Is there any reason why Board Minutes (for a NY town) cannot contain extras to help get things accomplished, such as Action Items (would have name, task, estimated completion date as a minimum).
We have a Who’s On First shtick at Board meetings here in Elma that’s driving us up the wall.
Can you please clarify a few details:
1) when agendas and supporting materials are supposed to be published ahead of Town and Village Planning Board and Board of Education meetings?
2) After meetings, when presentations displayed and discussed at such meetings are to be released to the public.
We see slippage here and would like to file a notification or “complaint” to ask local officials to clean things up, but we’d like to lean on the law or regulations on these points.
The East Aurora Union Free School District has switched to a new Board Doc platform.
Agenda related documents, including minutes, are no longer posted to the website. The Board Clerk’s explanation, that she does not post these items because she does not “anticipate” the Board will discuss these documents, seems to be a strange interpretation of the law.
Here is the statement I received:
“Section 103(e) pertains to documents “which are scheduled to be the subject of discussion by a public body during an open meeting.” Since we do not anticipate that these documents will be the subject of discussion during tonight’s meeting, Section 103(e) does not require that we post them in advance. “
Your thoughts?
