Monrovia : Comment Limit Criticized
The City Council took flak Tuesday over a new policy that restricts public comment at the beginning of the council meeting to five minutes.
A time for longer communications is now scheduled at the meeting’s end. Two residents blasted the policy, saying it would squelch free speech and valuable input from the community.
The council had allowed unlimited comment at the meeting’s outset, but Mayor Robert Bartlett said the policy was changed earlier this month after complaints about a speaker who took up more than half an hour at the beginning of the meeting.
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