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Wausau council debates public-comment wording and signage rules; staff to research personnel-identification restriction
Summary
Council members discussed a proposed City of Wausau public-comment statement and whether it should bar naming or identifying specific personnel; members agreed to seek further research on the issue and to remove an outright signage prohibition from the rules.
The Wausau Common Council reviewed proposed language for a City of Wausau public-comment statement and discussed decorum rules for meetings, including whether the public should be barred from identifying specific personnel during comments and whether signage should be restricted.
Alder Killian pushed back on a draft sentence that would prevent members of the public from identifying specific personnel by name. "I think as you look around the country, I think, 1 of the things about our democracy is that we protect the freedom of speech," Killian said, arguing that citizens…
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