{"id":11160,"date":"2025-11-05T12:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:56:56","slug":"mandating-council-cell-phone-courtesy-during-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11160","title":{"rendered":"Mandating Council Cell Phone Courtesy During Meetings?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kristine Perez speaks during public comment at the 11\/3\/2025 Town Council meeting. Ms. Perez explicitly requests that the town council adopt a policy requiring all members to turn off and put away their cell phones during meetings. She argues that the public is entitled to the council&#8217;s undivided attention during the limited time they meet, noting that audience members have observed council members sending and receiving texts. Her plea is framed as a request for courtesy and respect for the constituents, urging the council to vote on the matter immediately. The Town Council did not entertain the suggestion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mandating Council Cell Phone Courtesy During Meetings\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2QhUtow3PVE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristine Perez speaks during public comment at the 11\/3\/2025 Town Council meeting. Ms. Perez explicitly requests that the town council adopt a policy requiring all members to turn off and put away their cell phones during meetings. She argues that the public is entitled to the council&#8217;s undivided attention during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11161,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions\/11161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}