From: RAandBOB <raand...@earthlink.net>
Date: April 30, 2024 at 9:12:51 AM EDT
To: Deborah Howe <deborahh...@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [LincolnTalk] Planning Board meeting tonight, 7 pm
This policy does not concern me. I am very familiar with the open meeting law since I was on the water commission for 12 years. The open meeting law requires that citizens be present during the discussion and decision making of a public body. It does not give the public any right to speak. Allowing the public to speak is at the discretion of the public body. Public hearings in contrast, are there so that the public may speak on issues . If you attend a public body’s meeting and wish to comment on the decisions they’re making, send them an email, call Tim Higgins, go to one of the meetings with the selectmen to make your opinions known. On Apr 30, 2024, at 8:36 AM, Deborah Howe via Lincoln <lincoln@lincolntalk.org> wrote:
Hi Lincoln Talkers —
Writing as a private citizen to let you know the Planning Board will be meeting tonight in person (Donaldson Room, Town Hall) and on Zoom at 7 pm. Among other issues, the Board will discuss its meeting management policy — how it orders its meetings, including how and when public comment is allowed.
Right now, it’s a new peculiarity of the PB to open public discussion before any topics are raised in the agenda, and to prohibit public comment on agenda items until the following meeting. If this policy concerns you, join the meeting (early — public comment is slated for 7:00 sharp) in person or by Zoom. Here’s the agenda link; to join by Zoom, open the agenda and click on the embedded Zoom link:
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