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Danbury council closes public hearing on proposed fee and school-bus monitoring ordinances after no public comment
Summary
At an evening public hearing in Danbury, councilors listed proposed changes to sewer and water connection fees, a new municipal school-bus violation detection monitoring ordinance, and amendments to building-permit fees. No members of the public spoke; the hearing was closed and the council moved into a Committee of the Whole.
Danbury City Council held a public hearing beginning at approximately 7:03 p.m. to solicit comment on proposed changes to several local ordinances, but no members of the public spoke and the council closed the hearing before moving into a Committee of the Whole.
The Chair read a notice listing the items available for public comment: an amendment described in the hearing record as “ordinance section 48 1 68” concerning sewer connection fees; an amendment read as “48 dash 76” concerning water connection fees; a proposed new ordinance in chapter 46, article 5, establishing municipal school-bus violation detection monitoring systems; and an amendment read as “ordinance section 6 dash 21” concerning the state building code and building permit fees. The Chair said these matters were available to the public for comment.
“My name is Peter Bizaid,” one participant said at the start of the meeting. The Chair then conducted roll call and announced there was a quorum. The Chair asked Councilman McAllister to lead the Pledge of Allegiance.
When the Chair called repeatedly for public comment, “Hearing none, at this point, I will call for a motion to close the public hearing,” the Chair said. A member moved to close the hearing; another member seconded the motion. The Chair called for the ayes and stated, “The ayes have it,” and then asked for and received a motion to adjourn to the Committee of the Whole.
The hearing record does not show any public testimony in favor of or opposed to the proposed ordinances, and the council did not take a formal vote on any of the substantive ordinance changes during the public hearing. The Committee of the Whole convened immediately following the close of the public hearing; no further details on deliberation or a schedule for future votes were announced on the record.
The transcript as read at the hearing includes the ordinance identifiers as spoken above; the council did not provide corrected or alternate citations during the public hearing, and the exact statutory citation formatting in the public record is unclear. The council may consider the items during the Committee of the Whole or at a later meeting.
