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Norwood committee debates adding contact field to speaker form and cutting public-comment time
Summary
Committee members discussed adding optional contact fields to the 'request to address council' form and considered reducing public-comment allotments (from five minutes to three) to improve meeting efficiency; any change to public-comment time would require law-committee review.
Norwood’s Committee of the Whole discussed potential changes to the public-comment process: adding an optional contact-information field to the city’s “request to address council” form and reducing the default time allotment for speakers.
A council member proposed adding language to the speaker form such as: “If you would like to be contacted by a…
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