Jersey City Board of Education is moving to cut back public discussion at their meetings

Say Mayor Fulop, aren't these YOUR people now running things? Weren't most of these people YOUR candidates? You might want to remind them about the openness and community input you said you want this city to emulate through your examples. That isn't happening when BOE President Sangeeta Ranade smugly dismisses those objecting to the BOE move as saying hey we're just enforcing old rules because meetings can get contentious. In fact, it sounds like Ranade is more worried about the length of the meetings:

The current format of the board meetings discourages anyone who “wants to do anything other than sit in a board meeting all night,” she said.

Jesus, you signed up for the Board of Education thing didn't you Sangeeta? You knew going in meetings went long and your commitment was going to be large? Sounds us like you just want to get the meetings over ASAFP. Sure there are people who take advantage of meetings. Limit them to X amount of times speaking, not time limits on topics when you put out hundreds of pages to go over before a meeting and give people a day to pour over it. The way the BOE is already set up limits in-depth discussion and now you want to limit it more? Maybe a lesser role on the BOE might suit you Ms. Ranade until you realize YOU work FOR the citizens who'd like to speak about things as important as their children's education. A little meeting runover or  citizen criticism isn't going to kill you.