MUNCIE, IN — A month after changes were announced in the way Muncie City Council would conduct its meetings, some local residents remained rankled this week.
One of the procedural changes announced at a city council meeting on Jan. 5 was to have citizens address the council at the beginning, rather than the end, of the monthly meetings.
So many citizens showed up to speak at a council meeting on Monday, Feb. 2, that the council didn't begin to deal with items on its published agenda for more than an hour.
The vast majority of commenters offered criticism over the meeting changes announced in January by the council's new president, Republican Jeff Green.
Local resident Rita Faulkner referred to "troubling new meeting rules that discourage public and democratic participation."
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