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Board considers meeting-structure changes and updates to public-comment and electronic-communications policies
Summary
Board members debated adopting structured meeting tools from a governance training (round-robin speaking, suggested motions), clarifying public-comment procedures (intent-to-speak forms, petitions, written comments) and refining electronic communications language; staff will send monitoring reports and policy drafts ahead of meetings for review.
At a Redmond SD 2J work session, board members discussed adopting elements of a governance training (referred to as the "five rules") intended to make business meetings more efficient and talked through multiple proposed revisions to public-comment and electronic-communications policies.
Several board members expressed support for adding structure — for example, a round-robin approach that gives every board member a timed opportunity to speak and suggested motions that can be restated and…
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