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Sullivan County Legislature adopts three-minute public-comment limit; residents press for fuller input
Summary
The Sullivan County Legislature narrowed public-comment time to three minutes and clarified meeting decorum; several residents and advocates told the Legislature the limit stifles public participation and urged action on housing and county care-center staffing.
The Sullivan County Legislature voted to adopt a three-minute time limit for public comment and a set of meeting-decorum rules, the body’s chair said at the start of the session. The chair told members she would read each resolution and then ask for a motion so the meeting pace would be slowed and orderly.
The new rules require speakers to be recognized by the chair, confine remarks to issues immediately before the body, limit members to two speaking turns on a motion, require remarks be addressed to the chair rather than to other…
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