{"id":470212,"date":"2016-03-29T14:22:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=470212"},"modified":"2016-03-30T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:22:08","slug":"committee-to-study-public-comment-before-smith-county-commissioners-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=470212","title":{"rendered":"Committee to Study Public Comment Before Smith County Commissioners&#8217; Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/smithcounty-seal-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-462753\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/smithcounty-seal-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"smithcounty-seal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-462753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/smithcounty-seal-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/smithcounty-seal-1-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/smithcounty-seal-1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; A committee has been named to study the public comment policy of the Smith County Commissioner&#8217;s Court. At Tuesday&#8217;s meeting, the commissioners approved a motion by County Judge Joel Baker to name a panel to research what other counties are doing, as far as public comment and rules of decorum. The court&#8217;s public comment policy has come under criticism. Some say it limits the public&#8217;s access to the court. The current policy provides for 30 minutes for public discussion.  Each person gets three minutes to speak and the topic must pertain to agenda items. The committee will report back in 30 days with recommendations for any changes. The action follows a standing room only meeting last week in which some commissioners and residents called for the resignation of Judge Baker. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The committee will consist of county employees and a community citizen. The Commissioners Court voted to approve the following committee members:<br \/>\nCounty Administrator Leonardo Brown,<br \/>\nAssistant District Attorney Phillip Smith<br \/>\nPublic Information Officer Casey Murphy<br \/>\nCounty Auditor Ann Wilson or her designee<br \/>\nRecord Services Director Joseph Settanni,<br \/>\nPurchasing Director Kim Gould,<br \/>\nCarmen Gardner, executive assistant to County Judge Joel Baker<br \/>\nRichard Blake (citizen member). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; A committee has been named to study the public comment policy of the Smith County Commissioner&#8217;s Court. At Tuesday&#8217;s meeting, the commissioners approved a motion by County Judge Joel Baker to name a panel to research what other counties are doing, as far as public comment and rules of decorum. The court&#8217;s public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=470212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Committee to Study Public Comment Before Smith County Commissioners&#8217; Court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":462753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 12:36:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470215,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470212\/revisions\/470215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/462753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}