Brazos Transit District welcomes written and oral comments from the public at meetings. This form may be used if you are planning to do either. You may use this form up until two (2) hours prior to the meeting being called to order. Alternatively, individuals may register to speak or provide written comments by calling Brazos Transit District's Office at 979-778-0607. Please do not carry purses, briefcases, backpacks, liquids, foods, or any other object other than papers or personal electronic communication devices to the lectern, nor advance past the lectern unless you are invited to do so. Each speaker’s remarks are limited to three (3) minutes. Any speaker addressing the Board using a translator may speak for six (6) minutes. The speaker’s microphone will mute when the allotted time expires and the speaker must leave the podium. If you wish to submit an electronic presentation of physical (paper) documents you must do so two (2) hours before the start of the meeting. Electronic presentations may be submitted though our official sign up form. If providing physical (paper) documents at a meeting, you must provide a minimum of ten (10) copies of each page to Brazos Transit District’s Office for distribution to Board Members and staff.
Public Comment during the Board Meeting may be for all matters, both on and off the agenda, and be limited to three minutes per person. Persons are invited to submit comments in writing on the agenda items and/or attend and make comment at the Board meeting. Members of the public in attendance at any meeting of the Board shall conduct themselves with proper respect and decorum in speaking to, and/or addressing the Board; in participating in public discussions before the Board; and in all actions in the presence of the Board. Those members of the public who are inappropriately attired and/or who do not conduct themselves in an orderly and appropriate manner will be ordered to leave the meeting.
It is not the intention of the Brazos Transit District (BTD) Board of Directors to provide a public forum for the demeaning of any individual or group. Neither is it the intention of the Board to allow a member (or members) of the public to insult the honesty and/or integrity of the Board, as a body, or any member or members of the Board, or BTD employees, individually or collectively. Accordingly, profane, insulting or threatening language directed toward the Board and/or any person in the Board's presence and/or racial, ethnic or gender slurs or epithets will not be tolerated. Violation of these rules may result in the following sanctions:
1. Cancellation of a speaker's time;
2. Removal from the Board meeting;
3. Such other and/or criminal sanctions as may be authorized under the Constitution, Statutes, and Codes of the State of Texas.
The BTD Board of Directors can deliberate or take action only if a matter has been listed on an agenda properly posted prior to the meeting. During the public comment period, speakers may address matters not listed on the published agenda. The Open Meeting Law does not expressly prohibit responses to public comments by the Board of Directors. However, responses from the Board Members to unlisted public comment topics could become deliberation on a matter without notice to the public. To ensure the public has notice of all matters the Board of Directors will consider, the Board may choose not to respond to public comments, except to correct factual inaccuracies, recite existing policy in response to an inquiry or to ask that a matter be listed on a future agenda. See Texas Open Meetings Act Section 551.042.
