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Fountain Hills Council Revisits Rules of Procedure: call-to-public, time limits and media notice debated
Summary
At a Feb. 3 work session, Fountain Hills council members and the town attorney reviewed proposed edits to the town—ouncil Rules of Procedure to restore the call-to-public, set time limits for public and council remarks, clarify decorum and ask media to provide advance notice of professional recording equipment; some council members urged more deliberation and raised constitutional concerns about media preapproval.
Fountain Hills —eb. 3 work session of the Fountain Hills Town Council Tuesday focused on proposed revisions to the council—oard nd Rules of Procedure, including restoring a "call to the public," limiting public-comment time, setting initial two-minute limits for council remarks and a provision asking media to give advance notice before bringing "professional" audio or video equipment to meetings.
The town attorney, identified in the session as Wright, told council members the document was largely a cleanup of typographical and OCR errors from earlier scanned versions and that many changes were formatting moves or adaptations from Scottsdale—ity rules intended to make meetings more orderly and consistent. "We added a table of contents ... many of the changes that were suggested actually were coming from the Scottsdale's rules of procedure so we adopted many of the things that they have that are working," Wright said during her presentation.
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