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Council discusses rules on public comment, decorum and motion-to-reconsider; staff to draft revised language
Summary
Decorah’s council debated adding a three-minute public-comment guideline (with mayoral discretion), decorum language, and a mechanism to waive rules by supermajority; members also discussed changing motion-to-reconsider timing to allow items to be revisited after subsequent city elections.
City staff and council members spent an extended portion of the meeting reviewing proposed amendments to council rules and procedures, focusing on public-comment time limits, speaker decorum, the motion-to-reconsider rule, and a possible waiver mechanism.
Staff described suggested language that would state each person “shall be given approximately three minutes” during public comment but allow the mayor to shorten time when many speakers are expected. “If you adopt it as hard and fast…
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