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Commission narrows public-comment rewrite: written comments must be provided to council and appended to minutes; prerecorded video removed
Summary
After extended debate about accessibility, abuse risk and staffing, the commission voted to remove prerecorded video from proposed charter language and to require that timely written comments be made available to council before meetings and appended to the meeting minutes for publication.
The Charter Review Commission significantly narrowed proposed changes to public-comment procedures in Section 11.05: it removed the prerecorded video provision and directed that written comments submitted in accordance with city procedures be made available to council prior to the meeting and appended to the meeting minutes for publication.
Commissioners spent more than an hour arguing competing priorities: accessibility for residents who…
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