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Lacey advisory board highlights new public-comment rules after 2024 disruptions; approves agenda and minutes
Summary
The Lehi 1 Board of the City of Lacey on Jan. 9 reviewed updates to the advisory board handbook that add public-comment, public-hearing and meeting-disruption guidelines after disruptive remote comments in 2024. The board also unanimously approved the meeting agenda and minutes and heard a single reimbursement claim for $761.16.
The Lehi 1 Board of the City of Lacey reviewed updates to its advisory board handbook regarding public comment, public hearings and meeting disruptions and unanimously approved the meeting agenda and minutes at its Jan. 9 meeting.
Alyssa, a City of Lacey staff member, told the board the handbook changes were prompted after “a group of individuals providing public comment remotely made a series of discriminatory and hateful public comments during an advisory board meeting” in early 2024. She said the city council subsequently adopted resolutions updating council policies and the advisory board handbook and that the handbook now includes chapters on public comment, public hearings and meeting disruptions.
“So public comment is…
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