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Rules committee recommends ordinance to consolidate public participation rules, add 3-minute speaker limit for public hearings
Summary
The City of Lee's Summit Rules Committee voted to recommend an ordinance that consolidates public comment, public hearing and video-conferencing rules into a single code section and adds a three-minute limit for individual public-hearing speakers; committee members also discussed an overall cap on hearing time and chair discretion for group representation.
The Lee's Summit Rules Committee voted unanimously to recommend to the full City Council an ordinance that consolidates the city's public comment, public hearing and video-conferencing rules into a single "public participation in meetings" code section and adds a hard time limit for individual speakers at public hearings.
City Attorney Brian Head told the committee he moved language from three separate places in the code (current section 2-45, rule 13 of 2-49 and 2-50) into one section to make participation rules easier to find and to reflect existing practice. "Generally members of the public wishing to…
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