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Trainer tells Centennial P&Z: follow written rules to keep meetings fair and defensible

2967454 · April 9, 2025
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Summary

Attorney and author Mr. Weiner gave a roughly 40-minute training on his book Bob's Rules of Order, urging the Planning & Zoning Commission to adopt clear, consistent procedures for fairness, efficiency and legal defensibility.

Mr. Weiner, a presenter and author, gave the commission a training session on parliamentary procedure and argued for written, local rules that reflect the commission’s needs.

Weiner said he wrote “a book I wrote actually, over the last 20 years called Bob's Rules of Order,” a simplified set of meeting procedures meant for Colorado municipalities, and walked commissioners through key differences between those rules and traditional Robert’s Rules of Order.

Weiner told the Commission that…

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