Audience calls park board on meeting procedures

A county board and audience members talked about an issue that has arisen several times in county meetings in the last year-and-a-half — public involvement in county meetings.

In a nearly two-hour meeting last week, the Hill County Park Board and audience members spent more time talking about how to discuss and vote on matters than it did on actual agenda item discussions and votes.

Audience member Blanche Kellam told the board that when she bought a cabin in Beaver Creek Park, she started coming to park board meetings. She said that, as a seven-year member of the Chinook Public School Board,...