TRIAL ON-LINE SPEAKER CARD REGISTRATION
The Teaching and Learning Committee, 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 (Request To Speak) is required to be
filed by the commenter on each Agenda Item eligible for Public Comment.
On line Speaker Card Registration (Request 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
Request (Register) to Speak up to one hour before the beginning of the
meeting.
Manual Speaker Cards also will be available at the meeting for completion.
Request 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.
For advanced Registration, You must establish a one time OUSD eComment
- 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 toRegister the first time you
use the eComment - Request To Speak.
The Request To Speak System, after the one time registration, will
remember you by first name and last name
(profile) associated with your email address, making it easier for you to
electronically Register or Request to Speak on an Agenda Item at a future
OUSD legislative meeting, e.g., Board, committee, commission. Early
Pre-meeting Request To Speak (Registration) is urged for all - whetheryou
plan to attend meeting in person or
view meeting via teleconference or listen to the meeting by telephone. Names
will be called in Request 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 inperson.) 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 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
