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Council votes to reinstate time limits on public comment pending legal review
5417795 · July 14, 2025
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Summary
Following a state legislative change that expanded who may speak at public meetings, the Committee of the Whole voted to temporarily set public-comment time at 3 minutes per speaker with a 30-minute total cap while staff provides a legal memo next week.
The Committee of the Whole reviewed a required update to the city’s citizen-comment policy following changes enacted by the North Dakota Legislature. The law change expands who may speak at public meetings; staff asked whether the council wanted to set speaker time limits and total public-comment…
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