TRIAL ON-LINE SPEAKER CARD REGISTRATION
The Board of Education, in its desire to take more targeted Public Comment
on Agenda Items, on a trial basis, within the current times allotted for Public
Comment, is returning to it past practice of taking individual Public Comment
on most items on the Agenda (except Consent). As a result, a separate
Speaker Card (Sign In To Speak) is required to be filed by the commenter on
each Agenda Item eligible for Public Comment.
On line Speaker Card Registration (Sign In To Speak) opens at minimum 72
hours in advance for a Regular Meeting or at minimum 24 hours in advance
for a Special Meeting. Use the eComment Link to Sign In (Register) to Speak
up to one hour before the beginning of the meeting. Manual (Paper) Speaker
Cards also will be available at the meeting for completion.
Sign In to Speak, on an eligible Agenda Item, as a matter of equity, is first
registered, first called, in order of Registration whether participation is in
person or virtually, e.g. Zoom, or by audio, e.g., telephone.
For advanced pre-meeting Registration, You must establish a one time
OUSD eComment - Sign In (Register) To Speak Account providing your First
Name and Last Name and your email address. Your First Name and Last
Name, as Registered, must also show as the Participant or Profile Name on
a teleconference system (i.e., Zoom, webex, other). You will be requested to
Register the first time you use eComment - Sign In To Speak.
The Sign In To Speak System, after the one time registration, will remember
you by first name and last name associated with your email address (profile),
making it easier for you to electronically Register or Sign In to Speak on an
Agenda Item at a future OUSD legislative meeting, e.g., Board, committee,
commission.
Early pre-meeting Sign In To Speak (Registration) is urged for all - whether
you plan to attend meeting in person or view meeting via teleconference or
listen to the meeting by telephone. Names will be called in Sign In To Speak
order received.
On line Request to Speak (Registration) automatically closes one-hour before
commence of the legislative meeting. (No way to manually reopen.)
Thereafter, a Request To Speak on an eligible Agenda Item is taken in
person at the legislative meeting only via Manual Speaker Card. (If you
registered pre-meeting on line to speak on an eligible Agenda Item, please
do not re-register if you then attend the meeting in-person.) The Manual
Speaker Card, for equity, will be placed in the que behind pre-meeting
registered speakers If you registered to Speak on an eligible Agenda item,
premeeting, if attending meeting in person, when your name is called, please
walk to the Speaker's Podium and comment on the eligible Agenda item.
If you registered to Speak on an eligible Agenda Item, premeeting, if
attending meeting on line, when your name is called, please raise your hand.
Board of Education staff will match your pre-registration name with on line
profile, unmute you to speak and remute you upon conclusion.
If you wish to speak by telephone only please pre-register and enter as your
First Name (area code) and Last Name (last four digits of your telephone
number.). If you pre-registered to Speak on an Agenda item, when your
