2025

The Kindred Park District welcomes and values public input during its meetings. This policy outlines the procedures for public comment to ensure that all individuals have a fair opportunity to be heard while maintaining an orderly and efficient meeting environment.

1. A public comment agenda item will be the first non-procedural agenda item at all regular meetings for the Park District.

2. To provide public comments, each individual must submit a speaker card prior to the meeting being called to order that includes:

a. the individual’s name

b. the individual’s address

3. Missing information from the speaker card disqualifies the individual from speaking at the meeting.

4. Each individual will be allotted three minutes to make comments. The individual will be notified when the three minutes have expired.

5. The public comment agenda item will be limited to a total of thirty minutes, regardless of how many individuals have submitted speaker cards.

6. Individuals will be called on to present public comments in the order that speaker cards were submitted.

7. All comments must:

a. Be pertinent to the Kindred Park District.

b. Be directed to the board as a whole.

8. Comments may not:

a. Be defamatory, abusive, harassing, or unlawful.

b. Include information that is exempt or confidential under North Dakota open records law.

c. Interfere with the orderly conduct of the meeting.

9. Individuals may not yield their allotted time to another individual.

10. Individuals unable or unwilling to speak in person may submit written comments to the Park District Secretary prior to the meeting. If received twenty-four hours before the meeting, the comments will be distributed to the board members before the meeting. Comments submitted less than twenty-four hours before the meeting will be distributed after the meeting. Any written comments submitted include the individual’s name and address.