Hudson City holds public hearing on resolution to allow council members to use videoconference

The clerk opened a public hearing of the Hudson City Common Council to receive comments on a proposed resolution that would allow members of the council to participate in meetings by videoconference. “I now call the public hearing to order,” the clerk said, then read the title describing the resolution’s purpose as allowing video conferencing for council members.

The clerk said the hearing had been advertised for June 7; the transcript text around the advertisement is garbled and the year is not specified in the record. The clerk then conducted a roll call, naming President Lawrence and council members Hennepin, Kernaghan, Browning, Sarwar, Foster, Robert, Belton and Koehler and indicating they were present.

The clerk opened the floor for public comment and asked speakers to state their names and addresses for the record, noting a five-minute allowance for remarks. The transcript contains an unclear reference to a “time motion,” but no mover, seconder, or vote is recorded and no substantive motion language appears in the available text.

No members of the public spoke on the record in the transcript provided. After asking if there were any further comments, the clerk stated there would be no further comments; the transcript ends with a fragment and does not show a council vote, formal action, or next procedural step on the resolution.

Because the available transcript ends before a vote or formal disposition is recorded, it is not possible from this record to say whether the council adopted, postponed or otherwise acted on the resolution. The hearing record in the transcript is limited to the reading of the resolution title, roll call, an opening for public comment, and a statement that no further comments were received.