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Community Board 11 adopts bylaws changes limiting elected-official response time and clarifying gallery rules
Summary
The board approved three bylaws amendments clarifying a 2-minute uninterrupted gallery speaking period, allowing physically present unregistered speakers priority over remote unregistered speakers, and capping elected officials' responses to board questions at 10 minutes; the package passed with one member opposed on the response-time item and one abstention on the gallery-time item.
On Nov. 20, Bronx Community Board 11 voted on three bylaws and ethics amendments proposed by the bylaws committee.
The first change clarified that gallery-session speakers receive an initial two minutes of uninterrupted speaking time at both full board and…
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