Kings County Water District board members hope to boost public participation at their monthly meetings by moving the start time back one hour. It will now meet at 2 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month. … The board will open the meeting asking if the public has any comment on its listed closed session items, which typically can only include personnel matters, potential purchase of property or litigation, per California’s open meetings law. Then it will go into closed session and reopen the public portion of the meeting at least 30 minutes later. The idea is that the public will know if there was reportable action after the closed session, instead of having to call the office or not knowing at all… The water district, which covers areas within Kings County including portions of Hanford, was in the hot seat last year when farmers accused board members of making decisions without their input. It was also the impetus behind the Mid-Kings River Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) implosion, after board members voted to leave Mid-Kings and start their own GSA.