make sure your microphone is muted and your camera is off until you are admitted to the meeting and are called upon by name to speak.
- Once you have spoken for the allotted time, you will be moved back to the waiting room. You can watch the rest of the meeting on YouTube.
- Remote participant(s) who disrupt the meeting will be muted and moved to the waiting room and/or removed from the meeting if the disruption continues.
- If you have not signed up to speak, you can watch the meeting on YouTube.
Prohibited activities in City facilities
Prohibited activities in City facilities
To promote the safety and well-being of all visitors and staff, and to protect resources, equipment, and facilities, these activities are prohibited:
- Use of public restrooms for bathing, shaving, washing hair, changing clothes in plain view of others, or other inappropriate activities.
- Sleeping in public spaces.
- Having offensive hygiene, odor, or scent that constitutes a nuisance to other persons.
- Behaving in a loud, boisterous, offensive, indecent, or disruptive manner; willfully annoying, harassing, intimidating, or threatening another person; using abusive or threatening language or gestures; fighting or threatening to fight; running; pushing; shoving; or throwing things.
- Remaining in the building after closing.
- Leaving children unattended.
- Impeding access to the building or an area of the building or blocking passageways, doorways, or aisles.
- Damaging the building, furnishings, or equipment; moving or tampering with tables, chairs, equipment, or other furniture.
- Bringing non-service animals into the building.
- Leaving unattended personal items in the building. City staff will not guard personal items for patrons. The City assumes no responsibility for lost or stolen items. Unattended items may be removed from the premises without notice.
- Entering non-public areas unless accompanied by a staff member.
- Soliciting, campaigning, fundraising, or selling unless allowed pursuant to an executed rental agreement with the City of Albany.
- Posting notices, posters, or flyers in City Hall unless authorized by the City Manager’s Office.
- Visitors who engage in prohibited activities or repeated misconduct may be asked to leave the premises or may be removed by the Albany Police Department.
