CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – The Clarksville-Montgomery County School Board is once again considering changes to its public participation rules, including new limits on where audience members can hold signs.
This comes after several tense meetings where audience members have walked around the room with signs and voiced their frustrations with the board.
At the June 16 formal board meeting, tensions boiled over as the public was removed following repeated disruptions from some audience members. Later in that meeting, the board approved its proposed changes to public comment, reducing speaking time from five minutes to three and eliminating the option for one speaker to give their time to another…