La Grange Park Trustees Partially Adopt New Rules for Public Comments
Change in Illinois law prompts the La Grange Park Board of Trustees to discuss adoption of new rules for the public comment section of meetings.
A change in the Illinois Open Meetings Act that covers the rights of citizens to comment at public meetings, stirred a contentious debate at Tuesday night's La Grange Park Board of Trustees meeting. The change in Illinois law now states that citizens have a right to a public comment period at public meetings, but also allows public bodies like the village board to set rules covering when, where and for how long the public can address the body. The item was inserted into the board’s meeting schedule prior to the board’s discussion of its agenda items, presumably to pass the board’s proposed rules prior to a period of public comment in the meeting, so that those comments could be governed by the board’s newly set rules. In La Grange Park, …
