Council adopts time limits for presentations and staff testimony, 4-1

The Brooksville City Council adopted Resolution 2025-07, 4-1, establishing time limits and procedures for hearings and presentations at city meetings, including a 15-minute uninterrupted presentation cap and a reciprocal 15-minute limit for city staff.

City Attorney presented the revised resolution, which the attorney said had been updated after an April 28 meeting. The two substantive changes for the current draft were to apply the 15-minute limit equally to city staff and to make the 15 minutes uninterrupted; council members’ questions would be held until the presentation concluded. "Under this framework, the city council will hold all questions until the conclusion of that presentation," the attorney explained.

Council discussion indicated general support for the changes; on roll call the resolution passed with four votes in favor and one opposed (Vice Mayor Bronson). The vice mayor did not identify the specific legal concern on the record at the time of the vote.

Councilmembers said the time restriction was intended to streamline meetings and ensure due-process protections were preserved. The resolution includes severability language and becomes effective immediately as a meeting-procedure directive.

The measure was a revision of an earlier version considered by the council; staff and the attorney said the changes addressed feedback from the prior meeting and ensured parity between members of the public and city staff presenting to the council.

The resolution was adopted 4-1; details of enforcement (for example, a visible timer requested by one councilmember) were discussed as a next-step item for staff to research.