Board of Commissioners Public Comment Policies
POLICY #1030
1. POLICY: The following policy applies to all members & the general public. This policy serves to establish the general policies for managing audience participation during open public meetings conducted by the Board of Commissioners.
The Board recognizes the importance & value of hearing from the constituents they represent. Therefore, the Board shall conduct its meetings in a manner that provides for a systematic & orderly public comment period at the beginning of each meeting.
The Board shall establish public comment procedures designed to specifically permit fair & orderly expression of public comment from participants who must be residents of the fire district, a district member or an authorized designee of such resident or member.
Public comment periods shall be conducted in accordance with Public Comment Procedure, which shall be readily available via the district’s website as well as in the meeting room at least 30 minutes prior to each meeting.
The Board Chair shall be responsible for facilitating the public comment period & reserves the right to:
- Interrupt or terminate an individual’s statement when it is too lengthy, personally derived, offensive, abusive, obscene or irrelevant
- Extend the comment period with concurrence of the entire Board