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Board debates public-comment time limits and meeting order; chair discretion and security language proposed
Summary
Board attorney Brett Steger presented clarifying language for speaker protocol and asked the board whether to allow three minutes per agenda item plus three for general comment or a single three-minute allotment; members split and asked for both drafts to be prepared for the next meeting.
Board attorney Brett Steger led a lengthy discussion of proposed speaker-protocol changes at the Nassau County School Board’s Nov. 10 meeting, asking members to choose whether public speakers should receive three minutes for each agenda item plus three minutes for general comment, or three minutes total to cover agenda and non-agenda matters.
Steger said the current draft (section 2b) is ambiguous about whether agenda-item comments and general public comment are separate categories. ‘‘Each speaker is allotted 3 minutes for comments,’’ he said while pointing to…
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