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Germantown committee votes to forward ordinance limiting trustee virtual appearances and stopping read-aloud of emailed comments
Summary
The committee agreed to send a proposed Chapter 2 ordinance to the village board with recommendations to limit trustees' Webex/virtual attendance (suggested two meetings per year) and to stop reading written email comments aloud at meetings while keeping them in the record; trustees split on the trade-offs between public access and meeting efficiency.
Attorney Sajak presented proposed amendments to Chapter 2 of the municipal code that would codify pre-COVID practices on electronic attendance and public comments. The central recommendations forwarded by the committee to the village board were: restrict trustee virtual appearances to a limited number per calendar year (the committee recommended up to two), and discontinue reading written/email public comments aloud during meetings while still incorporating those…
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