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Committee sends bill to amend school board public-comment limits to amendment order
Summary
The committee voted to send Senate Bill 1007 to the fourteenth order for possible amendment after hearing competing testimony on whether statute should permit patrons to comment on matters not on a posted agenda.
BOISE — The Idaho Senate Education Committee voted to send Senate Bill 1007 to the fourteenth order for possible amendments after a lengthy hearing that split testimony between parents and local board members who want broader public-comment access and the Idaho School Boards Association, which argued the current, narrower rule protects board business and legal processes.
Senator Cindy Carlson (District 7) introduced the bill as a cleanup measure to remove a sentence added last year that says ‘‘Public comment shall be limited to items listed on the meeting agenda.’’ Carlson said some districts are interpreting the current law to prohibit nearly any public comment that is not on the posted agenda, restricting patrons from raising issues that are not slated…
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