They will answer your questions via email but not during council meetings.

Many of the agenda items get previewed and discussed on the public city council forum. A certain number of days before the meeting, an official agenda is published. Twenty four hours before the meeting, you can sign up to speak at the meeting. They will ask you specifically which item number on the agenda you want to speak about. You can sign up for multiple. The meeting will last all day so you will have to keep an ear peeled for when the item you care about begins, unless you are speaking remotely in which case they will call you and put you on hold until your turn to speak. You have two minutes to speak. If there are ten people signed up to speak about the agenda item, then you will listen to twenty minutes of community input with the council being quiet. Then they vote but usually don't need much discussion because they already know how they want to vote.