College Board Public Comment

Public Comment at PVCC College Board Meetings

All meetings of the Board are open to the public and the Board welcomes public discussion of current agenda items under the agenda item, “Public Comment.” Those wishing to address the Board are required to provide their name, place of residence, and contact information on the sign-in sheet, available 30 minutes prior to the start of the meeting. Incomplete information on the sign-in sheet may disqualify the speaker from addressing the Board. 

Public Comment is intended to address only items from the current meeting agenda. The agenda is posted on PVCC’s website.

Speakers are limited to one appearance of three minutes per College Board meeting, at the discretion of the Board Chair. At the end of the three minutes, you will be asked to end your comments. 

The Board Chair may respond to the comments, may ask staff to review a matter, or may ask that a matter be put on a future agenda. 

A maximum of 10 speakers may speak at each meeting. If more than 10 speakers are signed up to speak, the time allotted for each speaker may be reduced to two minutes. Speakers are determined on a first-come, first-served basis. 

The Board requests that speakers adhere to the following guidelines:

Address comments directly to the Board as a whole.

If physically able to do so, please stand when addressing the Board. 

Give written statements and other supporting material to the PVCC College Board Liaison.

If you represent a group or organization, you may ask others present to raise their hands and be recognized. Audience members are not permitted to continue the dialogue unless they have signed up in advance. 

If you exceed your allotted time, you will be asked to end your comments.

If a speaker does not use all allocated time, the unused time may not be shared with another speaker.

Speakers are permitted one opportunity to comment during the public comment period.

Back-and-forth debate is prohibited.

Do not speak out of turn.

Persons in the audience are encouraged to raise their hands to indicate their support or opposition to speakers at the podium or any item during the meeting.

Please refrain from applause and other forms of approval or disapproval, as a courtesy to each speaker.

Signs are permitted in the meeting room so long as they are not attached to any stick or pole and do not obstruct the view of persons attending the meeting.

To allow the Board to efficiently and effectively conduct its business, each speaker must address only the Board and must not engage in speech or other behavior that disrupts the meeting. The Chair may ask any person whose behavior is so disruptive as to prevent the orderly conduct of the meeting to cease the conduct. If the conduct continues, the Chair may order the removal of that person from the meeting. 

If you wish to use a visual or audio presentation, you may do so provided the presentation is received by the College Board Liaison at least 48 hours before the meeting at which the speaker plans to speak. No revisions may be made after the presentation is submitted. 

Please note that all comments are recorded in the meeting minutes, which are public record.