By Dee Longfellow
The School District 205 Board of Directors sent a special communique last week to advise parents and other community stakeholders of its new public comment procedure, which will began at the Dec. 14 Board of Education meeting.
“As we work to uphold this legacy of excellence, we continue to value the voices of our fellow community members and understand that the public comment section of the Board’s business meeting is an important way for many in our community to share their perspectives with the Board of Education,” the memo said. “We would like to share an update with you regarding the public comment process at our upcoming Board of Education meetings.”
Beginning at the Tuesday, Dec. 14 Board of Education meeting, the updated public comment procedure will be in place. The details of the updated process for public comments are below, in hopes of creating clear and consistent procedures for our entire community.
Public comment process
• A numbered sign-in sheet will be available at the Board meeting for all speakers to sign up to speak prior to the start of the meeting.
• Sign-up sheets will be available starting at 6:30 p.m. for regular and special Board meetings and 5 p.m. for Committee meetings.
• Speakers will now be called by number using a random number generator application to determine the order of the public comment speakers.
• The random number generated will be visible during the Board meeting using the screen in the Boardroom.
• Once a random number is generated, the board secretary will call the speaker’s name that correlates with the number on the sign-in sheet.
This information, along with any future updates, can be found on the website at www.elmhurst205.org under Board of Education.
