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Sunset Beach Planning Board debates quorum, public comment and debate limits in rules review
Summary
Members reviewed a draft procedures document from the School of Government. Key disputes included whether vacancies should be excluded for quorum, notices for special meetings, roll-call votes in electronic meetings and whether speech limits should be mandatory or discretionary. Staff will collect edits and return a marked draft for legal review.
The Sunset Beach Planning Board spent the bulk of its Feb. 19 meeting reviewing a draft rules-of-procedure document supplied to appointed boards and recommended edits to ensure consistency with the town's UDO and state law.
The board focused on several high-profile items: quorum language, special-meeting notice and public-comment placement, electronic-meeting roll-call practice, and debate limits. Several members objected to bracketed options in the template and asked staff to substitute the townUDO quorum language…
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