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City manager: state law allows removing public comment from committee agendas
Summary
City Manager Brian Latta told the Dallas Urban Renewal Advisory Committee that state law does not require committees to allow public comment, and the city has removed a standing public-comment item from most committee agendas to make procedures uniform.
Chair Rody opened the meeting by asking whether the agenda still included a public-comment item and whether that had been removed. Brian Latta, the city manager, said the item had been removed from most committee agendas and explained the legal and procedural basis.
"State law doesn't require it—it requires meetings like this to be public, you know, made available to the…
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