NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Hutchinson City Council will move the public comment portion of the meetings, along with any proclamations to the beginning of those gatherings going forward, after comments from Vice Mayor Stacy Goss at the meeting on Tuesday.
"I think that when we moved to night meetings and we said that one of the metrics that we wanted to use to judge the success of night meetings is how many people attend council meetings, but then we, at the same time, moved the comment to the end of the meetings, I think that we kind of screwed up the experiment," Goss said. "It just doesn't seem like we're truly listening to what people want to say if we make them sit through an hour meeting before we allow them to speak."
The original rationale was to get through the business so that employees that had to be there all day would have to stay less time, but there was consensus to change it back.