CONWAY — In crafting its first public comment policy Monday, the Conway School Board went against the recommendations of the New Hampshire School Board’s Association, which suggested limiting comments to three minutes per speaker, up to a maximum of 15 minutes.
The Conway board — which has struggled with what to do when citizens, particularly those opposed to masks for children in the public schools, have dominated school meetings with lengthy comments — voted not to set a time cap for comments, though it did reserve the right to adjourn a meeting at any time.
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