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Council clarifies meeting rules: restores 3‑minute public comment to boards, delays visual aids and keeps Roberts rules for commissions
Summary
After public comment and staff briefing, the council voted to apply a three‑minute public‑comment limit to subsidiary boards and commissions, to prohibit live visual aids for now, and to retain Robert's Rules (with planned training) rather than adopt Rosenberg's Rules for boards and commissions.
The Hermosa Beach City Council on Sept. 9 revised several meeting‑procedure rules for subsidiary boards and commissions, voting to restore a three‑minute public comment limit and to delay or prohibit the use of live visual aids while staff develops a formal audiovisual policy. The council also voted to keep Robert's Rules of Order for boards and commissions rather than adopt Rosenberg's Rules, and directed staff to provide training materials for commissioners.
City Clerk's staff briefed the council on three staff recommendations: (1) apply the city council’s rules for public comment — including a three‑minute limit per speaker and elimination of a…
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