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Alexander City council adopts on-the-spot public-comment option for agenda items
Summary
At its Nov. 6 meeting the Alexander City Council adopted a new rule allowing members of the public to speak for up to three minutes about items on the agenda before votes, a change officials said was intended to increase transparency and allow voices earlier in the process.
The Alexander City Council on Nov. 6 introduced a new public-comment procedure allowing speakers to address agenda items for three minutes before council votes.
“ If there's something on the agenda you wanna speak about. We'll give you 3 minutes,” Unidentified Speaker 1 said while introducing the change, saying the council…
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