Updated: 4:32 PM CDT May 11, 2021 Chris Gothner The Des Moines City Council approved rules Monday changing public input during meetings.Des Moines City Council members voted 6-1 to move public comment to the end of its meetings and to limit speakers to two minutes.The new rules allow no more than 20 people to provide public comment.“These are changes that are being proposed to improve the flow of the meetings,” Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie said. “We re hopeful that this helps everyone out.”Prior to Monday, an unlimited number of speakers could make public comments at the start of city council meetings.Multiple Des Moines residents spoke out against the rules during Monday’s meeting.“You re retaliating against us now for the third time by changing the speaking rules by adding speaking restrictions,” Des Moines resident Adam Callanan said.“If you find yourself asking why the public comment portion of your meetings has felt unmanageable, look in
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Coinciding with Earth Day, Des Moines officials announced Thursday that they are beginning the process to establish a climate plan that will help fulfill the city s recent commitments to drastically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Earlier this year, the city adopted some of the most ambitious city-level sustainability goals in the country, according to climate advocates and elected officials. Des Moines aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 45% between 2010 and 2030, and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Listen here! ISU s Sustainability Committee described by: Dr. Bill Gutowski, Professor of Geological and Atmospheric Science, Chair of the University Sustainability Committee and a member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007) and student members of the University Sustainability Committee Jennifer Seth, undergraduate student in Environmental Science and Aline Milach Teixeira, undergraduate student in Chemical Engineering.
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