Community Board 3 has long had a reputation for tumultuous public meetings and infighting among its 50 members.

In a tumultuous meeting here, the audience shouted and hooted, one legislator wept and votes changed at the last minute.

But in a tumultuous meeting on March 24, five of the nine school-board members voted not to renew his contract in June.

After heated confrontations, tumultuous meetings, a flood of letters, and months of negotiations, a compromise was reached.

The board's 4-to-3 vote at the end of a tumultuous six-hour meeting ushered in a period of heightened uncertainty for the city's schools.

My hatred to these tumultuous, disorderly meetings was not in the least decreased by my husband being twice seriously hurt while attending them.

Many students complained bitterly, in interviews and at a tumultuous public meeting on Nov. 2.

During tumultuous meetings they were completely uncooperative.

After a tumultuous meeting at Police Headquarters, the order came down to close Old Slip instead.

The board, when it first ordered the ban after a tumultuous meeting in July, indicated that it should take effect at the start of the 1997-98 year.