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Board discusses reconciling written 5-minute speaker limit with 3-minute practice
Summary
Board members discussed policy KNA after staff noted the written public-comment limit is five minutes but current practice has been three minutes; superintendent proposed sending the discrepancy to the policy committee to set a consistent practice.
Superintendent Dave noted a mismatch between the written public-comment policy and the board's current practice. "Our current policy says 5. We were doing 3," he said, and recommended sending the item to the policy committee so the board can decide whether to adopt three minutes as the standing limit or retain five minutes as the maximum while keeping flexibility at meetings.
Board members said they were comfortable with a consistent maximum while retaining the ability to reduce time at a meeting when many speakers register. The superintendent said the policy already allows reducing time and that the committee will bring a proposal back to the board.
