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45 previous meeting is not on the agenda. Rosalind explained that there is an 46 upcoming announcement on the agenda in regard to this. 47 48 IV.BUSINESS OF COMMITTEE 49 50 a.The Action Committee will discuss the guidelines for providing 51 subcommittee reports and statements from the public on agenda 52 items. 53 54 John Winter explained that he wrote up draft guidelines to adopt in 55 regard to statements from the public and subcommittee reports. His 56 proposal was attached for the Action Committee’s distributed 57 materials. 58 59 John Winter proposed the following norms (as written on his 60 handout):  61 Statements from the public shall be solicited at the beginning 62 and end of each meeting (current procedure).  63 Statements from the public shall be limited to three minutes for 64 each subject (current procedure).  65 The chair may exert some discretion on enforcing these 66 procedures if (s) he deems some statement is particularly 67 relevant to an existing or future AC strategy.  68 Any AC member may ask the chair to enforce the first two 69 guidelines if they consider a statement (and/or ensuing 70 discussion) to be off-topic. 71 72 Discussion continued among the AC members in regard to agenda items 73 and oral testimony. Denise Hart brought up the previous meeting, and her 74 desire to discuss the growth of medical marijuana and hemp at the last 75 meeting. 76 77 John Winter explained that this would be an item to be discussed at an 78 agriculture subcommittee meeting, not an Action Committee meeting. 79 80 John Winter continued to go along his handout to the Subcommittee 81 Reports section. He requested the following norms:  82 Subcommittee reports shall be sent in to our Planning rep for 83 distribution to all AC members as soon as possible after a 84 subcommittee meeting (at least five days before each AC meeting).  85 Oral subcommittee reports at AC meetings should be a brief 86 summary of the written report and limited to five minutes or less.  87 Reports should be limited to the CDP Strategies assigned them: 88 official subcommittee proceedings, decisions, written documents, 89 and requests to the AC (in the form of a motion). Oral reports