Planning Board - 110420 Agenda Packet

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D R A F T Kim Piracci: I don’t like that motion, I think that the public should, more people should be able to speak at the second 280 meeting, if they want to. We might limit it so that there’s not a third meeting. That ends but ….. 281 282 David Blankfard: If they want a chance to speak they can only do written comments. 283 284 Kim Piracci: I don’t like that. 285 286 David Blankfard: No one knows at the beginning of each meeting if the meeting is going to run long. I think we need to 287 limit it. You get one chance and it’s at the first meeting and if you come in late then you get to write in. 288 289 Carrie Fletcher: This is a highly emotional issue for many people and I’m sure zoning and planning is going to be an 290 emotional, personal issue for a lot of people. I think that we, as public servants, should listen to them. I don’t particularly, 291 even without hearing a lot of the conversation, say that we are going to deny certain people who haven’t been at the other 292 meeting, as myself being late tonight, missed the boat and you don’t get a chance to speak. I think everyone has a right to 293 speak. I could see capping a time that we can only go before a certain time and if that doesn’t work then we’re going to 294 have to have another session and let the people speak. I think that’s our obligation. 295 296 Randy Marshall: The presumption here is that we have a public hearing, and that lots of people have signed up and if we 297 had the meeting last until everyone had a chance to speak, there would not be a second meeting. The reason for the 298 continuance is to allow us to get home at a decent hour and for everyone to have a chance to speak. It’s not to start over 299 and have a second public hearing. It’s a continuation of the first public hearing and if you continue to set it up as a second 300 public hearing, you’re just going to continue to add more and more people. It’s not that we’re discouraging anybody from 301 speaking but your opportunity to speak comes with the first meeting. If you didn’t get to speak at the first meeting and you 302 signed up then you can speak at the second continued meeting but it is still considered the one meeting, it’s just takes 303 place over 2 different evenings and is not an opportunity for more people to jump in that didn’t originally indicate they 304 wanted to speak. 305 306 David Blankfard: This is the way that the Board of County Commissioners does it so there is some precedence. 307 308 Hunter Spitzer: People who missed the opportunity to sign up at the first meeting and can’t speak at the potential 309 continuance would still have the opportunity to submit written comments, correct? 310 311 David Blankfard: That’s right. 312 313 Craig Benedict: And if they miss speaking at the neighborhood meeting and the Planning Board then they still have the 314 opportunity to speak at a public hearing in front of the Commissioners. 315 316 Perdita Holtz: We’re going to have to have tighten it up and run it more like the BOCC that people have to sign up in 317 advance to get on the list to speak. The way it was being run, anybody could sign up for the Zoom meeting and then if 318 they wanted to speak they would just raise their hand on the Zoom platform but we’re going to need to know in advance 319 how many people want to speak on each item. We’re going to need to require an advance sign-up. The Clerk’s Office 320 allows people to sign up until 3 p.m. on the day of the meeting and that’s their cut-off time. I will find out more information 321 from the Clerk on exactly how they run that so we can mimic it. 322 323 David Blankfard: Right now we have a motion on the table that says that we are looking at setting the time limit at the 324 beginning of each meeting and the people that have signed up to speak at that time will determine who gets to speak 325 during that time and who gets to speak at a subsequent meeting, the subsequent meeting will be determined by the Board 326 and between those two meetings the public can write comments. 327 328 MOTION by Randy Marshall that at the beginning of each meeting, the Board will determine when they plan to recess and 329 take a log of the number of people who want to speak and we will determine who will speak that night, the Board will 330 determine when we will have a continuance to hear the remainder of the people signed up to speak on the topic. In 331 between those two meetings anyone who is registered to speak can instead write what they want to say. The final wording 332 will be determined by Chair and Vice-Chair. Seconded by Kim Piracci. 333 334 335 12