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Committee adopts new public-comment rules requiring signups and speaker limits
Summary
The Rules & Charter Review Committee voted to adopt proposed public-comment procedures requiring signups (phone/email/in person), closure of the speaker list when the meeting is called to order, and limits of up to three speakers per agenda item and two minutes per speaker.
The Rules & Charter Review Committee voted to adopt a set of proposed public-comment procedures at its meeting, approving a package of limits and operational details intended to make public participation predictable and manageable.
Mr. Johnson, staff to the committee, read the provisions aloud: "Persons wishing to speak will provide their name, address, and agenda item topic they wish to speak to," and that signups may be made by phone, email or in person and that the "list of…
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