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Commissioner to seek resolution clarifying public-comment rules for workshops under Tennessee law
Summary
Commissioner Shaver told the Loudon County Commission he would ask that a resolution be placed on the next meeting agenda to clarify public-comment rules for workshops, proposing a three-minute limit and reserving time for nonagenda comments while citing attorney guidance on state law.
Commissioner Shaver told the Loudon County Commission at its Sept. 15 workshop that he will ask for a resolution at the next formal meeting to clarify how the county handles public comment at workshops under recent state law.
Shaver said the state law requires public comments at public meetings to be germane to the agenda at formal meetings and that workshops—if truly nonactionable—are treated differently in the statute. He said county attorney Bob Bowman…
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