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Waller County shortens public comment, allows grouped agenda votes in procedural update
Summary
The commissioners adopted changes to meeting rules that formalize a 3-minute public comment limit, clarify presiding-officer selection when the county judge is absent, and permit the court to approve multiple discussion items in a single motion while preserving any member's right to pull items.
Waller County Commissioners on Wednesday approved an amendment to their rules of procedure, conduct and decorum that formalizes existing practices and gives the court an option to speed routine business.
Robert, a county staff member who presented the changes, said the prior rules allowed five minutes per public speaker but the court already practiced a three-minute limit. "The 2 items that you already practice are, we're we're putting in there that it is 3 minutes per public…
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