Davis County staff propose ordinance to formalize rules of order, public‑comment limits and electronic‑meeting policy

County staff presented a draft ordinance during a Davis County work session that would consolidate the commission’s rules of order, put an existing electronic‑meetings policy into ordinance form and create mechanisms such as a consent calendar to streamline routine business. Staff said the change pulls scattered procedures and a prior resolution into a single document.

The draft makes several substantive changes to meeting procedures. It affirms that "each commissioner has the right to speak," while giving the chair limited authority to organize discussion "if necessary to keep order and to conduct the meeting efficiently," staff said. The wording, presented as conditional, drew back‑and‑forth from commissioners who said they wanted to preserve informal debate…