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Grand Prairie council narrows public-comment windows, moves citizen comments earlier in meeting
Summary
The Grand Prairie City Council on Nov. 4 approved an ordinance changing how and when citizens may speak at meetings, moving public comment to the start of the meeting and imposing new time limits for consent and individual items.
The Grand Prairie City Council on Nov. 4 approved changes to its open-meeting rules that move citizen comments to the beginning of each meeting following the consent agenda and set new time limits for speakers. The ordinance passed 7–1.
Under the ordinance, the deadline to sign up to speak on any agenda item or for citizen comments will be the start of the meeting, before the mayor gavels it in. Speakers will get a single five minutes total to address consent-agenda items, three minutes for an…
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