The Ottawa Police Services Board has decided not to go ahead with a plan that would move public delegations to a separate, noon-hour meeting ahead of regular board meetings, but has made other changes to how people interact with the board. ottnews
Last month, the board discussed a plan that would change how members of the public are able to address the board; including holding delegations to an hour between noon and 1 p.m. and limiting the amount of time people had to speak if more than 12 people wanted to address the board. The delegation meeting would also not be mandatory for board members to attend, but there would need to be at least four.
At that meeting, Carr proposed several changes to the plan, most notably being that public delegations remain within the agenda of normal board meetings. The changes to the procedure bylaw Carr proposed would also require that delegations submit their planned comments in writing ahead of time, to give board members a chance to read them so that they can ask questions after each delegation's presentation.
There was some discussion about changing the starting time of the meeting to make it accessible to as many people as possible. Board members settled on keeping the usual start time of 4 p.m.
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