Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: A potential new avenue for citizens to speak at council

Coun. Dawn Luhning sits at the May
12, 2014 executive committee meeting.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy
By Lisa Goudy


If council votes the same way as executive committee, citizens can informally address council on city matters without debate or action of council.

“This is one that I am quite excited about actually. Right now in committee of the whole, we do have some people that simply send in a lengthy letter about a particular topic or something. They just want to get up and want to speak to how they feel about something,” said Coun. Candis Kirkpatrick.

“It might be a personal issue. It might be something that is an issue with the city, but really they don’t require anything of us and … I believe that some of the things that we receive as information items now might end up here.”

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