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Committee rejects same-day agenda change to reinstate public comment
Summary
A motion to amend the Audit & Finance meeting agenda to add discussion about bringing back public comment failed on a 3–3 vote at the April 24 special meeting; proponents said the charter allows the addition but opponents said the change was irregular without prior notice.
During the Audit & Finance special meeting on April 24, a trustee moved to amend the meeting agenda to add, under other business, discussion about bringing back public comment and to limit trustees’ post-comment questions to two minutes. The motion drew immediate objections from committee members who said adding the item without prior notice was irregular.
“ My my objection is this is completely blindsiding me. I I find this very irregular that Mister Grabowski would just throw this out here without any discussion with me at all,” one committee member said, opposing the amendment.
Supporters said the charter permits adding public comment as an agenda item and that because the committee was already convened it was a simple addition. The chair called for a vote. The motion failed on a tie; the transcript records the outcome as 3–3, so the amendment did not pass and the committee continued with the posted agenda.
The committee discussed scheduling of regular audit & finance meetings and whether a special May meeting might be appropriate to allow more time for budget review prior to second reading, but the immediate agenda amendment to reinstate public comment was not adopted.
The transcript does not show a formal roll call of each member’s vote in the record included here; committee members on the call discussed next steps for scheduling and trustee briefings.
