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Orland Park board will shorten agenda titles, motions and presentations to speed meetings
Summary
Village staff and legal counsel proposed changing how items are read and how motions are stated during meetings so board floor time is shorter while full motion text and materials remain available online; the board discussed transparency and agreed to implement the changes without a formal vote.
Deputy Clerk Alex and Village Attorney Stillman outlined a plan for shorter agenda titles, condensed on-floor motions and briefer presentations at Village of Orland Park board meetings, saying the changes would preserve transparency while reducing meeting length.
"We are not changing the content of how we draft our items," Deputy Clerk Alex told trustees. He said the full, long-form motion language would still appear in staff reports and on the village website, and that on the dais trustees could…
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