Clackamas County to require registration to speak at meetings February 23 2021
Move at suggestion of Tootie Smith follows multi-week inundation of calls for Commissioner Mark Shull to resign.
Clackamas County will begin requiring constituents seeking to provide public comment at Board of County Commissioners meetings to register at least two hours prior to the start of the meeting. The changes take effect next Thursday, March 4.
The move comes at the direction of County Chair Tootie Smith. Commissioners agreed to a registration process intended to provide more transparency and accountability for those joining virtually via the Zoom application. These changes follow weeks of calls for Commissioner Mark Shull to resign as well testimony in support of Shull which have taken up a significant portion of the public-comment period each week.