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Rights of Public Comment Q: The City is holding public meetings using public facilities and staff to show plans of a developer of a former navy base. The only public participation allowed is in two methods.  One is the small group’s method, the opinions of the members of the public in these groups, may or may not be presented after the small groups have met.  The other is comment cards which are known only to

Recording publics comments in board minutes Q: To what extent must a public district board include in their monthly board of directors meeting minutes, which are available to the public, verbatim or synopsized comments made by the public at the prior month’s public board meeting? Can a district board elect not to include any or all such public comments from board minutes? Also, must letters addressed to the board from the public be included in