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Board amends public-comment rules; bars members of the public from pulling consent items
Summary
Trustees voted 5–2 to restore options for public comment on agenda items and non-agenda items while striking proposed language that would have allowed members of the public to remove items from the consent agenda; trustees debated privacy and procedure concerns.
The Lyon County School District Board on Wednesday approved changes to Board Policy BDD that restore broader public-comment options while removing a proposed allowance letting individual members of the public pull items from the consent agenda.
Trustee Bridget Peterson moved to keep the proposed additions allowing public comment at the start of meetings and on agenda items, and to strike any language permitting members of the public to request removal of consent-agenda items; Trustee Farr seconded. The motion passed 5–2.
Trustees said the change expands…
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