I've said many times over the years, I have a great deal of respect for the service of Walt Bivins on the Mehlville School Board. He was unmercifully attacked by the Call for enforcing reasonable limitations of time to the public comments portion of their meetings.
The Call has made no such attacks on the Fire Board for much greater restrictions. They only allow comments about listed agenda items. If a citizen wants to speak about fraud, nepotism or favoritism in hiring, this is not allowed. Also, the comments section of the meeting is after the business portion, so citizens can only comment after board action has already been taken.
Why is it OK for the fire district to limit speech during public meetings but not other public entities? Mr. William T. Milligan sponsors rather than reports on Arron Hilmer.
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