“I think this is perfectly, exactly the wrong direction to go,” said Parker Emerson. Not everyone was happy with the decision. “Staff experience is when meetings run late into the evening or early morning hours, that can be challenging for community members with work, family and other commitments to fully participate and provide public comment and be present for council deliberations,” Pirrie said.
Commission meetings have ended at late hours as well. and four of those ended at or after midnight, according to Pirrie. Over the past 12 months, nine city council meetings adjourned after 9:30 p.m. “At its regular city council meeting on July 11, the meeting lasted more than seven hours and at the following meeting on July 25th Mayor Reece proposed changing the public comments speaker time limit for four minutes to three minutes for City Council meetings and all other Brown Act meetings hosted by the city of Claremont,” City Manager Adam Pirrie said during the staff presentation. The decision will apply to all Brown Actmeetings including the City Council and all commissions.Ĭouncil members Corey Calaycay and Jennifer Stark had requested that shortening the time for each speaker’s participation be placed on a City Council agenda after Reece brought up the idea as one way to keep meetings from stretching long into the night.
By Steven Felschundneff | Claremont City Council agreed Tuesday to shorten from four to three minutes the amount of time each person would be allowed to speak during public comment at future meetings.Īlthough the council discussed the matter, it declined a roll call vote, leaving the final decision to Mayor Ed Reece because of the long-standing tradition that the mayor runs council meetings.
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