B-337 Decorum

All comments and discussions during District Board meetings shall be respectful and courteous. The District Board Chairperson will rule out of order offending commentators or disruptive speakers and require them to stop speaking immediately.

The following will be ruled out of order by the presiding Officer.

• Profanity, obscenity, and other disruptive language.

• Physical violence or threats of physical violence directed towards any person or property.

• Comments that are personal, threatening, attack others, are obscene or insulting.

• Comments that berate opposing points of view.

• Comments properly subject to closed sessions, such as those relating to personnel matters.

If any meeting is interrupted by the actions of one (1) or more persons that renders the orderly conduct of the meeting unfeasible, the person(s) may be removed from the meeting room or the podium and denied the opportunity to speak to the District Board for the duration of the meeting.

Before a person(s) is removed, the District Board Chairperson will issue a warning and request that the person(s) curtail the disruptive activity. If the behavior continues, the person(s) may be removed by a vote of the District Board based on a finding that the person is violating this Policy and that such activity is intentional and has substantially impaired the conduct of the meeting. 

If the order cannot be restored of individuals who are interrupting the meeting by removal under these rules, the District Board may order the meeting room cleared and may continue in session. The District Board shall only consider matters appearing on the agenda. Representatives of the press or other news media, except those participating in the disturbance, shall be allowed to attend any session held under this rule.