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Chino Hills council restores flexible public comment time limits; adopts sliding 1/2/3-minute scale
Summary
The City Council voted 5-0 to adopt a sliding scale for public comments on non-agendized items: up to 3 minutes when few speakers attend, scaling down to 2 minutes or 1 minute as speaker counts rise; staff will publish the updated policy and enforce timers and microphone shutoffs.
The Chino Hills City Council voted unanimously (5-0) to update its administrative policy on public comment time limits for non-agendized items. Under the adopted option (referred to in staff materials as option C), speakers on non-agendized items will receive 3, 2 or 1 minutes depending on the number of speaker cards received, with the council keeping a target maximum public comment period of 30 minutes.
City Manager Montgomery and staff presented four options: a…
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