Park Board votes to impose time limits on public comments

The Hill County Park Board voted to impose time limits on public comments at their monthly meeting this week where they also considered consolidating their committees and looked at the coming year's budget.

During the meeting, Board Member Lou Hagener presented an updated version of the board's public comments and agenda-setting policy in the hopes that it would be approved.

Board Chair Jeff Jensen said the board doesn't need that, and all he wants to change is the time limit.

Hagener's proposed policy said the chair has the discretion to limit time for public comment for the sake of practical...