PORT JERVIS – A reworking of the policy on public comment at common council meetings will wait a bit longer. in the City of Port Jervis.
Fourth Ward Councilman Stanley Siegel said the original “Rules of Conduct” adopted in April were too sweeping. At a meeting earlier this month, he offered to redraft the rules.
Siegel told the common council Tuesday night they are not quite ready for council review.
“We had a discussion that the attorney needs to review it before we present it for a vote.”
Siegel cited the Bill of Rights amendments to the U.S. Constitution regarding the right to peaceful protest.
“The resolution that we had presented to us was well-written, but I think it was too strong and went beyond that simple paragraph that our forefathers had presented back in 1791.
A vote on the amended rules was to have been taken on Tuesday night. It will come at the next council meeting on June 10.
