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Pataskala Council adopts rules of order amendments limiting end-of-meeting comments and clarifying ordinance subject limits
Summary
Council approved amendments to its rules of order clarifying public comment timing (5 minutes at start; end-of-meeting comments limited to topics the council has discussed) and restricting ordinances to a single subject except for 'supplementals'.
Pataskala City Council adopted amendments to its rules of order that clarify public comment timing and the allowable subject matter of ordinances.
Speaker 3, identified in the record as the administrator, summarized the two main changes: Section 9 clarifies that citizens speaking at the start of the meeting may have up to five minutes, while historically end-of-meeting comments have been limited to three minutes and should be limited to topics the council has already discussed. Section 11 was revised to emphasize that ordinances may contain only a single subject; supplementals are the exception and may contain multiple subjects, the administrator said.
A council member moved to adopt the proposed amendments to sections 9 and 11; the motion was seconded (the record shows a second by mister Galick) and the council approved the changes by roll-call vote. The transcript records affirmative roll-call responses from members present and the motion passed. The approval followed earlier discussion noting mainly scrivener corrections elsewhere in the rules.
The adopted changes update the council’s internal procedures for public comment and the structuring of ordinances going forward.
